Job Vacancies at Diageo

Purpose of Role

• The Culture, Influencer & Advocacy team will be responsible for fostering brand thought leadership and enhancing brand reputation by developing a culture strategy that defines cultural platforms, gives a framework for strategy to execution and defines detailed in-culture strategy to execution for all strategic brands. This team is also charged with identifying, negotiating and executing strategic in-culture partnerships (platforms and influencers) across the region.
• This role requires a deep understanding of current cultural trends, experiential and sponsorship marketing models and brand partnership capabilities, excellent communication skills, and the ability to build strong relationships with partners and stakeholders

Top Accountabilities

• Build a holistic SWC culture strategy with specific culture plans for all strategic brands: identify cultural platforms, build brand specific cultural calendars, negotiate and implement ideal experiential campaigns plus brand sponsorship & partnership models that will benefit strategic brands across SWC
• Grow brand MDS scores through relevant and authentic experiential marketing augmented by brand partnerships/sponsorships that build brand in-culture thought leadership and are embedded in Marketing Business Plans: develop, negotiate and execute in-culture growth experiences, sponsorship and partnership thought drivers, oversee the creation of compelling content tailored to engage both internal and external audiences, co-ordinate content distribution across various channels, including social media, blogs, and other digital platforms. Monitor content performance metrics and adjust strategies accordingly to optimize reach and engagement.
• Driving Brand Visibility and Engagement: Ensure that Diageo's brands actively participate in consumer conversations, crafting stories and content that are not only newsworthy but also captivating to influencers, ultimately driving consumer engagement, shareability, and talkability.
• Cultural Relevance and Integration: Take responsibility for understanding local culture, conversations, and tensions, ensuring that Diageo brands authentically integrate into these cultural spaces through compelling stories, content, and campaign executions.
• Embedding Editorial Mindset: Lead efforts to instill an editorial mindset within the business, ensuring that brand plans consistently tell a cohesive story that leverages culturally relevant moments to drive momentum and reach, while also spearheading cultural calendar initiatives to enhance brand relevance.
• Partnership Management: cultivate and maintain relationships with external partners, including influencers, industry organizations, and community groups. Collaborate with partners on co-branded initiatives, events, and campaigns to amplify reach and impact. Evaluate partnership effectiveness and ROI, making recommendations for future collaborations.
• Measurement and Analytics: establish KPIs and metrics to measure the success of culture and influencer marketing initiatives. Utilize analytics tools to track performance, analyze trends, and identify areas for improvement. Prepare regular reports and presentations for senior leadership, highlighting achievements and opportunities.
• Budget Management: Develop and manage budgets for experiential, sponsorship and partnership marketing activities, ensuring optimal allocation of resources. Track expenses, manage vendor contracts, and negotiate cost-effective solutions. Provide regular updates on budget utilization and forecasts to senior leadership.
• Team Leadership and Development: Provide leadership and guidance to the experiences, sponsorships and partnerships marketing team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Identify training and development opportunities to enhance team skills and capabilities. Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide feedback to team members.
• Embedding Brilliant Execution: Manage events, sponsorships and stakeholders’ engagement regularly to ensure brilliant execution for brands across the portfolio. This will require a minimum of 70% customer, consumer and external stakeholder facing engagements and will include weekends.

Qualifications, Experience, and leadership

• 5 years + experience in marketing in IPS and/or FMCG/Luxury good categories. Candidates with similar experience in peer companies will have an added advantage.
• A deep knowledge of what it takes to get into consumer conversation and confidently drive the Marketing Team and business to follow this.
• Track record of bringing successful new thinking into a business, leading business change and experience of experimentation and failure
• Possess passion for the function and a drive to always push and apply new approaches/thinking from plans through to execution at pace
• Can set a vision and create possibilities for brands and follow through to brilliant execution
• Possess real passion for embedding brands in culture, and a drive to always push and apply new approaches/thinking from plans through to execution with a digital first mindset across PR, Social media & Content management.

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About the role: 

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance activities to ensure plant equipment and assets operate reliably and efficiently
• Work at T1 & T2 level to effectively manage Work Planning & Control business process 
• Effectively manage and optimise internal and external maintenance resources, time, and material. 
• Interpret and analyse data and action to improve asset care practice and performance  
• Coach and engage operational teams across business areas of responsibility in order that Asset Care is prioritised and owned by Operations  
• Ensure Work planning and scheduling key performance indicators are managed and communicated, and improvement actions agreed. 
• Ensures maintenance work orders are properly planned, prioritized, and executed with minimal disruption to operations using systems such as SAP ERP.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Ensure adherence to Health & Safety, Environmental & Quality Standards. 
• Ensure compliance to maintenance regulatory standards within the area. 
• Work with Maintenance Leaders and Craft teams to identify areas of plant under performance and support improvement plans   
• Responsible for management of SAP data integrity with respect to plant and equipment structures, maintenance plans, task lists and work orders for business area(s) of responsibility in accordance with Diageo Work Planning and Scheduling standards 
• Work with Asset Care Leaders and Asset Care Technicians to ensure work requests undergo adequate technical assessment and planning prior to scheduling work  
• Engage and coach stores teams to support effective and efficient planning through use of job kitting in accordance with Diageo Work Planning and Scheduling standards 
• Support & energise deployment of the MMS Asset Care strategy and practice at business area(s) of responsibility with Equipment Owners, Asset Care Technicians and operators  
• Lead weekly Asset Care integrated planning meeting providing scheduled maintenance requirements, performance reporting and agree improvement actions with stakeholders  
• Support Daily Operational Review meetings to report Asset Care performance and support actions to improve compliance and performance. 
• Action any non-completion of scheduled work to prioritise and reschedule 
• Continuously follow leader standard work and ensure weekly maintenance schedules optimise use of resource time and materials  
• Continuously drive for the next level of performance. Be bold on action planning and delivery  
• Develop team morale, recognise great performance and take timely action to address under performance where necessary 
• Ensure safety compliance Have appropriate behavioural safety conversations - comfortable challenging each other and visitors  
• Demonstrate self-awareness and own development plan  
• Commit to grow own capability and experience to the benefit of self, your team and Diageo.  
• Prepare and complete own P4G documentation. Be receptive to feedback and willing to learn from mistakes 
• Standard working hours are Monday to Friday, [07:00 – 16:00].
• The role may require occasional overtime, weekend work, or extended hours to support maintenance shutdowns, urgent repairs, or operational requirements.

Experience / skills required: 

Qualifications 

• City & Guilds / ONC / Polytechnic level qualification in either manufacturing, electrical, mechanical or instrumentation- Trade test.
• 3–5 years’ experience in maintenance planning or scheduling in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience using maintenance management systems such as SAP ERP/ S/4HANA.
• Strong planning, coordination, and communication skills.

Essential 

• Experienced in data analysis, use of applications (excel, word, etc.) and business systems (SAP, Harford, etc.) 
• Experienced in a manufacturing /maintenance environment, good communication skills both written and verbal, root cause analyses problems solving skills.
• Proficiency in maintenance management systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellence in Supply Chain 
• Understands and uses MMS principles tools and techniques.
• Understand ManEx and continues improvement tools.

Critical Skills Required

• Functional Skills
• Emergency preparedness and awareness
• Incident reporting and investigation
• Run The Business (RTB)
• ITF Governance
• 3 Tiers of Problem Solving
• Loss and Waste Analysis
• Team Work Fundamentals
• AM Principles

Technical Skills

• SAP PM scheduling and planning management
• Asset Management
• Procurement & Inventory Management
• People management
• Project Management
• Asset Care Best Practice
• Analyse SAP data input and output