Head of HR - Eastern Europe

Job Title: Head of HR Eastern Europe

Locations: Budapest

Role Type: Permanent - Full time

ABOUT US

At Diageo, there are three core assets that drive growth across our business: our brands, people and Culture. HR Business Partners play a key role ensuring we have the right conditions in place to develop and unleash the potential of our talent, leaders and their teams. It is to challenge and support in equal measure; to help strategically shape the future organisation to deliver the biggest possible performance outcomes.

At Diageo, we are the modern-day custodians of some of the best, most loved brands in the world. Brands with hundreds of years of history, brands of exceptional quality, and brands that will be the giants of the future.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Based in Budapest, the Head of HR for EE markets reports to the Managing Director and is responsible for the overall people agenda, demonstrating and maximising the impact of the total End-2-End operating model. The HR Head is a member of the Leadership team.

The purpose of the role is to partner effectively with businesses and functions within the market to implement and embed the Global Diageo and CEE HR Strategy such that the people and talent agendas guarantee and amplify organisational performance. You will also strongly collaborate with all areas of the business including Sales, marketing, corporate relations and finance.

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and innovative talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, building a strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career path for people which accelerates their development.
• Lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda across the organisation - grounded in the functional strategy and by using data and analytics, creating possibilities that results in successful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies, and injects the right reinvestments. Deliver against overheads Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and deliver our key Organizational Effectiveness metrics while delivering improved financial performance.
• Drive inclusion, diversity and equity agenda that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feels valued for their uniqueness and can improve their impact through fulfilling employee experiences.
• Install a continuous learning culture throughout the organisation ensuring employees have access to stretching experiences and great learning content that fuels constant growth in their capabilities and our business performance.
• Build impactful teams, coaching exec and extended leadership leaders and line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance culture to enables outstanding performance.
• Enable the culture transformation within the functions including the continued embedding of the Dial Up Behaviours, supporting and challenging leaders to adopt agility and speed, and driving accountability for bold and confident decision making.
• Unlock performance and support to create high performing teams with distributors partners.

• Business acumen, able to engage in business development decisions with significant credibility
• Entrepreneurial flare; courageous and capable of handling ambiguity
• Results driven and thorough in approach
• Resourceful and critical thinking.
• Results driven, proactive, executional.
• Great leadership and influencing/coaching skills, including senior partners.
• Demonstrable experience as an HR professional. Experience in different HR areas such as talent, reward & HRBP; ER is preferable.
• People-orientated and strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach
• Analytical and strong problem-solving skills with a positive demeanor and empathetic in approach

• Unique Family Leave opportunity
• Opportunity to work across market and cultures
• You will deal with world class brand portfolio
• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop