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 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.

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

Context/Scope:

Diageo Digital & Technology (DT) is a multi-functional, digital delivery function established to liberate and equip markets to deliver the Diageo's Strategic Priorities. This is achieved through:

• Putting our customers at the heart of delivery
• World class end to end process execution
• Generating performance enhancing insights from data
• Providing CPG leading digital capabilities and solutions
• Responding to and embracing change

• Lead Programme and project team(s) through great planning, organization and communication.
• Accountable for a Programme with rigorous governance. Establish a clear & robust governance model to drive decisions & outcomes.
• Create collaboration across team members and stakeholders, hold Programme team members to account.
• Anticipate risks and issues working with your team and stakeholders. Solve problems as they arise and ensure the escalation path is followed.
• Own end to end delivery of the Programme, managing interdependencies and leading the team to deliver against the plan and timelines.
• Confirm and deliver the business outcomes, working collaboratively with your team and stakeholders.
• Work with stakeholders to manage change ensuring Programme benefits are delivered.

• Plan, Organise & Communicate: Develop and manage Programme timeline and schedule. Proactively anticipate impacts of the current and future Programme phases. Translate Programme plans into business speak ensuring clear communication with stakeholders.
• Ownership and delegation: Empowers the project or workstream delivery leads to own delivery status, risk mitigation, issue resolution, CARM compliance and resourcing, with authority to make decisions at the respective Programme or project level.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Anticipate Programme-level risks and issues, use problem solving and collaboration skills to mitigate risks and resolve issues. Work with stakeholder groups to identify dependencies and communicate risks and issues clearly to stakeholders at all levels as appropriate.
• Financial Management: Accountable for end-to-end Programme financial planning and management. Financial management processes must be followed holding project managers to account with their financial management ensuring the Programme stays on track.
• Own end to end delivery: Inspire and lead the team to deliver against the plan and timelines. Create collaboration across diverse team members with different individual styles and backgrounds. Hold project managers and stakeholders to account, having difficult and constructive conversations where they are required. Influence where needed to move the Programme forward.
• Rigorous governance: Establish at the outset a clear & robust Programme governance model and use it to drive decisions, outcomes, engagement and management of stakeholders. Follow the Diageo PACE methodology and work with Delivery Partners including Enterprise Architecture (EA), Analytics and Insights (A&I) and Information Management and Security (IM&S) to ensure project compliance in these high-risk areas.
• Deliver business outcomes: Ensure stakeholders are engaged behind the outcomes. The team and stakeholders understand the agenda and are clear on what they need to do to deliver against it. Be resilient and resourceful, solve problems as they arise.
• Manage Change: Understand the wider impact of Programme and change implementation. Gain sponsorship at the correct level to support Programme implementation. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure there is an awareness of the need for change, desire to support the change, knowledge and ability to receive the change and that stakeholders have a plan to make the change stick and deliver the project benefits.
• Vendor Management: Work with vendors and Diageo's Procurement function to develop and deliver project solutions and ensure adherence to Diageo compliance standards. Ability to provide control over the RFP process milestones

• 10+ Year's project delivery experience in CPG's commercial programmes with multi markets and multi-million-dollars budget.

• Strong communication skills and used to work and influence at all levels of the organization.
• True leader and comfortable working in an ambiguous environment and under pressure.
• Agile and PMI or equivalent certifications
• Senior stakeholder's management
• Proven experience managing complex RFP processes