Global Category Specialist – Global Marketing

Overview

In this role you will shape and implement the Global Marketing Procurement strategy to enable Brand Teams to deliver ambitious campaigns. You’ll partner with Global Brand Teams and Regional Procurement to align investments, consolidate demand and maximise agency value across markets and time zones. You will lead cross-regional briefs, drive digital procurement adoption and deliver measurable business impact through smarter sourcing and partnerships. This is a strategic, cross-functional role that combines vision with hands-on execution to accelerate growth for iconic brands.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive rewards and benefits package
• flexible working arrangements
• focus on wellbeing and work-life balance
• diversity and inclusion
• learning and development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Strategic partnering with Global Brand Teams to align procurement with brand priorities
• Bridge Global Brand Teams and Regional Procurement to create scale and value
• Co-lead cross-regional briefing and scoping to consolidate demand and pipeline
• Lead development and optimization of integrated agency ecosystems
• Shift agency engagement toward consolidated forward-looking workplans and pipelines
• Drive best-in-class sourcing, negotiations and contracting across spend categories
• Identify cross-regional and enterprise opportunities with Regional Procurement
• Co-create and activate category strategies with Global Category teams
• Lead Governance, Risk, and compliance across procurement activities
• Accelerate digital procurement transformation and adoption of AI-enabled tools
• Use data to inform investment decisions and improve visibility into plans
• Demonstrate A&P category leadership and contribute to Global CoE strategies
• Coordinate Global and Regional Procurement teams around shared priorities
• Leverage AOP/MIP outputs to shape budgets and delivery pipelines
• Partner with stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into actionable procurement pipelines

Key requirements

• 5–7 years global or multi-market experience in A&P procurement
• Experience in shaping and managing integrated agency ecosystems end-to-end
• Experience delivering cross-market and multi-regional programmes
• Ability to lead multi-market procurement workstreams and coordinate regional teams
• Strong strategic and commercial acumen with ability to translate data into decisions
• Strong business partnering and influencing skills across GBTs, Regions, Marketing, Finance and suppliers
• Ability to influence and lead across global and regional teams
• Proven track record in procurement and category strategy delivering measurable impact
• Financial acumen with experience in marketing planning, investment planning and value levers
• Strong leadership, communication, resilience and performance in fast-moving environments
• Strong digital and systems capability (SAP, CLM, Salesforce, Microsoft Office, Copilot)
• Experience with AI-enabled workflow technologies

• strong stakeholder management
• excellent communication and influencing abilities
• collaborative and cross-functional teamwork
• SAP
• CLM
• Salesforce

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