Marketing Graduate Programme, Diageo

2024

Salary not provided

Entry level

Dublin

Alcoholic beverage company

Job no longer available

Alcoholic beverage company

1001+ employees

B2CRetailFoodManufacturing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Entry level

Dublin

1001+ employees

B2CRetailFoodManufacturing

Company mission

To be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

On the qualification side, you’ll need to have acquired or be expecting to obtain an academic degree and be graduating in 2024 or within the last 5 years
You must be proficient in English and our graduate opportunities require you to 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
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 the job involves

Our Marketing teams 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
On this rotational programme, you’ll get to experience different roles with a focus on supporting the growth of both our global and local products
You could have an opportunity to excel in areas such as Brand Marketing, Culture, Media & Digital, Customer Activation and Shopper Planning & Activation
Through working on iconic and innovative brands you will be inspired to excel and build the foundations of your Marketing and Commercial Capability
These foundations will help you to advance at an accelerated pace, where you’ll be ready to specialise in an area of Marketing within Diageo after the programme
Across your graduate programme, you will have a combination of formal training, mentoring and hands on learning with the wider European Cohort
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
From the beginning you’ll be working on projects that will develop and improve your skill set
You’ll help shape the future of our brands and business by driving growth, all whilst building a global network of relationships that will support your career, both now and long into the future.

Application process

Applications are on a rolling process, and we will close roles when we find our graduates for September 2024
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
Closing date: 29th October 2023

Our take

Multinational beverage company Diageo was the result of a merger between Guinness and Grand Metropolitan, a leisure and property conglomerate, in 1997. Spearheaded by then-Guiness executives Anthony Greener and Philip Yea, the merger sent stocks skyrocketing and by December of the same year, Diageo was listed on the London Stock Exchange.

As the owner of many of the global leaders in alcoholic beverages (think Ciroc, Smirnoff, and Tanqueray), Diageo has made a number of savvy acquisitions and sell-offs, expanding its portfolio beyond Europe and into the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.

Over the past decade, however, it has had to face the rise of craft and independent brewing, with companies like Brewdog becoming new competitors. Rather than acquiring these craft beer companies, Diageo has focused on branding Guinness in a way that fits the craft mould. This involved initiatives like The Brewers Project.

During the early 2020s, Diageo also weathered an alcohol sales decline but has bounced back with a renewed focus on cold brew coffee liqueurs and Guinness blends, as well as further acquisitions that have included that of actor Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin.