Job Description

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 the depth and breadth of an organisation to be set up for a career to be proud of, you are in the right place. 

Look no further than our Southern Europe Commercial Sales & Marketing Graduate Programme. The southern Europe Market is made up of France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal. In our 3-year Graduate Programme you will have the opportunity to work in Spain, France, and Italy. This 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? 

Start date: September 2025.

Over the three-year rotation programme, you’ll have an opportunity to gain experience in exciting specialisms/roles 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 by August 2025 or within the last 5 years. 

You must be proficient in English as well as at least one of Spanish or French. You must hold a full clean valid driver’s license and have held your license for 12 months to be eligible for a company car. For our graduate opportunities you must also be 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 critical capabilities for our Reserve teams. These are the people managing our Exclusive and Prestige portfolio of brands such as Don Julio Tequila, Johnnie Walker and Tanqueray 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 Commercial and Marketing Graduate Programme could be the best decision you’ve ever made.

Join us and you can also expect to receive a highly competitive salary, along with an annual bonus opportunity and industry leading benefits package.

Application details

We have several graduate opportunities across the business. For the best chance of being successful we recommend applying for one programme as soon as possible. We recruit on a rolling process, meaning that we will close roles when we have received enough applications to fill our 2025 graduate roles.

NB: Pymetrics is the first stage of the application process for all of our Early Career’s programmes at Diageo and after completion your result will be used for all applications that require it within a one-year period.

Please note that our assessment centres this year will be held between December and February, so, you will hear from us closer to the time if you have successfully reached this final stage. We appreciate your patience.

Interested, but want to learn more?

The Early Careers team will be hosting a series of insight and coaching events as well as live chats over the coming months, and we want to hear from you! For more info and to register today visit: https://meetandengage.com/diageoearlycareers

Worker Type

Graduate

Primary Location:

Madrid

Additional Locations :

Paris

Job Posting Start Date

2024-10-01