Head of Business Planning - Global Travel

# Job - Head of Business Planning - Global TravelLondon,EnglandFull timeJR Job Description Job Title - Head of Business Planning Location - London Please note this is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract About Diageo Global Travel Diageo Global Travel brings Diageo's international portfolio of alcoholic and non-alcoholic brands to consumers in travel retail. Travel retail represents the unique shopping spaces and duty free options active in airports and dedicated duty free sites all over the world. Global Travel also serves the airline and cruise ship community for on board purchases and in bar experiences. The business brings exclusive brand extensions and limited editions to travellers as well as in-airport experiences including luxury shop in shops and immersive pop-ups.Global Travel is a brand building marketplace, with a consumer in a different mindset, captive, shopping with a different lens to the ordinary. A showcase opportunity lets brands like Johnnie Walker reach the No.1 whisky spot. Our single malts become a rare liquid gift or treat for shoppers in transit. Travel Retail is the home of gifting Gifts for self and others, for holiday moments, festive occasions and souvenirs with a sense of occasion and place.We have recently redefined our ambition and strategy. We are crafting a future where our business leads the Total Beverage Alcohol category as the most dynamic and fastest growing in Global Travel. We aim to accelerate Diageo to become the number one partner for our customers through luxury brand building supported by our scale. We will do this by reaching more travellers, converting more of them to purchase both in store and online and thirdly increasing the value of their spend.Working in Diageo Global Travel gives you a career experience like no other, touching all four corners of the world. We are a driven, agile, diverse and truly global team, based across 17 countries with our market HQ in London. People are a key enabler to deliver our strategy, and as part of investing behind our strategy we expanding our team. Head of Business Planning becomes the strategic bridge between Marketing & Commercial - ensuring that the right investment choices are made and that strategy flows through execution. The role builds seamless alignment between Marketing and Commercial across the planning cycle so that strategy results in clear priorities, investment choices and brilliant execution. With a global, brand-agnostic lens, the role actively steers investment decisions, challenges assumptions, and enables the organisation to make smarter, insight-driven choices that maximise long-term growth. Top accountabilities: Leads the End-to-End Planning Process to Ensure Strategy Translates into Brilliant Execution Owns and governs the GT end-to-end planning framework, aligning Marketing and Sales around a single, coherent view of priorities through battlegrounds. Own the GT planning process from MBP, SBC through to JBPs and M&E Ensures strategic intent is clearly translated into a prioritised and actionable activation calendar, with defined success measures that drive high-quality execution. Continuously evolves planning tools, ways of working, and capability to strengthen learning, improve decision quality, and raise the bar on commercial excellence. Supports the Marketing Director and Customer Marketing with Data Driven Investment Prioritisation Own the end to end investment strategy for CAPEX and A&P so investments are allocated based on ROI, commercial opportunity, and by airport (RTC project) Partner with Finance and Commercial teams to evaluate business cases, track investment performance, and reallocate budget toward highest value opportunities. Ensure all investment decisions support long term brand-building and commercial outcomes Use measurement & evaluation (M&E) findings to advise and inspire changes in marketing and business plans, ensuring insights translate into tangible shifts in priorities, investment and execution. Apply findings to clearly identify what to STOP, OPTIMISE or CONTINUE, improving decision quality and performance across brand and commercial activity. Encourage adoption of a learning-led, improvement mindset, promoting constructive challenge and evidence-based adjustment to plans to continually optimise outcomes. Experience & Capabilities Required: Highly proficient with data and numbers, with strong analytical skills and capable of spotting patterns and opportunities across multiple data sources. Exceptional stakeholder management, with a track record of building credibility, fostering trust, and shaping alignment across complex, cross-functional teams. Ability to influence decisions without formal authority, aligning stakeholders through clarity of thinking, evidence-based challenge and trusted partnership. Strong critical thinking underpinned by insight, using commercial, category, shopper, consumer and trade data to build priorities, unlock opportunities and improve performance. Deep understanding of commercial operations, with the ability to diagnose what drives effectiveness and efficiency and to influence the optimisation of key growth drivers and activation plans. Excellent planning and organisational skills, capable of running multiple projects and collaborators within tight timelines.Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to handle 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 can expect to be encouraged 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, mindsets, 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. We build our brands and invent new ones as we craft the next generation of celebrations globally.If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers - the brands we're building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you'll collaborate with talented thinkers, leaders, and makers from all corners of the world. Together, you'll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you'll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we'll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. Primary Location: London,England