**Job Description :** **Job Title: Commercial Capability Lead** **Level: L5** **Reports To: Business Effectiveness Director** **Location: Lagos** **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 outstanding people from all over the world, you’ll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating. **About the Function** Our Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and ambitious markets where they standout. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year. We’re operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you’ll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We’ll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realise your fullest potential. **Role Responsibilities** The role is responsible for capability build of internal Diageo and the 3rd party sales resources at Distributors or third party level Develop a well-rounded capability vision and strategy that underpins an advantaged Route to Consumers in West and Central • Inspire the commercial organisation around the capability vision for W&C and ensure the sales leaders drive and implement the plan and target improvements required • Develop & align the W&C Commercial Leadership team around the annual Commercial Capability Programme that creates focus and a step changed performance against the capability roadmap • Partner with Global and engage externally with subject matter experts to ensure that all solutions are “fit for purpose” for the W&C market and RTC model; content areas will focus on License to Sell, License to Coach, Distributor development, and Leadership development. • Training/facilitation support, predominantly ‘train the trainer’ model **Experience / skills required** + 12+ years in senior commercial roles within multinational companies including field sales and commercial capability + Strong commercial experience and skills around building capability and developing commercial teams – passionate about building high performing teams & can clearly articulate what a strategy into great execution looks like + Ability to move between strategic thought leadership and operation/project delivery detail as well as an ability to manage and influence a range of in-country and regional collaborators + An individual who understands how to get things done has the ability to influence across a broad network of the organisation – there is some ‘thinking’ involved’ but much of this will be about simply ‘decide’ and ‘act’ + Proven track record of performance delivery, and leading ground-breaking change • Standout colleague and team coach + Able to identify and understand both the employees and the business needs and drive the vital capability interventions + Needs to be able to translate strategy into execution + Continuous improvement mind-set Ability to move between strategic thought leadership and operation/project delivery detail, as well as an ability to manage and influence a range of local and global collaborators **Flexible Working Statement:** Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one. **Rewards & Benefits Statement** We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly driven Rewards and Benefits package **Diversity statement:** 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, attitudes, 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. **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Lagos HQ **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-02-21 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 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 people 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. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. 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