Job description
Diageo was created in 1997 but its business is built on the principles and foundations laid years before by giants of the industry – Arthur Guinness, John Walker, Elizabeth Cumming and many more. Today, Diageo is an extraordinary leader in beverage alcohol, producing an outstanding collection of over 200 brands and leading the top two largest spirit brands in the world, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff and 20 of the world’s top 100 spirit brands. Its portfolio also includes Crown Royal, J&B, Buchanan’s and Windsor Whiskies, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness.
- Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver daring and innovative talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting accelerated career path for people which fuels their development. This will include ongoing collaboration with Category and Functions HRBPs across Global Supply Chain & Procurement.
- Lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda for Shieldhall site and contribute to the broader plan for Scotch Category – demonstrating data and analytics to create solutions that result in hard-working and radical performance, delivers cost efficiencies and injects the right reinvestments.
- Drive Inclusion and Diversity agenda tailored to Shieldhall across all HR levers (talent, reward, culture, learning, etc) that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feel valued for their uniqueness and are able to improve their impact.
- Support the development of high performing teams, coaching line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance culture to enables outstanding performance and fulfilling employee experiences collaborating with HR shared service teams and our Centres of Excellence.
- Instill a continuous learning culture throughout the organisation ensuring employees have access to stretching experiences and great learning content that fuels constant growth in their capabilities and our business performance. Partner with Global Capabilities and site Capability Manager in pursuit of this.
- A highly developed curiosity to understand what drives the business and how the varying agendas across each function and business area contribute towards driving the Category forward
- Partnering with and coaching business leaders to be able to contribute through seeing each scenario through the lens of both the business objective and how the people strategy drives and facilitates this
- Successful collaboration and influencing across a variety of collaborators at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.
- Highly conceptual – is able to join the dots and paint a picture that makes sense and influences the business
- Deep understanding of organisational design principles and how to create principles for each team to drive growth/functional progression
- Change and project management skills (including influencing change)
- Ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect
- Excellent talent judgement – ability to assess talent gaps, and suggest actions needed to strengthen succession plans and talent pipelines
- Being able to excel when dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and matrixed environment
- Ability to understand and drive insights from HR data, analysing to measure impacts, assess OE plans, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes
- Deep personal accountability for great performance
- Experience working in a unionised environment is desired