HR Business Partner - Global Procurement and Corporate Real Estate (CRES)

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. As HR Business Partners, our role is to guarantee 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 craft the future organisation to create the biggest possible performance outcomes.

We are looking for an agile, connected and accountable partner to the leadership team supporting Global Procurement and Corporate Real Estate enabling growth and performance through outstanding delivery of our Global HR Strategy: Continuous Learning, Innovative Approach to Talent, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Speed, Focus & Simplicity & Fulfilling Employee Experiences.

About the Role

This role sits within the Diageo Supply Chain and Procurement HR function, our organisation and ways of working are designed to work in a fully integrated way, across categories and functions within Supply and across the end-to-end value chain of Diageo. Creating the maximum contribution to Diageo's Performance Ambition.

This role operates across the full Procurement function in Europe, LAC, NAM, Asia and Africa. It is critical that the incumbent can navigate the matrix organisation, lead through others, build great relationships and influence within all levels of the business.

Fuelled by the HR strategy your role is to:

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and innovative talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, building a strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career path for people which accelerates their development.


• Lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda across the organisation - grounded in the functional strategy and by using data and analytics, creating possibilities that results in successful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies, and injects the right reinvestments.


• Drive inclusion, diversity and equity agenda 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 through fulfilling employee experiences .


• 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.


• Build impactful teams, coaching senior leaders and line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance culture to enables outstanding performance .


• Enable the culture transformation within the functions including the continued embedding of the Dial Up Behaviours, supporting and challenging leaders to adopt agility and speed, and driving accountability for bold and confident decision making.


• Partner with leadership teams, Global Centres of Excellences (COE's), Finance teams and Shared Services to ensure we enhance value for organisation , deliver against overheads Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and deliver our key Organizational Effectiveness metrics while delivering improved financial performance.
  
  Provides thought leadership from an HR functional perspective, creating new insights for the organisation which can move solutions out of the norm to create impact.


• Excellent talent judgement from a strategic point of view - what are the interventions which will make the biggest difference.


• Collaborates and influences across a variety of partners at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.


• Adept at navigating a matrix organisation, lead through others, build solid relationships and influence within all levels of the business.


• Deep understanding of organisational design principles and how to create principles for each function to drive growth/ functional progression.


• Being able to excel when dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment.


• Ability to understand and drive insights from HR data, analysing to measure impacts, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes.


• Holds a strategic outlook which enables the identification of interventions which make a scaled and sustained impact.


• A highly developed curiosity to understand what drives the business and how the varying agendas work towards driving the organisation forward, enabling leaders to be able to make informed decisions through the lens of both the business objective and the people agenda to deliver the best outcome.


• Deep personal accountability for great performance.


• Experience working across multiple countries/geographies/cultures.
  
  Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. 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.


Diageo's culture is built and maintained by the five values that underpin its business and guide how Diageo works. At Diageo, employees are passionate about its consumers and customers and want to be better. They value each other. Employees work hard so they can be proud of what they do and how they do it. While Diageo moves at pace, constantly evolving and improving, its values remain consistent. Diageo wants that employees live these values every day, everywhere so that Diageo can be proud of what they do and be the best that they can be., 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., 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.

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