Talent Engagement Leader – Global Functions

Job Description :

Talent Engagement Leader – Global Functions

Location: London

Role Type: Permanent – Full time

Reports to: Talent Engagement Director – Europe, Global Functions & Early Careers

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding 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.

About the role

Diageo’s Performance Ambition calls for us to create the best performing most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world; this requires us to guarantee our plans with the right people and capabilities. Talent Engagement is the global function that attracts, assesses and selects extraordinary diverse talent that is the best for Diageo to help deliver our performance ambition.

The Talent Engagement Lead role is a people manager position that takes full accountability of TE planning, employer brand and recruitment delivery for their organisation within Europe. This team will deliver c.350 hires to the business multiple countries and regions. The TE Leader has key partners within the Executive Team of their dedicated business functions, with the opportunity to build strong, valued relationships through collaborative partnership.

The TE Leader will have responsibility for partnering with function leaders, General Manager’s and Senior Leaders from the Exec, and will be deeply connected to the talent needs and ambitions to drive the performance outcomes as defined by the Talent strategy within the function. The TE Leader will be the lead point of contact for Talent Engagement in terms of talent reviews, talent forums and identifying potential candidates for internal moves from succession pools and plans. This is a significant business partnering role where adding new value is constantly required and expected. As a result, there is a high level of visibility and impact

What you can expect to do in the role:

• Leadership of TE activity across Europe, including developing, nurturing and driving performance through a team of direct reports

• Member of Europe TE leadership team, helping to shape future strategy and implement standardised ways of working and/or translation of global policy/practices

• Activate the Employer Brand in conjunction with the Global Employer Brand team focusing campaigns to critical hires and/or focus areas for diversity

• Develop the diversity recruitment strategy for your region and embed effective ways of working to support hiring outcomes

• Lead the annual resource planning process – then track, re-forecast and engage with the business to deliver on the plan YOY

• Build strong relationships across multiple partner/collaborator groups, including different cultures / markets, internal & external

• Drive performance of the TE function by using our pioneering recruiting tech stack

What you’ll need to bring to the role

• A strong ability to influence and align key decision makers

• Have a deep personal accountability for great performance

• Ability to translate the global TE objectives to one that drives resourcing performance in the region and understand where and when to intervene in areas that will drive the greatest performance impact

• Highly tuned external and internal radar – understanding of the gold standard in resourcing and development of appropriate network / contacts

• Thinks into the future and brings this into the organisation to shape others ideas and actions

The experience you’ll ideally have:

• TE management experience from complex, fast-paced and successful organisations

• A commercially minded resourcing subject matter expert

• Experience in activating an employer brand for a market area

• An ability to work in the most confidential situations gaining trust through absolute discretion and respect from colleagues and collaborators alike

• Exceptional consultative skills and be able to use personal authenticity to influence action and change with key partners

• Ability to deploy programmes and processes remotely and through others

• Strong analytical skills ensuring that data is used to create powerful business objectives, as well as track and draw insight to generate action plans to achieve objectives and course correct

• Exceptional communications skills both written and verbal and be confident to present with impact and credibility

• A continuous improvement mind-set, always evaluating programmes and tools and identifying areas for improvement

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity

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.

Be you with us!

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

1HQ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-08-16

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.

DRINKiQ

What’s your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)