Hr Director, Commercial (Us Beer & Canada)

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

Context/Scope

The HR Business partner is a critical leadership role accountable for driving the organization and people strategy in service of delivering year on year business performance growth in line with Diageo’s performance ambition. The HRBP is to be an agile, connected and accountable thought leadership partner to the business team members, enabling growth and performance. The role uses the levers of Talent Management, Reward Management, employee engagement and organization efficiency to advance the performance of the function it is accountable for. You will support attracting, developing, retaining, and growing a diverse group of dedicated individuals across Diageo North America. The HRBP is a member of the leadership team for the customer population within its remit in order to drive the organization, people, talent and culture agenda. The HRBP is measured on their achievement of these performance outcomes. Measurable plans and actions with achievement targets and measures feature highly.

This role reports to the SVP of Human Resources North America and provides business partnership to the President of Diageo Beer Company and Diageo Canada, a number of Vice Presidents along with their respective and broader commercial teams.

*Role will require ravel approx. 40% of the time – which includes traveling to Canada at a minimum once per month OR as required by the business*

Dimensions

Financial

• Partner with key senior collaborators and their teams to consider and take decisions that improve value for the organization.
• Responsible for annual budget overhead and headcount planning for the partners and functions it supports including employee benefit and leadership & capability training budget plans

Market Environment/ Complexity

• This role spans two Businesses across two different countries which requires agility and critical thinking to work with the President of both groups to find efficiencies while also appreciating the nuances of both teams.
• The HRBP role also works optimally within the function partnering other HRBP/HRDS across markets, First Point and Global Centers of Expertise.

Leadership Responsibilities/ Key Partners

• The role holder will be encouraged to actively engage in and help define the North America Organization and People strategy along with contributing to broader team outcomes. As a team, we support each other through coaching, sharing ideas and solutions and always striving to achieve the biggest impact possible.
• The HRBP will support a number of senior collaborators across the Beer and Canada business units within the North America market (NAM) and plays an integral role on their respective leadership teams.
• As a true Business Partner, the role supports delivery of the business priorities of Inclusions & Diversity, Health, Safety & Wellbeing and enabling a culture where every individual can be themselves with pride and authenticity
• The role holder is encouraged to play an active role within the NAM HR team, engaging on broader priorities from Diageo’s People Strategy and contributing to Global outcomes.

Top Accountabilities

• Deliver the integrated talent & capability plan using internal and external analysis to ensure we have the most diverse and dedicated employees delivering the ambitions of the organization today and tomorrow
• Diagnose and deliver full talent interventions against business needs. This includes:
• Coach line managers to deliver people commitments, drive performance and manage employee relations
• Resourcing planning & career path planning down to agreed levels
• Embed core processes (P4G, Capability and Competency Development)
• Drive successful performance through the HR operating model and ways of working – engaging key line and FirstPoint team members to build successful relationships to drive business results
• Measure organizational health and lead culture & engagement strategies in line with Diageo’s overall ambition including its commitment to having the most inclusive culture where every individual can thrive and deliver their best performance
• Delivery of succession plans
• Lead key HR annual processes: ARC, Talent Engagement, Talent planning, MYTP, and OE.
• Lead Organization Effectiveness plans, interventions and solutions

Qualifications And Experience Required

You will have a solid background in leading HR subject areas where you will have already proven your ability to shape and deliver organizational effectiveness and change with confidence. You will bring the following:

• Experience in working successfully with customers at the most senior level – black-belt coach– influencing, supporting and challenging.
• Strong change and project management skills
• Can diagnose OE capability gaps and translate into the OE levers – learning, culture, process, ways of working and behaviors
• Prior experience of working with global client groups would be advantageous – specifically in Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Reward Management, Culture & Employee engagement
• Previous experience at senior HRBP level ideally within the FMCG environment
• Ability to use HR data and analytics to diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes
• Deep understanding of design principles and how they influence organizational design, use relevant benchmarking and can influence the team members to choose a design which is both effective and efficient.
• Have a good understanding of HR processes and process improvement
• Strong talent management experience and great talent judgment – ability to assess talent gaps, and orchestrate the actions needed to strengthen the talent bench
• A solid coach to leaders
• Deep commercial understanding a strong internal and external radar to understand what will impact the business now and in the future
• Experience of driving culture and engagement strategies
• Understand what drives value for the business area you support, and puts effective interventions in place to enable this

Barriers to Success in Role

• Poor communication, challenge and engagement skills
• Lack of personal impact & low energy
• Inability to coach and influence upwards and among peers
• Process and Input focused versus outcome and delivery focused
• Insufficient commercial insights
• Inability to coach and influence upwards
• Inability to build effective working relationships remotely

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 Diageo to succeed and 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.

Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date

2023-03-22

Salary Range

Minimum Salary:

$136068.75

Maximum Salary

$226781.25

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.