Job Description

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Lead, GC& NEA Cluster

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. 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 our Supply Chain and Manufacturing 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 Role

The GC& NEA Cluster IBP Lead role is a key market role where he/she will lead and support the GC/NEA IBPs while acting as one of the markets IBP Lead. The person maintains a management and leadership role to ensure the Integrated Business Planning is managed and delivered in line with the Diageo requirements. The role interacts with senior leaders within the market and supports the leadership team by ensuring timely decision making in response to changing business plans. He/she will also facilitate and support regional performance and insights to the APAC+GT IBP director to support the regional delivery.

Within the market the role of the IBP lead is ensure sufficiency in the top and bottom line where gaps between the latest estimate are clear. This will come through in a holistic understanding of the E2E business process and early identification of risk and opportunities that will enable Diageo to come up with the right gap closing options, decision making and action plans, in addition to driving value through effective partnership with commercial, marketing and the GM to ensure robust execution of the business plan and joint value creation through the IBP process.

In addition, they are also accountable to coordinate and facilitate the monthly IBP process with Marketing, Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning and Logistics, to deliver the service, inventory, forecast accuracy/bias volume plan, NSV, innovation and cost savings.

• They will lead all the meetings within the IBP Cycle and Weekly S&OE meeting.
• They will be ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard. Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation.
• They will ensure the continuous change management and elimination of parallel processes that hinder the effectiveness of the IBP Meetings and Decisions.

Top Accountabilities:

• Accountable for ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard through the PMR, DMR, SR and MBR for all the markets under GC/NEA Cluster
• Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation.
• Facilitates IR Review with Finance, including driving the agenda, focus and level of escalation.
• Manages the monthly reconciliation cycle and is tasking the development and alignment of key decisions and gap closing scenarios.
• Coordinates the delivery of the overall business plan to deliver its objectives by combining the IBP plan with business activity and key drivers. Influences decision focus and executive alignment.
• Supports business performance management through exception-based root cause and escalation.
• Delivers key IBP performance metrics to the standard required.
• Full integration with finance to deliver a single business plan, with clearly identified gaps and actions.
• Works with Demand and Finance to facilitate decision and actions in response to changes in business assumptions and plans.
• Ensures the effective coordination if the monthly S&OE cycle and related meetings, including process implementation and management coordination.
• Is seen by the business as an extension of the executive team with clear influence and access.
• Can prioritise the management agenda, in a way that ensures trust in escalation and focus. Can present clearly defined decisions, including scenarios.
• Has the ability to work within the dynamics of a leadership team.
• Supports the category process with pro-active integration as needed.
• Drives process and tool enhancement, and advanced design foundations. Uses business tools and process, with resistance to informal workarounds.
• Drives continuous improvement using established process methodologies, including formal assessments, the Diageo Playbook, and formal meeting review, as well as their role as a business leader and influencer.
• Prepare value adding visual information and recommendations to support business planning and decision making. This includes conforming to Diageo standards for reporting and presentation, and the ability to clearly show an audience what is important when presenting information. Includes the ability to add clear and meaningful narration to visual presentations and the use of appropriate visual techniques (such as graphs and images) to maintain interest and focus.
• Develop and design (or support the development and design) of information management processes (such as Business Intelligence reporting or dashboards) to ensure they deliver business value and focus.
• Influence business executives to make changes to their plans by providing insight and support as needed based on information developed through the IBP process.
• Articulates insights and outcomes in a way that can lead to an agreed executive decision / outcome.
• Support business executives in delivering their business objectives through the preparation of plans and scenarios as needed, the reporting of key information and exceptions, and the completion of analysis and review of past performance and future.
• Takes ownership and accountability for the business planning / budgeting cycle on behalf of the Market executive team and coordinates the activity to deliver a formal business plan / budget.
• manage the delivery of strategic plans to support business objectives in response to changing market and business requirements where accountable. This includes delivering to agreed plans and managing change and risk.
• Understand the key components of financial reports, including related metrics in a way that allows the appropriate review of financial numbers to identify areas of concern that might require review and explanation, and to bridge key gaps between planned and current performance.
• Prepares and presents decision recommendations into appropriate IBP reviews, clearly articulating options, and impact in terms of volume, value, and resource requirements, and have developed a trusted position within the team to ensure appropriate support.
• Builds the capability and talents of the GC/NEA market IBPs.

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities

Previous Successful Experience:

• Having directly worked with senior business leadership.
• Has practical experience of Demand Analytics, to analyse demand performance and trends, marketing, and sales activity impact (including pricing), and reach conclusions on what that might meant about current and future demand plans.
• Has practical experience of IBP in a similar role and / or business, which can be used to support the current role and challenge?
• Can manage an appropriate change management process to ensure market adoption of IBP, using Diageo principles, processes, and resources, as well as their own skills, capabilities, and position.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in IBP/S&OP
• First hand planning experience in IBP, S&OP, S&OE, Demand Planning.
• Has developed and successfully implemented strategies and S&OP programs.

Skills/Capabilities:

• 12+ years in Broad-base supply chain planning and demand forecasting experience in a CPG company
• Growth Mindset
• Passion for data and a performance culture.
• Very strong analytical skills.
• Ability to build organization on capability and growth
• Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to foster and maintain strong working relationships and influence at all levels of the organisation. At ease working effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders and business cultures.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written combined with the ability to engage effectively at all levels in the organisation.
• Digital dexterity. Previous experience (and hunger to learn) on advanced planning tools, digital control towers, BI, etc.
• Critical Thinking and robust problem-solving ability.
  

Working with Us

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.

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

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 the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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Taipei

2026-08-11