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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 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 You:
We are looking for a hard-working and motivated person for joining to our team to lead Diageo's Tequila & Mezcal Sustainability agenda across all the Categories and provide strategic planning, high efficiency project management, and key partner engagement to achieve our Sustainability objectives encompassed in our Spirit of Progress ambitions.
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Develop and drive Diageo's Sustainability Initiatives with emphasis on Water, Carbon, Waste/Recycling & wider Sustainability Initiatives across all Tequila & Mezcal Category in Mexico, including Manufacture & Agriculture Operations, Expansion Projects, Procurement, Logistics, Planning, Packaging, Brand Change & Innovation, & Finance.
About the Role:
- Provide strategic and technical direction/support for operations, expansion, global and local engineering, procurement, finance, planning, logistics, and the wider sustainability teams to identify sustainable innovation opportunities, research programs, and implement projects to deliver the strategy.
- Engage with cross-functional team members through the Category to ensure the accurate adoption of initiatives and unblock challenges. This includes Operational teams, Managers, Senior Managers, and Directors.
- Lead the End-to-End process for project management, including but not limited to the identification, creation, approval, implementation, reporting, and closure of Sustainability projects. Project development
- Ensure implementation of market/region sustainability programs to achieve impact reductions at set achievements across the different environmental focus areas (Water efficiency, Carbon Reduction, Regenerative Agriculture, Sustainable Packaging and Agriculture, Circular economy, etc.). Manage (where it needs it) key sustainability strategic project implementations and project management activities.
- Close integration with the Sustainability Program Managers to develop, design, and report Sustainability initiatives. Agreeing on important targets through engagement with own and third-party operations sites and global teams to drive required improvements.
- Built the Sustainability Culture and Capabilities, driving the required environmental sustainabilityplan, including employee education and engagement.
- Ensure compliance with budget management and contract management.
Experience required/Languages:
- Graduate with 5 -10 years of experience on management & engagement roles, environmental compliance & Sustainability initiatives. Experience in the food or brewing/spirits industry preferred. In-depth knowledge of manufacturing operations, supply chains, engineering, and customer/suppliers engagement
- Must have a good understanding of the scale & complexity of the Tequila business and Mexico's environmental regulations and regulated markets.
- Proficiency in environmental capability framework for Environmental sustainability, Carbon & Energy, Water and Wastewater, Solid waste and resource use, Specific aspects to air, land, and water, and tequila biodiversity.
- Excellent project management, program management, communication, and interpretation of complex environmental data and trends.
- engagement and communication skills, and the experience of mentoring and influencing partners for success.
- A proven track record in managing people and or small teams, projects, and cross-functional team working. (Project management style)
- Fluid in written and verbal Spanish and English language is a must
We offer stellar benefits!
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. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.
Character Is Everything