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Retail Development Manager, Global Travel

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

Global Travel (GT) at Diageo is one of the most dynamic markets, engaging with over 1.9 billion international travellers annually. We are a diverse, entrepreneurial, and agile business with a redefined ambition and strategy to lead Spirits as the most dynamic and fastest-growing category post-pandemic.

With our market HQ in London, we operate across 19 countries, boasting over 29 nationalities among our team. Our unique channels include duty-free sales in travel retail through airport shops, border shops, onboard airplanes, cruises, and international ferries. Global Travel Retail offers our brands visibility to millions daily. Travelers are often more open to exploration, providing us with opportunities to introduce new products.

Our marketers play a central role by shaping key consumer and shopper insights into market share-winning brand plans that drive growth. They combine creative flair with strategic consumer insight, commercial acumen, and strong project management skills to deliver impactful brand plans globally.

We aim to double the size of the Spirits Category in Global Travel, expand our luxury business significantly, transform our Digital and E-Commerce capabilities, and become Diageo's leading channel for retail activations. If you want to grow within this unique international environment and help shape a high-growth business, read on...

Role Responsibilities:

Deliver our retail transformation plan in Global Travel Retail to ensure Diageo brands are the most visible and engaging in the channel.

Proactively manage retail development CAPEX budget and conduct critical analysis for key activities to ensure value maximization for Diageo.

Transform Diageo's luxury brand presence in Global Travel Retail to help build luxury brands ahead of the competition.

Integrate our physical spaces with our brand ambassadors to create amazing, seamless shopper experiences across Global Travel Retail.

Partner with the Brand Manager to develop iconic permanent retail installation designs for Diageo brands.

Experience / skills required:

Excellent project management, design and stakeholder management skills.

High resilience & positive attitude – able to build powerful relationships and work collaboratively within a cross-functional remote team.

Problem solver & solution-based team player who can deal with ambiguity & adapt quickly.

High attention to detail.

Proven track record of delivering winning retail concepts at point of purchase that win market share and grow brands.

The ideal candidate will have experience in retail design and implementation in luxury branded environments across multiple channels and markets.

Proven ability to build relationships and work collaboratively internally and externally with good influential and negotiation skills.

Evidence of working comfortably in a highly ambiguous environment at pace, balancing multiple projects and stakeholders is a major plus.

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we’ll work together so that you’re supported from day one.

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

Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities

On site gym or subsidised gym membership

Contributary pension scheme

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family

On site nursery or vouchers

Annual bonus of circa 15% of your base salary (dependent on performance)

Share options

28 days’ vacation per annum plus bank holidays

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 the next level 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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