Head Of HR - Benelux & Nordics

Job Title: Head of HR - Benelux & Nordics

Contract Type: Permanent, full time

Location: Amsterdam

At Diageo, there are two core assets that drive growth across our business: our brands and our people. They drive one another. The HR Function sits at the heart of this.

Based in Amsterdam, the Head of HR for Benelux & Nordics 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.

The role has significant people leadership responsibility; therefore you will need to lead, inspire and develop a high performing HR team professionals with HRBP´s and COE roles and role model as a business leader into the organization.

Key objectives and specific accountabilities include:

• 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 are able to 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.

About you:

• Business acumen, able to engage in business development decisions with significant credibility.
• Entrepreneurial flare; courageous and capable of managing ambiguity.
• Results driven and thorough in approach.
• Resourceful and critical thinking.
• Results driven, proactive, executional.
• Great leadership and influencing/coaching skills, including senior partners and able to create a one team attitude and culture across countries and teams.
• Demonstrable experience as HR professional. Experience in the different HR areas 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 attitude and empathetic in approach.

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

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, 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!