Job Description:
Commercial Sales & Marketing Graduate Programme, Southern Europe 2024

Southern Europe Locations: Madrid, Turin, Athens

Closing date: 19th November 2023

Diageo graduates have the best of all worlds. Our hands-on, accelerated learning programmes are perfect for people who are curious and have an ability to learn. If you want to gain depth and breadth of an organisation to be set up for a career to be proud of, you’re in the right place.

Look no further than our Southern Europe Commercial Sales & Marketing Graduate Programme. With the potential for opportunities across Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy, this two-year programme has an exciting workplace learning approach that means you will spend your days right at the heart of an enormous global organization.

Who are we?
- Diageo is one of the world’s leading producers of premium drinks. We have an outstanding collection of over 200 brands, old and new, large, and small, global, and local - that are enjoyed in more than 180 countries around the world.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to our purpose which values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality, or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive, 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.

Join our Graduate programme and support us in delivering our '
- Society 2030: Spirit of Progress
' agenda—a 10-year action plan to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world!

How does the programme work?

Over the two-year rotation programme, you’ll have an opportunity to gain experience in exciting specialisms within Commercial Sales and Marketing and develop your leadership skills.

In our Commercial Sales rotations you will take iconic, timeless brands like Baileys, Tanqueray and Johnnie Walker and find them new generations of shoppers, new untapped markets, new reasons to be purchased, and new places to be sold. You’ll be immersed in the sales process from the beginning. You’ll spend time building relationships with Diageo partners and working with customers to improve sales. You’ll be responsible for ensuring our brands are successfully promoted, readily available and well presented to anyone who wants to buy them.

In our Marketing rotations you will play a big role in ensuring our brands live and breathe their purpose and we remain at the heart of celebrations everywhere. You’ll help create compelling and powerful stories to make our existing brands even stronger, and perhaps even launching new ones. Developing creative platforms that will be activated all over the world, you’ll use your creativity, vision and pioneering spirit to bring our brands to life.

Throughout the programme, you’ll have a combination of formal training, mentoring and hands on learning with the wider European Cohort. From the beginning you’ll be working on projects that will develop and improve your skill set. This will help you gain a strong foundation of leadership skills, a deep understanding of Diageo's operations and feel empowered by the end of your programme to follow various career paths within our organisation.

Who are we looking for?
- On the qualification side, you’ll need to have acquired or be expecting to obtain an academic degree and be graduating in August 2024 or within the last 5 years.

You must be proficient in both English and Spanish, with an additional proficiency in Italian, Greek or Portuguese being beneficial. You must hold a full clean valid driver’s license and for our graduate opportunities you must be mobile and prepared to relocate geographically during the programme.

You’ll need to be a curious, flexible, self-motivated team-player who loves to turn ideas into action and someone who shows integrity, respect for others and, above all, a passion for learning something new every day.

We are at an exciting journey where we are exploring on critical capabilities for our “Reserve Teams”; these are the people managing our Exclusive/Prestige portfolio of brands such as Don Julio Tequila, Ciroc Vodka, and Talisker Whisky, among others. We are looking for future leaders to grow this incredible portfolio of brands, and we are particularly open to exploring profiles that have a luxury industry background or a clear passion in this sector.

Most importantly we ask you to be you. Come as you are, with your own ideas and ambitions, and let's celebrate your talent and empower you to reach your fullest potential.

What are the rewards?
- With everything you can learn here, and the long-term opportunities we have to offer, the Marketing Graduate Programme could ju