People & Culture Business Partner - Functions

n the Island of Ireland Market, we employ 250 people, who are part of a wider team of 1,200 highly skilled professionals across five operations, including brewing, production of liqueurs, marketing, sales and commercial support.

As an inclusive, high performing team, we are focused on building sustainable growth, and we live our purpose of celebrating life, every day, everywhere across the Island of Ireland.

The Overview

At Diageo, there are two core assets that drive growth across our business: our brands and our people. They drive one another. The People & Culture 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 organisation to deliver the biggest possible performance outcomes.

The purpose of the role is to partner teams that are agile, connected and accountable partner to the Marketing, Beer Hub, Digital, Finance, Legal and CR teams enabling growth and performance through focusing on the four pillars of our Global People Strategy: Advantaged Capabilities, Sustainable Talent, Thriving Organisation and Operational Effectiveness for the market.

Financial

This role is accountable for collaborating with leadership teams, Global CoEs, Finance teams and Shared Services to ensure we enhance value for the organisation, deliver against overheads AOP and deliver our key OE metrics while delivering improved financial performance.

Market Complexity

This role operates across the full IOI Market. It is critical that the incumbent can navigate the matrix organisation, lead through others, build solid relationships and influence within all levels of the business.

Leadership Responsibilities

This role leads the people agenda across all of the functions within the IOI Market partnering with our global Centres of Excellence and shared service colleagues.

Top Accountabilities

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and disruptive talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, dynamic workforce planning, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent and creating exciting career paths for people which accelerates their performance impact & development. This will include ongoing collaboration with the Global Functions HRBPs in other markets.

• Lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda across the different functions - grounded in the market strategy and by using data and analytics creating possibilities that result in impactful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies and injects the right reinvestments. The role provides change leadership across the organisation by pulling the levers of across capability, process, ways of working, culture and leadership to deliver the outcomes for the business.

• Drive inclusion, equity and diversity agenda tailored to each function 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.

• Build 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 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.

Experience Required

• A highly developed curiosity to understand what drives the business and how the varying agendas across each function drives the market forward, enabling the leaders to be able to make valuable contributions through seeing each scenario through the lens of both the business objective and the people agenda

• Successful collaboration and influencing across a variety of colleagues at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.

• Highly conceptual - is able to join the dots and paint a picture that makes sense and influences the business to shape the future.

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

• Change and project management skills (including influencing & leading change)

• Ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect

• Excellent talent judgement - ability to assess talent gaps, and suggest actions needed to strengthen the talent bench

• 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, analysing to measure impacts, assess OE plans, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes

Working with us

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world!

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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