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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.

About You

We are looking for an experienced HR Leader with a comprehensive understanding of organization and talent strategy to lead one of the most exciting emerging markets in Diageo APAC.

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Diageo’s ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world. The Diageo Performance Ambition clearly outlines the business strategy. 

The role of HR is to ensure the right, leadership, culture and organization model and that we have the right talent with the required skills and capabilities to brilliantly execute the strategy.  The HR Director’s role (HRD) is to partner with the business, to challenge and support in equal measure; to help strategically shape the future organization to deliver the biggest possible performance outcomes at optimal cost and in the most efficient and effective way, externally benchmarking to ensure we deliver on our ambition to be No 1 CPG. Creating a future fit, digital and sustainable organization and leveraging and further building the distinctive Diageo culture will be key to success.

The HRD’s remit covers the VIETNAM market partnering effectively with the country Leadership Team and the broader stakeholders in Southeast Asia to drive the short and long-term growth agenda, to delivering sustainable commercial success of the local business and drive a progressive workplace for the future. The HRD will also support delivery of market initiatives across Southeast Asia when required.

The role will be accountable for leading the people agenda to drive and being a brilliant performance partner to enable accelerated growth in line with our ambition in Vietnam. The HRD is accountable for creating the people strategy for the business, enabling growth and performance through our HR Strategic priorities of Talent; Inclusion and Diversity; Advantaged Capabilities; Culture of Speed & Agility and a Brilliant Employee Experience.

About this role

The purpose of the role is to partner effectively with the country Leadership team such that the people and talent agenda guarantees and amplifies organizational performance. The HRD will build robust people plan to drive engagement and performance, including action orientated talent assessments, succession planning to future-proof the business.  

The role will lead the Organization Effectiveness agenda driving the business strategy through creating possibilities that results in high performing agile culture, game changing growth opportunities, and efficiencies for sustainable growth.  In doing so, the role holder will drive the end-to-end change, pulling the levers of capability, ways of working, structure, culture, behaviors, leadership and talent to deliver the outcomes for the business.

The HRD will drive the diversity agenda by creating an environment is progressive and genuinely inclusive for all enabling business performance and create a strategy for the attraction, hiring and retention of diverse talent.

You will be accountable for:

Partnering with the market leadership team to build and deliver an ambitious and Disruptive Approach to Talent through talent plans which include robust succession plan

The HRD will lead on Inclusion and Diversity strategy to deliver our ambitious Society 2030 goals and ensure this is integrated through all HR levers (talent, reward, capability, engagement etc.).

Drive performance enablement by coaching the General Manager and leadership team members to create an agile, stretching, fast-pace and focused performance culture and highly engaged organization.

Act as a custodian of Diageo Values and Reputation. This is about ensuring compliance and ethics standards are embedded and championed in the business. 

Drive effectiveness across the HR organization to ensure we maximize the skills and capability and create capacity in organization by brilliant basics and optimizing the partnership between in market HR business partners, COEs (like reward, talent engagement) and the shared service center. to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent, leveraging our employer brand proposition and creating exciting, accelerated career path for people which strengthens our talent bench.

Creating an inclusive culture where each employee feel valued for their uniqueness and are able to maximize their impact.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

Circa 8+ years of HR experience within fast-paced, dynamic multinational companies

Successful track record in HR Business Partner roles, leading various disciplines of the HR function (Talent, reward, I&D, employee relations, culture, etc)

Demonstrable capability in driving cultural transformation and change management is an advantage

Strong understanding of a P&L, including overhead management and data-lead decision making

Experience of managing multiple stakeholders in matrix environment

Demonstrated experience in coaching and performance management of senior leaders.

Degree qualified, preferably in HR or Business.

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

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