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HR Director - Budapest

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Diageo

HR Director - Budapest

Budapest, Hungary

Job Title: HR Director - Budapest

Role type: Full time, permanent

Reports To: HR Director - Diageo Shared Services

Location: Budapest - Hungary

Language Skills: English - crucial, Hungarian - preferred

About us:

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About the role:

Our HRDs are integral to shaping and driving the organisational and people agenda; making sure we have the right structure, capabilities and talent for the future - all through skilled execution of our core people processes and interventions, focusing on creating the right environment for our teams to be successful.

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We have an opportunity for an HRD of the Diageo Centre based in Budapest, supporting both the FP&A Tower Globally as well as the end to end people agenda for the Budapest location - focusing on three distinctive areas to add real value to the business: Talent , Culture and Performance Enablement.

The HR Director will have two main areas of accountability:

1) HR Director of the Budapest location

The main responsibility is to lead, manage and own the end-to-end People agenda for the Budapest centre in conjunction with the leadership team ensuring strategic objectives are achieved. This will be achieved through close collaboration with the COE's (Talent, L&D, Reward, TE)
  • Key member of the Budapest Leadership team to deliver strategy, improve team effectiveness and drive engagement and culture through the organisation
  • Build and sustain authentic, exciting and impactful culture and personal growth environment in line with our Dial up Behaviours to enable business performance
  • Accountable to ensure organisation is ‘future proofed' from a talent perspective and is capable to effectively cope with the changing environment - ensuring diverse and competitively advantaged talent pipelines
  • In partnership with TE, building a strong local employer brand proposition that will attract and retain the best talent in the local market
  • Lead the agenda to drive senior leadership development and succession planning locally (working closely with each of the Global Tower HRBP's)
  • Partner with Talent and L&D to orchestrate the delivery of key talent and development interventions such as BeSpirited, Leadership programmes, the local Graduate Programme, Inclusive Leadership, Change Leadership etc
  • Initiate, drive and support large scale locational change initiatives impacting all populations across Budapest (DBS and non-DBS located in Budapest)
  • Lead an effective HR organisation locally (directly including HRBP's and payroll; indirectly including L&D, Reward and TE)
  • Champion and lead our global and local DEI commitments
  • Work with Global Reward to ensure clear, simple reward and benefit frameworks - ensuring that we remain competitive in the local market.
  • Support local ER issues
  • Exercise employer rights required to maintain relationship with Workers Council and external authorities as required


2) Lead HRBP responsibilities for the GBO (Global Business Operations) experience area - partner with Leadership team of the FC Tower to:
  • Deliver the Organisation Effectiveness agenda by translating the business strategy and pulling the levers of capability, process, ways of working, structure, talent to deliver the outcomes for the function. This will also require close collaboration with the global CoE's and Finance BP's.
  • Support the development and execution of the integrated talent & functional capability plan using internal and external analysis to ensure we have the right talent to deliver the ambitions of the Tower today and tomorrow
  • Lead initiatives to drive greater engagement across the Tower
  • Deliver D&I agenda and interventions
  • Partner with the key business collaborators and GBO Leaders to build high performing teams, line managers and create an environment which is clear on performance management.
  • Support all core annual people processes for the Tower: P4G's, talent reviews, calibration & the annual reward cycle.


Qualifications and Experience Required:
  • Experience in working successfully with leaders and key partners - able to form relationships, coach, influence and challenge
  • Experience working in cross functional and multi-cultural teams - with the ability to navigate a global matrix organisation
  • Demonstrated record of delivering organsational initiatives
  • Ability to use "HR data", analysing to measure impacts, assessing OE plans, diagnosing trends and links to business performance outcomes.
  • Ability to diagnose capability gaps and translate into the levers - learning, culture, process, ways of working and behaviours
  • Excellent facilitation and communication skills

Good understanding of Hungarian Labour Law and other relevant regulations

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.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. You'll have the chance to work out of one of the best offices in Budapest, with its famous Sky Bar.

Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying!

Be you with us!

Client-provided location(s): Budapest, Hungary
Job ID: Diageo-JR1106021
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • Pension
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Woman founded/led

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