Employee Engagement Manager

Job Title: Employee Engagement Manager

About us

Diageo GB is the home market of Diageo PLC and the company’s second largest market in the world. We are the leading alcohol beverage company in GB, with the number one beer (Guinness), number one vodka (Smirnoff), number on gin (Gordon’s) and number one rum (Captain Morgan).

Our vision is to be famous for inspiring consumers & customers and being the best CPG employer and partner in our market, with an employee culture built on the three pillars of: inspire; focus; impact.

The Employee Engagement Manager has a critical role in defining and delivering our culture strategy and plans.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

About the Function:

Our Corporate Relations (CR) team are reputation experts, shaping and protecting the future of our business and much-loved brands. Leading all aspects of relationships with press, investors, government bodies, NGOs, and partners.

Operating across different markets, brands, and business areas including Corporate Communications, Policy and ESG, we collaborate with people all around the world. Join our team of experts, and you'll play a crucial role in protecting and promoting who we are and what we do, and ultimately our licence to operate.

About the team:

Corporate Relations (CR) has a critical leadership role in protecting and promoting Diageo’s reputation and licence to operate, working to unlock value in service of our Performance Ambition. The work of the function contributes directly to our ambition to become the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer goods company in the world.

Communications is a key enabler of Diageo’s Performance Ambition, to become the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world. Effective communication enables the delivery of our Performance Ambition. Reputation and employee engagement are fundamental drivers of consistent, sustainable business performance.

We aim to build and sustain belief in Diageo’s strategy and positively differentiate Diageo as a company founded on a clear purpose, strong values and consistent performance. We want to build world class advocacy with our employees and support the creation of the most inclusive culture, where high performing teams of engaged employees continue to learn and have what they need to deliver their best work. We intend to establish Diageo as the best place to work; for how we treat our people, how we invest, develop and empower the best talent, and how we promote diversity and inclusion in everything we do.

The Employee Engagement Lead will be responsible for driving engagement with employees in the Diageo GB market business.

About the role:

The GB Employee Engagement Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of our employee engagement activity, developing our strategic approach to engagement and delivering brilliantly executed communication and events.

The role-holder will take the lead responsibility for creating an inspiring, focused and impactful culture, with highly engaged and motivated employees who understand and buy into the vision for the business. The role requires outstanding critical thinking, creative ideas, and skillful management of team members and projects. Being a highly collaborative standout colleague who is comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously is also critical.

Other core capabilities:

Financial - Management of relevant budgets

Market complexity - This role sits in the GB CR team but will involve close working with GB functions, global corporate relations and GB Executive Team.

Role Responsibilities:

• Own the design, development and delivery of Employee Engagement strategy & plan in close collaboration with the GB Exec.
• Develop and implement a strategic EE comms plan throughout the year, including consistent comms and engagement platforms for the GB Exec and Managing Director.
• Drive year-round calendar of events and engagement with employees including town halls, brand events, digital communications and other methods of engaging and inspiring Diageo GB employees.
• Manage external agencies to develop content for employee engagement and deliver key events, maximising value from spend and impact of delivery.
• Ensure consistent and compelling messaging, ensuring that complex and technical business content is accessible, meaningful and easy to understand for Diageo’s diverse audiences.
• Plan and project management the delivery of inspirational and impactful total GB employee conferences.
• Proactively engage with CR colleagues in markets and global to search and spin new engagement ideas and to provide leadership, positioning GB as a best-in-class market for Employee Engagement.
• Be a proactive influencer, content creator and storyteller, living the GB values and culture and inspiring others to do the same.

Experience / skills required:

• Strong critical thinking and planning skills.
• Good commercial business understanding
• Proven skill in persuading and engaging senior team members, with a solid background in employee engagement.
• Creative communicator capable of using all channels of communication to drive advocacy
• Event management and project management skills
• Proven experience operating within agile, cross-functional teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven track-record supporting the development and deployment of impactful, creative and progressive engagement campaigns
• Strong working knowledge of digital and social media to drive reach an impact
• Ability to identify and lead third parties, ensuring that we get the best out of our agency relationships

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities 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, attitudes, 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. 

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