HR Business Partner - Malt Distilling

About the role:

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 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 organization to deliver the biggest possible outcomes.

The purpose of the role is to be an agile, connected and accountable partner to the Site Leadership team enabling growth and performance through focusing on the five pillars of our Global HR Strategy: Continuous Learning, Innovative Approach to Talent, Inclusion & Diversity, Speed, Focus & Simplicity & Fulfilling Employee Experiences. In addition the role holder will be an integral part of the wider teams working with Scotch Manufacturing and Global Supply Chain & Procurement.

Financial
This role is improved accountable for working with leadership teams and Global CoEs to ensure we maximize value for organization, delivering our key OE metrics while delivering financial performance.

Market Complexity
This role operates across the full Scotch Category and wider Supply Chain & Procurement. It is critical that the incumbent can navigate the matrix organization, lead through others, build solid relationships and influence within all levels of the business.

Leadership Responsibilities
This role leads the people agenda across Malt Distilling sites across Scotland. As well as being a member of the Scotch HR team the role is part of the Site Operational Leadership Teams in these areas. It utilizes our Global Centers of Excellence and shared service colleagues in pursuit of this.

Top Accountabilities

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and innovative talent plans which includes robust organizational planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting accelerated career paths for people to fuel their development.
• Own the Organization Effectiveness agenda for Malt Distilling and contribute to the broader plan for Scotch Category – using data and analytics to create solutions that result in pioneering performance, delivers cost efficiencies and injects the right reinvestments.
• Drive Inclusion and Diversity agenda tailored to the sites 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 increase their impact.
• Support the development of high performing 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 Centers of Excellence.
• Instill a continuous learning culture throughout the organization by 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 Learning and site Capability Manager in pursuit of this.

Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities

• Excellent talent judgment – ​​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, analyzing to measure impacts, assess OE plans, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes
• Deep personal accountability for great performance
• Ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect
• Successful collaboration and influencing across a variety of collaborators at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.
• Change and project management skills (including influencing change)
• Experience working in a unionized environment
• Collaborating with and coaching business leaders to add valuable contributions through seeing each scenario through the lens of both the business objective and how the people strategy drives and facilitates this
• An innate curiosity to understand what drives the business and how the varying agendas across each function and business area give towards driving the Category forward

Diversity statement:

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.

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.

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