About Diageo.
Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Tequila Don Julio and Casamigos, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has a relevant role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value. A fundamental part of our success is being responsible. We've put positive societal impact at the heart of our business strategy, through our ongoing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan.
Spirit of Progress, our ongoing ESG action plan, addresses the most significant environmental and social opportunities and risks Diageo faces. It has three priorities: to promote positive drinking, champion inclusion and diversity and pioneer grain-to-glass sustainability.
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Our continued long-term success depends on the people and planet around us. We have a responsibility to ensure that our people, our suppliers, the communities around our operations, our customers and consumers, and society at large all thrive as a result of our business.
Purpose of role.
The main focus of this role is to lead the delivery and support of our ESG Spirit of Progress Action Plan for our "In market company (IMC) business" by accelerating our promote positive drinking agenda to support our mission to change the way people drink for the better through a cross functional collaboration and engaging with key business partners, as well scaling our inclusion and diversity agenda through Learning for Life and social mobility programs, while protecting and enhancing Diageo's reputation and licence to operate, in service of becoming the most trusted and respected consumer goods company.
Top Accountabilities.
Functional
- The role will handle relationships and reputation with delivering partners, NGOs, academia, business partners, government, identifying and campaigning on our ESG -SOP action plan.
- The role will run ESG agencies, consultancies, and other external vendors for our SOP agenda.
- The role will handle partnerships with ESG Trade Associations and ensure that the TA strategy is aligned and complementary to Diageo's.
- The role will support Diageo's IMC initiatives for 2030 Society ambition, rolling out the global framework and targets.
- The role will work with finance, local and regional partners to guarantee assurance processes are met.
- The role will work closely with other functions delivering against our ESG ambition for Diageo Mexico.
- The role will work with the Comms team on internal and external communications to show the progress made on our SOP action plan.
Leadership
Win through Execution
- High energy and ambition to achieve successful outcomes and high standards.
- Balances deadlines with great execution.
- Guarantee reporting and assurance processes are met properly.
Shape the Future
- Sees the big picture and creates new possibilities incorporating a triple win execution.
- Frames issues in a way that builds clarity and incorporates others' best thinking.
Inspire through Purpose
- Finds broader meaning in their work and aspires to make a significant difference.
- Reads their environment and understands how culture and context influences people's perspectives.
- Draws on a variety of influencing styles to engage different audiences.
Invest in Talent
- Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed.
- Maintains belief and optimism and bounces back quickly from setbacks or failures.
Qualifications and Experience Required
- 2+ years of relevant ESG / Comms, corporate relations, social development internal department of an FMCG company, government body, or NGO.
- A track record of crafting, developing, and completing ESG related projects.
- Experience in leading agencies, consultants, and other external partners.
- Understanding of Mexico CSR/ESG landscape in Mexico.
- Experience working across multiple geographies/cultures.
- Deep personal accountability for great performance
- Outstanding ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect.
- Being able to excel when dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and matrixed environment.
- Experience in budget planning and management.
- Languages: Native-level Spanish and full proficiency in English (both spoken and written) are required.
- Writing and presentation skills in Spanish and English. Ability to deliver high-impact written materials. Excellent verbal communication skills.
Flexibility
This 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 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.