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Senior HR Business Partner

AT Diageo
Diageo

Senior HR Business Partner

Nairobi, Kenya

As Senior HR Business Partner, you will be accountable for delivery of HR Strategy initiatives for the designated function (s) in support of business objectives and targets.

You will work with various HR teams across the system to deliver on the business objectives and will be a member of the KBL HR Leadership Team.

You will be responsible for :

  • Translating Business Strategies and Priorities: convert strategies into operating model implications, including organizational design, capabilities and skills, talent, and ways of working to enhance team effectiveness and culture as an enabler
  • Strategic Talent Management: Provide deep talent insights and succession planning; Focus on talent development, including coaching, inclusion, and diversity; Lead senior talent hiring (L4 critical talent and L3+).
  • Leadership and Manager Effectiveness: Improve the effectiveness of leadership teams and line managers.
  • Capability Building: Develop critical future-proof capabilities in partnership with L&D to drive competitive advantage
  • Lead Culture Evolution: Strengthen overall engagement and cultural alignment to support business growth

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To be successful in this role, you will need :

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree

HR Certification, Professional Membership with relevant bodies (e.g IHRM)

Skills and Experiences
  • 8+ years of experience in Senior HR roles within multinational in consumer goods companies.
  • Business & Market Intelligence: Understands Diageo's business ecosystem, competitor landscape and workforce composition, leverages external industry insights, commercial and financial acumen to build impactful solutions
  • Organization Architect: Operates with the strategic drivers of Diageo in mind, understanding the wider business context to drive organisational performance, productivity and growth
  • Change & Transformation Leader: Identifies areas in which change, and transformation are needed, navigates change and ambiguity with skill, models resilience, and takes ownership and responsibility for making change ‘stick'
  • Talent assessor: Culture Catalyst: Shapes and enables a winning growth culture that promotes inclusion, diversity, equity, sustainability and collaboration across the organisation, that connects current and potential workers' purpose to the organisation's purpose and makes people want to work for Diageo
  • Coaching for Performance: Establishes a network of key relationships and leverages these with purpose, coaching leaders and facilitating crucial conversations across Diageo. Provides insightful challenge to unleash performance, potential and growth
  • Agile Operator: Empowers individuals and teams within HR & across the business to work together flexibly and dynamically to solve complex issues through the use of agile methods, tools & ways of working
  • Capability Builder: Anticipates and continually assesses the current capabilities and enabling skills required at a functional and organisational level to help achieve business goals. Connects talent strategy to these future needs
  • Data & Analytics Driven: Grounded in HR/people data and how this can be gathered, manipulated and interpreted to develop insights that help unlock business performance through people solutions and inform decision-making Being ‘tech savant' to leverage technologies including AI to improve effectiveness and drive required outcomes with more speed and impact.


Leadership Standards
  • Win through Execution- Lead bold execution in a fast-moving world.
  • Inspire through Purpose- amplify our purpose internally and externally.
  • Shape the Future- create focus and ownership for shaping Diageo's future ambition.
  • Invest in Talent- harness the full extent of Diageo's talent and diversity.


About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands.

Join us and you'll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll build brands consumers love.

We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you'll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let's unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world's very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Client-provided location(s): Nairobi, Kenya
Job ID: Diageo-JR1105392
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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