Hear from Diageo Commercial Graduate Mahlah Catline

Interested in taking on a role as a Commercial Graduate at Diageo?

Start a Commercial Sales career with some of the most iconic brands in the world. Taking iconic, timeless brands like Baileys, Guinness and Smirnoff and finding them new generations of shoppers, new untapped markets, new reasons to be purchased, and new places to be sold.

Diageo is welcoming and supportive

Diageo Commercial Graduate, Mahlah Catline, says: "Diageo has been welcoming and supportive, the company makes great efforts to be inclusive and as someone that identifies as non-binary and trans, making sure I work for a company that values inclusivity is one of my top priority. Diageo's efforts towards diversity and inclusion are definitely felt within the office culture at every level, and it's an intrinsic part of Diageo's purpose."

Working with iconic brands

As part of the Commercial Sales Graduate Programme graduates are immersed in the sales process from the beginning - spending time building relationships with Diageo partners and working with customers to improve sales. Graduates are responsible for ensuring Diageo's brands are successfully promoted, readily available and well presented to anyone who wants to buy them.

Enjoying an opportunity to excel

During the graduate programme there's an opportunity to excel in areas across Diageo's Commercial Sales teams such as Account Management, Customer Marketing and Customer Activation. Discover everything about Diageo's brands, competitors, the market and customers.

Diageo believes in fostering a culture of continuous learning where every day presents an opportunity for growth, development.

The graduate programme offers a combination of formal training, mentoring and hands on learning with the wider European Cohort. This helps develop a strong foundation of leadership skills, a deep understanding of Diageo's operations - supporting a great feeling of empowerment by the end of the programme to follow various career paths within the organisation.

From the beginning, graduates work on projects that develop and improve skill sets. Graduates help shape the future of Diageo's brands and business by driving growth, all whilst building a global network of relationships that supports a great career, both now and long into the future.