Job Title; HRBP and Capability Lead
Level; Mid- Level Management
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 Function
At Diageo, we're the home of iconic alcohol brands, and the hugely talented people who make them what they are. These brands were created centuries ago by entrepreneurs, visionaries and philanthropists and, today, we're proud to be the torchbearers of continuing innovation.
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In, HR, we strive to be an agile, connected and accountable partner to the business, providing a platform for high performance and growth. Creating a working environment that allows our pioneering, global organization to achieve the mission of celebrating life every day, everywhere, means that our people can thrive in a culture that includes, inspires and supports.
HR is at the heart of our global business and we have departments across many of our offices around the world, with HR service centers in Budapest, Nairobi and Manila. Collectively these teams provide the widest variety of expertise to the business: from strategic delivery and skills development to talent engagement and careers development, process and systems management to organizational effectiveness and reward management.
As one of our HR professionals, you'll see there are open doors for you everywhere here. With opportunities to shape the career you want, through continuing learning and development, and the support of inspiring peers.
Role Responsibilities
Capability Strategy
- Performance & Workforce planning: Analyze workforce data and training metrics to measure the impact of learning initiatives, provide insights on employee performance trends to guide business decisions and HR interventions, optimize capability budgets, ensuring cost-effective training solutions without compromising quality.
- Talent & Leadership Development: Design and implement high-potential employee development programs to build future leadership pipelines, Lead coaching, mentoring, and succession planning initiatives to strengthen leadership capability at all levels, Support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the workforce.
- Create and implement a capability strategy, aligned with business needs and regulatory requirements, conduct training needs assessments to identify skill gaps across the business, Design and manage training roadmaps, ensuring employees are equipped with technical, leadership competencies, drive digital learning solutions, including Learning Management Systems (LMS), e-learning, and blended learning approaches.
- Training & Capability Development: Be responsible for technical and compliance training, including, partnering with department heads to implement Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and career progression frameworks, Track training effectiveness and employee growth through key performance indicators (KPIs) and feedback mechanisms.
- Compliance & Safety Training: Ensure all employees undergo mandatory compliance training, Maintain accurate records of training completion and certification renewals.
- Talent & Leadership Development: Design and implement high-potential employee development programs to build future leadership pipelines, Lead coaching, mentoring, and succession planning initiatives to strengthen leadership capability at all levels, Support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the workforce.
HR Business Partnering
- Drive both people and business strategy while supporting their performance and growth.
- Support line managers to implement effective performance management processes, ensure that mid-year and annual appraisals are carried out in a timely manner and follow up actions are implemented as planned.
- Coordinate the talent and succession management process to ensure availability of talent to meet current and future business needs
- Work closely with senior and line managers, providing them with expert guidance and support on the full range of HR activities (including policies and procedures, terms and conditions of employment, absence management, restructuring of services, performance management, etc.), in order to ensure a consistent and fair approach to people
- Engage, enable and challenge line managers to manage their people effectively.
- Develop and support line managers to create and implement activities to enhance employee engagement and create a positive work environment and build an engaged workforce
- Implement organizational change and development within the business and control of HR budget in area of responsibility.
- Recommend and implement HR policies & HR plan - recruitment and selection, disciplinary action, separation, and staff development, training and retention.
- Create and implement solutions to meet business needs
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA or Post Graduate Diploma in specific HR (Added advantage)
- Any professional Human Resource Certification (Added advantage)
Experience
- Min 5 years in a progressive HR environment, with solid understanding of IR •
- Development and delivery of training packages.
- Track record of Human Resource Business Partnering
- Implementing People Performance Management process in an organization
Core Skills
- Coaching (HPC) •
- Written and verbal communication
- Interpersonal and Influencing skills •
- Negotiation skills • Sound understanding of professional development sand awareness of people management • Labor laws/ Employment legislation •
- Able to translate complex principles into simple working plans •
- Strong Presentation skill
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package
Diversity statement:
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, mindsets, 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.