Description
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Location: Hamburg
Contract terms: Permanent
About us
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – celebrating life, every day, everywhere – plays an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.
At Diageo, character is everything. So, if you share our sense of adventure, you’ll have the chance to learn a huge range of skills and fields and build an exceptional career with us.
About the role
In this role you will become a key partner to the commercial teams for executional performance and deliver quality insights on sales effectiveness. We are looking for someone who can spot opportunities to drive commercial performance and win at the point of purchase.
This role involves generating and presenting monthly performance reports with actionable insights to field sales leaders, conducting market co-visits and delivering input to business meetings. The core of your role will be to identify and address performance gaps, set and track commercial critical metrics while continuously improving our commercial processes and data delivery throughout the organization.
Your key responsibilities
Market Insight and Performance Management
1. Generate and present a detailed monthly report on performance, including actionable insights to enhance performance and showcase the best approach.
2. Conduct market co-visits with the sales team for at least one day per month to identify and understand operational challenges.
3. Present monthly highlights of top execution examples from sales representatives, along with notable competitor activities.
4. Collate competitor information from the market, providing insight and examples to marketing and commercial teams.
5. Collaborate with the analytics team to create and maintain a monthly reporting schedule for market leaders, ensuring markets have the relevant reports and information as the need arises.
6. Provide timely and comprehensive input for monthly demands reviews, supporting the commercial narrative with market-specific progress updates, attending meetings where necessary.
7. Establish a feedback loop with the learning & development team to communicate capability needs and suggest necessary learning modules to support commercial performance from onboarding through to ongoing knowledge enhancement.
Target Setting and KPI Monitoring
8. Accountable for target setting as part of our sales incentive plan aligned with market goals and strategy, monitoring performance, and compiling all bonus metrics for field sales and field sales managers on a regular basis.
9. Collaborate closely with Customer Marketing Managers and Category Development on optimizing commercial activations with our customers, based on insights from the field.
10. Hold regular meetings with Sales leads to report on performance identifying gaps and opportunities in execution.
11. Participate in sales team meetings as required to analyze upcoming activation plans against performance targets.
System Management
12. Partner with Technology Product Owner to ensure that necessary commercial tools are functioning and capturing data correctly for sales teams.
13. Work closely with Data Leads to ensure systems are accurately updated in line with individual targets, market territory setups, brand priorities and any other market-led changes impacting system configuration.
14. Identify and train market leads as ‘system super users,’ ensuring training is current and providing feedback for additional e-learning support as needed.
About You
15. Experience working in or with commercial frontline sales teams.
16. Strong analytical skills with proven experience in recognizing opportunities through data and translating to actionable commercial execution.
17. Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to influence partners at all levels.
18. Driven by results, focused on delivering tangible business outcomes.
19. Project Management skills
20. Adaptable teammate who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
21. Strong computer literacy, with notable experience in Excel.
22. Salesforce knowledge, a plus
23. Fluent in German and English
Our Offer
24. An inclusive company culture that puts employees and their development first
25. A competitive salary with bonus and many benefits that suit your lifestyle
26. An industry leading parental leave policy
27. …and of course, THE best colleagues!
We know that for Diageo to thrive and 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.
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Don’t let anything stop you from applying!
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Hamburg
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-08-08