HR Business Partner Beer Category

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, and Tanqueray. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Ever since Arthur Guinness took out a 9,000-year lease on a Dublin brewery, some 260 years ago, we became a business that is defined by the character of the people who work here. Today our team at St James’s Gate is proud to continue the legacy of Arthur Guinness and in doing so continues to brew the world’s most iconic brands.

St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin is Diageo's largest manufacturing facility in Ireland, and the largest stout brewery in the world, producing over three million pints of Guinness every day, supplying a growing Irish and UK market, and exporting to 90 global markets.

About You:

At Diageo, there are two core assets that drive growth across our business: our brands and our people. They drive one another. The HR Function sits at the heart of this.

We are looking for an individual with a drive to be the best; an outstanding HR Business Partner who has a passion for understanding and partnering with the business. As well as using your strong HR experience, you will enjoy collaborating with HR COEs to ensure first class HR delivery.

About the Role:

The Beer Category is a high performing organisation working with the brand and commercial teams to establish the brand priorities and innovation pipeline and delivering breakout growth in our exciting Beer portfolio.

We are looking for an agile, connected, and accountable partner to the leadership team supporting the St James’s Gate brewery enabling growth and performance through outstanding delivery of our Global HR Strategy. As Business Partners, our role is to ensure we have the right conditions in place to develop and release the potential of our talent, our leaders, and their teams. We are there to challenge and support in equal measure; to help strategically shape the future organisation to deliver the biggest possible performance outcomes.

In addition, the role holder will be an integral part of the wider team partnering the Beer Category and Global Supply Chain & Procurement.

Key Accountabilities:

Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and disruptive talent plans which include robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, identifying a strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career paths for people which accelerate their development. This will include ongoing collaboration with Category and Function HR BPs across Global Supply Chain & Procurement.

Own the Organisation Effectiveness agenda for St James’s Gate and contribute to the broader plan for the Beer Category – using data and analytics to create solutions that result in impactful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies and injects the right reinvestments.

Drive an inclusion and diversity agenda specific to the site across all HR levers (talent, reward, culture, learning, etc) that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feels valued for their uniqueness and are able to enhance their impact.

Support the development of successful teams, coaching line managers to create an agile, stretching, and focused performance culture to enable 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 Global Capabilities and Site Capability Manager in pursuit of this.

Enable the ongoing culture transformation within the Category , supporting and challenging leaders to embrace agility and speed, and driving accountability for bold and confident decision making.

Co-own HR collaboration across the operating model so that we deliver aligned plans which complement and support the ambition to bring value through speed, agility and innovation in categories from an end-to-end perspective.

Experience:

• You will have an innate curiosity to understand what drives the business and how the varying agendas across each function contribute towards driving the market forward, enabling the leaders to be able to add value through seeing each scenario through the lens of both the business objective and the people agenda.
• You will demonstrate successful collaboration and influencing across a variety of stakeholders at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.
• You will have a curious attitude and a desire to continuously improve HR delivery, harnessing innovation, and technology to exceed our customer expectations.
• You will seek and create a culture of collaboration and best practice, removing duplication and championing efficiency and simplification.
• You are highly conceptual - able to join the dots and paint a picture that makes sense and influences the business.
• You have a deep understanding of organisational design principles and how to create principles for each function to drive growth/ functional progression.
• You have strong change and project management skills (including influencing change).
• You can build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect.
• You demonstrate excellent talent judgement – possessing the ability to assess talent gaps, and suggest actions needed to strengthen succession plans and talent pipelines.
• You excel when dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and matrixed environment.
• You understand and drive insights from HR data; analysing to measure impacts, diagnose trends and connect with business performance outcomes.
• Experience working in a unionised environment is extremely desirable.

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

About Us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level

Then this may be the opportunity for you

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 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.

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