In late 2014 Diageo completed a €169 million investment creating a world class brewing centre of excellence at St. James's Gate, which has increased the competitiveness of beer exports through our end-to-end global supply chain network. Given continued growing demand for our beers, Diageo committed a further 100 million to the Brewery last year, enabling our team to deliver increased volume, new innovations and replacing our Kegging facility.

About the role

This role is pivotal to ensuring that we have the skills and capabilities to deliver our future strategy as we drive continuous improvement across site and step changes in sustainability, digital, performance and culture.

The Capability & Engagement Manager needs to leverage the skillsets and capabilities of our employees but also be connected to our wider business strategy to ensure we continue to update and elevate skillsets to manage future ambitions and requirements.

Some of the Key Accountabilities are

• Complete a regular gap analysis on the requirements of our future strategy vs our existing capabilities
• Partnering with the leadership team to diagnose, define and deploy learning solutions through understanding best practice, both internally and externally.
• Ensuring the site capability plan both current and future is driven brilliantly within budget.
• Supporting all people managers on site with analysis, sourcing delivery and evaluation of development activity.
• Ensuring all legislative training and policy requirements are fully met
• Ensuring all New Starts /internal movers have a training plan identified and ready for them to commence their new role.
• Develop and align the site skills matrix and empowerment matrix with the overall training plan and site performance goals.
• Will be responsible for developing training and development efficiency indicators to supervise progress as well as differences between operational areas.
• Design, and where appropriate, deliver efficient Training and Development solutions and activities in conjunction with internal and external suppliers.
• Lead the site communications and engagement strategy ensuring organisational initiatives are impactful.

About You

The ideal candidate will be determined with a passion for learning and development, able to build strong relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels and communicate effectively.

Relevant training qualification and background.

Demonstratable experience in developing a training strategy and leading the execution of impactful interventions.

Experience in a leadership role, coaching team members, and communicating across operations and management teams.

Excellent IT and data literacy skills, strong planning and coordination abilities, and the capability to manage and implement complex plans.

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

Ability the tone for site engagement and positive work behaviours

An understanding of change management principles, combined with the ability to influence at all levels, is needed. We are looking for someone who is culturally sensitive and adaptable.

Experience of working in a Brewing / FMCG/manufacturing or a similar environment with knowledge of Manufacturing Excellence tools/ Manufacturing Operations/ Packaging/ Lean Methodologies/ Process Control/ or Engineering Techniques would be beneficial.

About us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character, and in 250 years, nothing's changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy. And it's 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 world's very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you

Working with Us

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including annual bonus, product allowance, 6 months paid family leave, private medical insurance, share options, contributory pension scheme.

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.