HR Business Partner - Littleconnell Brewery

at  Diageo

Job Description :
Job Title: Human Resources Business Partner
Location: Littleconnell Brewery, Kildare, Ireland
Role Type: Permanent - Full time
About us:
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future!
About our new brewery in Kildare:
Diageo’s new €200 million pioneering carbon neutral brewery in Newbridge, Co. Kildare will brew lagers and ales including Rockshore, Harp, Smithwick’s, Kilkenny and Carlsberg. With a capacity of 2 million hectolitres, it will be the second largest brewing operation in Ireland after St. James’s Gate and support the future growth of Diageo Ireland’s beer brands.
The state-of-the-art brewery will be powered with 100% renewable energy and will harness the latest process technology to minimise overall energy and water consumption. The target date for the brewery to begin production is 2026 and it will facilitate the growth of overall beer exports from Ireland. It will also facilitate enhanced capacity for the production of the fast-growing Guinness 0.0 at the traditional home of Guinness at St James’s Gate in Dublin.
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 culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.
Human Resources 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 talent, empowering you to be the best you can be.
About the role:
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. The role of our Business Partners is to ensure we have the right conditions in place to develop and release the potential of our talent, our leaders and their teams. We are there to challenge and support in equal measure; to help strategically shape the future organisation to deliver the biggest possible outcomes. The purpose of the role is to be an agile, connected and accountable partner to the Little Connell Site Leadership teams enabling growth and performance through focussing on the five pillars of our Global HR Strategy: Continuous Learning, Innovative Approach to Talent, Inclusion & Diversity, Speed, Focus & Simplicity & Fulfilling Employee Experiences. In addition, the role holder will be an integral part of the wider teams working with Beer Category and Global Supply Chain & Procurement.
Market Complexity
This role operates across the full Beer Category and wider Supply Chain & Procurement. It is critical that the incumbent can navigate the matrix organisation, lead through others, build solid relationships and influence within all levels of the business.
Leadership Responsibilities
This role leads the people agenda across for a greenfield site. As well as being a member of the Beer HR team the role is also a member of the Site Operational Leadership Teams in these areas. It utilises our Global Centres of Excellence and shared service colleagues in pursuit of this.

Top Accountabilities

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and innovative talent plans which includes robust organisational planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career paths for people to fuel their development.
• Own the Organisation Effectiveness agenda for Little Connell and provide input to the broader plan for Beer Category – using data and analytics to create solutions that result in pioneering performance, delivers cost efficiencies and injects the right reinvestments.
• Drive the DEI agenda tailored to the sites across all HR levers (talent, reward, culture, learning, etc) that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feel valued for their uniqueness and can increase their impact.
• Support the development of high performing teams, coaching line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance culture to enables outstanding performance and fulfilling employee experiences collaborating with HR shared service teams and our Centres of Excellence.
• Instil 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. Partner with Global Learning and site Capability Manager in pursuit of this.

Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities

• Excellent talent judgement – ability to assess talent gaps, and suggest actions needed to strengthen succession plans and talent pipelines.
• Being able to excel when dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and matrixed environment.
• Ability to understand and drive insights from HR data, analysing to measure impacts, assess OE plans, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes.
• Deep personal accountability for great performance
• Ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect.
• Successful collaboration and influencing across a variety of collaborators at all levels, resulting in strong and positive outcomes.
• Change and project management skills (including influencing change)
• Experience working in a unionised environment.
• Collaborating with and coaching business leaders to add valuable contributions through seeing each scenario through the lens of both the business objective and how the people strategy drives and facilitates this.
• An innate curiosity to understand what drives the business and how the varying agendas across each function and business area give towards driving the Category forward.

Working with Us
Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including annual bonus, product allowance, 6 fully months paid parental leave, private medical insurance, share options, contributory pension scheme.
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 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.
Diversity statement:
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
Be you with us!
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Littleconnell Brewery
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-01-1

Please refer the Job description for details