HRBP Supply (KZN based)

Job Title: HRBP Supply

About the Function:

Our Human Resources (HR) team bring brilliant people together to help us continue building iconic brands. We harness the diverse talents of our people to help them excel. We champion an inclusive and collaborative culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.

HR is at the heart of markets around the world, finding and developing talent that will unearth new ideas and inspire innovation. From creative problem solvers and entrepreneurs to scientists and engineers - whatever your experience and ideas, we'll help you to harness your talents, empowering you to be the best you can be.

Purpose of Role

The purpose of this role is to partner with the Supply function in executing the people agenda to drive business performance. This includes considerations for talent, employee experience and engagement, organisational effectiveness, as well as utilisation and deployment of global programmes, tools, policies, and frameworks, ensuring Diageo remain attractive to external talent and internal talent thrives and delivers outstanding performance.

Top Accountabilities

• Culture: Uses data and insights including from engagement surveys, to inform initiatives and actions that will unlock culture of high performance where talent thrives and has access to development and growth opportunities.
• Organizational Effectiveness and capabilities: Constantly review and ensure that the operating model is efficiently designed to deliver business strategy and that the right capabilities are in place to deliver performance.
• Talent: Drive disruptive strategies to identify, retain and grow talent for total Diageo while ensuring that internal and external Inclusion and Diversity ambitions are achieved and that our value proposition is competitive. Ensure rigor in the end-to-end talent management process, including succession planning, planned talent mobility, and regular pulse check with top talent.
• Coaching for performance: Coaches both the functional leaders and their teams to deliver breakthrough performance, as well as demonstrate rigor in people development approach.
• Employee Relations: Work with functional leaders to maintain a positive employee relations environment and that business is conducted with integrity, lead/oversee investigations and disciplinary hearings while ensuring compliance to local laws.

Qualifications, Experience, and leadership

Degree in a relevant field and strong functional HR experience.

An experienced business partner with a track record of driving for performance in partnership with business leaders within multi-national matrixed companies.

Experience in Labour relations and Supply environment is preferred.

• Brings depth of understanding of market/function dynamics in as far as talent, reward, learning, amongst others, are concerned.
• Make bold strategic choices that deliver for the short and long term.
• Has an acute focus on performance and results, is highly accountable, problem solver and determined to win.
• Demonstrates pace and urgency, responding quickly to emerging threats and opportunities.
• Personally resilient - able to maintain emotional balance in the face of pressure and high-performance expectation.
• Leading change - is courageous in their thinking about what is possible and has a track record of leading transformation.
• Adept at building relationships with a broad range of external and internal stakeholders and demonstrated ability to influence across a matrix organisation.
• Proven ability to influence, persuade, facilitate, and build credibility at all levels within the business.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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

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Client-provided location(s): Durban, South Africa

Job ID: Diageo-JR1121771

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-21T23:55:44