Sr. Manager - L&D and I&D

About us

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Job Title: Senior Manager - Learning & Development and Inclusion & Diversity

Reporting to: Head - Talent, Learning, OE and I&D

Purpose of the Role:

Learning & Development: Enhance organizational capability by maximizing the value of talent by building brilliant leaders for a future ready organization; design, implementation and evaluation of leadership and management development strategies, initiatives and programs that would enable the organization to build leadership capabilities & culture building

Inclusion & Diversity: Work on building and creating the most inclusive and diverse culture that ensures all our people thrive and shape market-leading policies and practices that is in line with our global and local people strategic priorities

Top Accountabilities:

Learning & Development:

• In consultation with the functional LT and HRBPs will understand the specific challenges of capability development and align all learning activities with the business strategy strengthening people capabilities to meet current & future business challenges
• Leveraging the functional subject matter expertise to build the right capabilities and support other talent management initiatives activities across the organization
• Responsible for continuous capability development focusing on advanced learning technologies - on line tools, contents and systems developing a strong learning culture
• Source and deploy internal and external resources to ensure leadership assessment & development solutions are impactful, timely, cost effective and in accordance with the learning objectives
• Is the custodian to manage end to end delivery of Diageo signature programs ensuring that delivery standards and governance are met
• Develop and roll-out frameworks to capture development plans for all employees
• Work closely with Diageo Leadership Development team to co-create, refine, and cascade relevant leadership assessment & development interventions for India Market
• Coach/influence and roll out managerial effectiveness initiatives and communication programs to continuously re-enforce leadership demonstration
• Conceptualize and anchor relationship-based learning models like executive coaching, group coaching and mentoring for Diageo India and build internal coaches through powerful TTT interventions

Inclusion & Diversity:

• Partner with Senior Business Leaders and HR Leadership team in Diageo India, alongside partnering with global I&D team and define our current and future strategy and progressive plans to deliver our I&D ambitions
• Play an active role in the engagement and communications of our I&D progress and plans across the business, including bringing leadership and strategic guidance to our ERGs

About You:

• Fluent English & a master's degree in HR
• At least 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Integrated Talent Management Leadership (Talent Mapping, Talent Planning, Talent Development, Talent Identification, Talent Engagement)
• Ability to drive change in a matrix environment and manage, partner and influence senior stakeholders
• Ability to build strong relationships and influence within all levels of the business
• Experience in progressive business partnering with executives
• Demonstrated ability to build high performing teams, line leaders
• Ability to drive culture change and build diverse and inclusive strategies
• Ability to lead from strategic thinking through to execution, making bold choices that champion change, alongside ability to drive execution through others

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 inclusion and 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 ways. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.