Marketing & Innovation Director

Job Description : Who are we? From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of ambitious possibilities. With iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Guinness Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Don Julio, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of ambitious, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating. Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future. Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. What will your role be? Our Marketing & Innovation Director is a highly influential leader on our Indonesian Leadership team, focused on delivering breakthrough performance in market and set the strategic growth objective through transformational marketing strategy. Reporting to the General Manager for the market, our Marketing & Innovation Director has full scope from consumer planning and innovation through to brand execution in market. Leading a broad team, you will be responsible for enabling performance and nurturing high potential within the team to foster a collaborative and ambitious culture driven to deliver marketing excellence in market. What does this role look like for you?

• Championing the consumer voice, leading internally from planning through to execution of our brands in market, including leading the annual planning cycle in alignment with market, regional and global objectives – ensuring the local consumer is at the heart of all key strategic initiatives;
• Lead the local market category and portfolio strategy, stretching across Beer, International Spirits and leverage the locally produced Spirits portfolio to accelerate growth in critical win areas;
• Co-own P&L with the broader Executive Leadership team in market, with a specific focus on driving market and value share;
• Lead a team of 8, inspiring a culture of experimentation, speed and agility, while providing opportunities to growth high potential talent; and
• Partner with regional and global teams to lead the Innovation Strategy and execution into market.

What will you bring to the table?

• Significant experience within an FMCG or Beverages environment, ideally with a significant number of years’ experience within a multinational environment;
• Extended leadership experience, not only leading your own direct team but influencing and leading cross functional teams to delivery;
• Proven experience in leading marketing transformation and accelerating brand growth through innovative marketing practices, rooted in the heart of consumer insights;
• Ideally, some level of digital experience – meeting consumers where they are today in an online world;
• High levels of communication, influence and collaboration soft skills; and
• Strong leadership experience, inspiring exceptional performance and fostering an engaged and motivated culture.

What are the benefits? We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision. You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy. Our commitment to inclusion and diversity: We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings. Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying. At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture. In order to ensure we’re supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 8th March 2024. Worker Type : Regular Primary Location: Jakarta Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date : 2024-02-16