Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the team:

BC&I team support the creation and complete the CCV Innovation & Brand Change and productivity project pipeline. These are key areas that will deliver the growth of the business and the operating profit of the business.BC&I team support the Business to improve Diageo competitive advantage, by developing new products, setting global quality requirements and driving sustainability across the organization. When it comes to the supply chain, there are three connected I&BC processes:Innovation process: partnering with Marketing to create and develop our future products.Brand Change process: re-energising existing Brands to adapt to changing consumer needsResearch & Development (R&D): delivering breakthrough Brand and Category growth and creating a driven technical advantage. This is locally carried out through a Third Party Manufacturing network. By bringing to bear on local producers to complete end to end product launches while accepting the Diageo Global Opex procedures & SOP 2030 guidelines.Project management of productivity projects along the E2E supply chain to support or productivity commitments.

About the role:

As the CCV Brand Change & Innovation Analyst focus on Continuous Improvement & Productivity, you will be responsible for successfully delivering agile technical solutions to respond to the business strategy and needs, driving productivity agenda on both imported and local activities across the entire portfolio as to re-invest in Diageo Brands growth; This by ensuring governance, sustainability and product compliance processes are respected within the end to end supply chain & business projects.

Role Responsibilities:

The role will need to lead the BC&I processes from liquid and pack design to commercialization and production phases, overseeing that all due diligence is conducted, that risks are handled and shared with key collaborators and that COGs are developed to achieve the best quality and cost.The role is responsible for engaging and managing all key collaborators such as Brand Technical Centers, R&D, Marketing and Innovation leads, copacking manufacturers in markets and at a global level.Provide functional leadership for Innovation, brand redesigns and Brand Value Engineering projects that support the delivery of CCV’s ambition.Full program ownership and leadership of supply’s delivery programs from Gate 1 through to 90 days post-launch in full and on budget while hitting cost of goods targets and maintaining quality.Provides supply input and commercial grounding during project development phases, driving resolution of commercialization hurdles that may arise and managing regular project communications to Supply and Demand project sponsors, technical operations and the broader supply community.Nurtures and builds exceptional relationships with collaborators and decision makers in demand and throughout the Supply organization (both CCV and Global).Applies expert project management skills to develop and manage project timelines, address both technical and resourcing challenges and ensures risk profiles and mitigation plans are developed and driven for each project. Ensures projects are delivered on time and quality first time right. Ensures new products are correctly set up in our planning, replenishment, demand and commercial systems by working closely with customer service and data teams.Conduct the technical development of packaging components inclusive of creating, routing, and approval of specifications.The role needs to understand the end-to-end supply chain, the commercial implications and provide timelines and data to all the internal departments and find the best supply solution that will take into account the cost and the speed of execution working with the decision support teams to develop the argument and value chains. The role will need to help prioritize the projects and tasks, influencing the key collaborator to guarantee execution is focused and quick.Provide monthly critical metrics for Global reporting and apply RCPS and project learning sessions to implement corrective actions and introduce processes to improve performance.

Financial Responsibility:

Innovation has the objective of being 20% of the NSV growth in the next 5 years.Collect the information vital to determine the COGs of projects working with procurement, technical, co-packers, Diageo plants and tax and finance.Manage risks by applying “underwrites” forms and risk assessment tools following the World Class Commercialization procedure

Leadership Responsibility:

Reports to the Head of Brand Change & Innovation, CCVCCV Key Stakeholders: CCV Exec, Head of Innovation and Marketing category leads, finance.Global Supply Key Stakeholders: Brand Technical Centres, regulatory, customer collaboration, marketing innovation and brand teams, co-packers, supply sites, suppliers, finance, design agencies, COE MOVE, PLAN, SOURCE, Shared service centresExternal key Stakeholders: Senior management and technical teams at co-packers/suppliers.Strategic and functional leadership to drive Innovation, brand change and other Supply programs

Experience / skills required:

Proven Project management experience and skills.Basic SAP knowledge related to material configuration and creation.Exceptional influencing and collaborator leadershipskillss.Ability to challenge status quo and embrace the agility attitude in everything carried.Experience in manufacturing and having a technical background is an advantage.Experience in new products development and quality assurance from either consumer goods or pharmaceutical industries is an advantage.Procurement & finance acumen will be neededFluent English and Spanish are required.Availability for travelling across Central America, Caribbean and Venezuela (15% of time)

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

Panama City

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-07-17