Africa Business Analyst

Africa Business Analyst
Location: 1HQ, London
Fixed Term Contract until 31 December 2026
Closing Date: 10 April 2026

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:

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

This role is responsible for partnering with IBP & Demand Planning teams  on the embedding of Integrated Business Planning strategies and priorities such as Volumes Management, Forecast Accuracy and Bias as well as other Key Performance Indicators.

The analyst supports the delivery of the Planning CoE operating strategy to deliver short and long term business objectives, by embedding streamlined processes and sustained data management.

Ultimately the key role will be to provide analytical leadership and storytelling across these areas.

The core and overarching indicators relating to this role are successful implementation and maintenance of Demand Planning & IBP analytical requirements across the region. You will work across multiple areas of focus and engage with relevant stakeholders regionally & globally. You will have huge freedom to succeed and have the opportunity to use analytical creativity to support delivery of end goals.

Creating presentations and storytelling to multiple stakeholder groups sets this role apart from typical analyst or reporting roles. Creating presentations to drive decisions, solutions and engagement is part of the role.

Experience / skills required

• To be successful in role you will have a customer centric mind set internally and externally to Diageo.

• It is essential that you have systems experience within supply chain optimization platforms (ERP / SAP APO / Advanced Excel & Power BI).

• You will be passionate about decomplexifying problems and providing simple solutions

• Baseline understanding of the end-to-end Supply Chain Planning processes; Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Inventory Planning, Conversion, Logistics, Procurement and Customer Service

• Demonstrated proficiency in statistics and/or forecasting methodologies with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts

• Strong analytical, organizational and decision making skills

• Good communication skills – verbal, written and presentation.

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.

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 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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