Talent Engagement Manager , Australia (6-months FTC)

Job Title

Talent Engagement Manager, Australia (6 months Full time contractor)
Location

Australia

Contract Term

6 months Contract

Reports into

Head of Talent Engagement, APAC
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.

Our Australian head office including on-site bar is located in Sydney and it's the main site for our marketing, innovation, commercial, and corporate function teams. We also have a large manufacturing site located in Sydney's west, a team of versatile and dedicated people at our Bundaberg Distillery in Queensland including our award-winning visitor experience, and a sales force located across the country in our major capitals and regional areas.

Diageo is known for its high-performance culture and our success comes from harnessing the power of inclusion and the diversity of all our over 400 employees across Australia. Our flexible working policy isn't just words on a page at Diageo Australia. We have embedded a leading flexible working philosophy and culture in our business supported and role modelled by our most senior leaders.
Role Overview

Talent Engagement's ambition is to be elite recruiting function focused on engaging, attracting and hiring the very best and most diverse talent for Diageo. The Talent Engagement Manager (TEM) is a critical role that is passionate about ensuring the consistent delivery and an excellent candidate experience to achieve Diageo's Talent Ambition, whether through an internal move or an external mid-career hire. The role is deeply connected to the business by market and/or function and enables business performance delivery. Below are some key accountabilities of the role. Based in Sydney, you will be responsible for one of our biggest markets in APAC, Australia.
Role Responsibilities

• Deliver the best quality candidates at the shortlist stage of the hiring process allowing a hiring manager to select the best fit for their vacancy. The focus is on delivering an outstanding candidate and line manager experience at pace with the focus around critical and key roles.
• Work closely with the HR and business to be hire ahead of the curve and identify internal talent pool and where this is not possible potential external candidates
• Provide expertise in the resourcing, hiring and talent planning process and will be a coach and mentor to their client group and will model the leadership standards and facilitating talent moves and hires.
• Leverage and optimise the global Employer Brand and deploy creative sourcing strategies to seek for the best talent for Diageo and develop strong pipelines to fill known and anticipated talent gaps, whether externally or internally.
• Be a true business partner with hiring managers and HR colleagues in all talent discussions to ensure the accurate level of tension is brought to conversations around taking bolder bets with internal talent.
• Be Externally curious for talent and process; brings external insights into internal talent calibration conversations; experiment with diverse talent pools and talent profiles.
• Measures outcomes and makes relevant and appropriate course corrections quickly if required. Knows and understand the performance metrics that drive the TE function and how these are influences and impacted through their mind set, behaviours and actions.

Experience / Skills Required

• Demonstrable experience in end-end recruitment process with a search agency or a corporate environment.
• Ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders and candidates in a fast paced environment
• Experience of leading senior mid-career hiring
• Strong external radar and awareness of external talent insights
• Ability to generate insight from data and generate action plans from data insights
• Have outstanding consultative skills and be able to influence action and change with line managers
• Track record of bringing a stretching Inclusion & Diversity strategy to life through the executive talent agenda
• Have an understanding of the component parts of HR to understand how it is possible to deliver a high quality service to a client group
• An ability to work in the most confidential situations gaining trust and respect from candidates and hiring managers.

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 realise 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