HR Business Partner - Tequila Category - Manufacturing

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 diversity of our talent and 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 create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world's very best people.

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About Tequila Category and Manufacturing:

• We have an outstanding collection of world-leading tequila brands in our portfolio. Carefully crafted in Mexico from Agave Weber Blue Variety and enjoyed by consumers worldwide. Tequila is one of Diageo´s largest categories, after Scotch. The popularity of tequila is on the rise among consumers, representing a great opportunity to drive growth. In F25 first half, our tequila net sales grew 21%, driven by Don Julio and Casamigos in North America. Today Don Julio is sold in over 50 countries, and Casamigos in over 30 countries.
• Our Tequila operations span across Jalisco and bordering states, with a base in Guadalajara, and encompass expertise in agave management, production, and partnerships with third-party operators to ensure quality and efficiency. This category is underpinned by a relentless focus on building a diverse, inclusive, and capable workforce, creating a workplace culture that champions collaboration, innovation, and pride in the iconic products we bring to the world. In the highlands of Jalisco, we have 2 operational distilleries and being built is the world's largest Tequila distillation greenfield that will be operational in F27. The role will support an employee base of approximately. 1000 employees. El Gran Charcon site is critical, being the only packaging site for global Tequila supply with 80% unionized population. This will have a huge impact on the Growth of the business.

• As a key contributor to the growth and transformation of the category, the HRBP - Manufacturing will play a pivotal role in shaping the talent strategies and organizational capabilities needed to sustain and scale our success. Will work directly with the Category HR Director and the Operations Director (RUN) and Operations Transformation Director to deliver an HR agenda which propels the category to success through activities including:
• Partner with the Operations leadership team to build and deliver ambitious and innovative talent plans grounded in the strategy, which include robust leadership planning to future-proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, a strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career paths for people that accelerate their development. This will include ongoing collaboration across the Categories, Supply Chain & Procurement, and global Diageo.
• Champion our Inclusion and Diversity agenda bespoke to Manufacturing, creating impact through all HR levers (talent, reward, culture, learning, etc), building an inclusive culture where each employee feels valued for their uniqueness and can improve their impact.
• Partnering with the Organization Efficiency and Capability agenda in the category strategy, by using data and analytics, creating possibilities that result in high-performing and impactful performance, delivering cost efficiencies, and injecting the right reinvestments. The role provides change leadership across the manufacturing organization by pulling the levers of capability, process, ways of working, culture, and leadership to deliver the outcomes for the business.
• Enable the culture transformation within Operations, including shaping the culture agenda for the new greenfield by continued embedding of the Diageo Behaviors, supporting and challenging leaders to embrace agility and speed, and driving accountability for bold and confident decision making.
• Build high-performing teams, coaching line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance environment to enable outstanding performance.
• Actively collaborate with the E2E Diageo HR team, including shared services and our Centers of Excellence, to deliver impactful employee experiences every time.
• Instills a continuous learning culture throughout the Category, ensuring employees have access to stretching experiences and outstanding learning content that fuels constant growth in their capabilities and our business performance.
• Partners with the Employee Relations leader to maintain a healthy and productive Employee Relations (ER) Climate. The role is the first level critical issue for Employee Relations matters such as individual end-to-end ER case management (e.g. Disciplinary, grievances, ill health retirement, long term absence, etc). And for collaborating with union and non-union forums around change, developing a strong Union relationship.
• Will lead HRBPs who support the three sites within the category. Accountable for the development of agile HR talent who create conditions to bring out the best from the leaders and talent.

• Bring thought leadership from deep Functional Knowledge of leading HR for a large manufacturing organization to shape the People & Culture Strategy that is fit for purpose for the context. Categorize priorities that span across all strategic levers, looking beyond the financial year on how to bring the future forward and creating performance impact at scale.
• Have Eye For Business and deep understanding of working around Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Morale, Sustainability to be able to create new opportunities and ways forward through diverse inputs using external intelligence and insights from HR data, analyzing to measure impacts, assess plans, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes.
• Leadership that is inspiring through purpose! Demonstrates Diageo behaviors to continuously improve HR delivery, harnessing innovation and technology to exceed our customer expectations.
• Provoke / Challenge to surface problems and lead creative solutions through a culture of collaboration and a previously successful way of working, removing duplication and championing efficiency and simplification.
• Deliver outcomes through Interpersonal skills, building and nurturing genuine relationships based on mutual trust and respect, collaborating with and influencing across a variety of key partners at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.
• Thrives in an environment dealing with ambiguity, complexity, and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and matrixed environment.
• Experience working across multiple countries, geographies, and cultures.
• A master's degree or equivalent experience in human resource management with at least 10 years of working experience supporting a large / multi-site manufacturing set up with a unionized population.
• Proficiency in spoken and written Spanish and English is a must.