Jobs at Diageo

Jobs at Diageo

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. Jobs at Diageo

1. Team assistant
2. Legal Counsel – Corporate
3. Business Development Manager – Key Strategic Outlets

Team assistant

Jobs at Diageo

Purpose of Role & Leadership Responsibilities

The Team assistant role is responsible for carrying out administrative duties for the team they support, champion team an engagement and culture withing the function. delivering This role manages a range of relationships with stakeholders across the region and globally.

The role has no direct reports.

Role Responsibilities

• Conduct administrative responsibilities and co-ordination of the Marketing function, corporate relations function, external stakeholders, agencies and global stakeholders. This includes diary management, meetings and events and travel support.
• General administrative support of the team such as records management and Gift and Entertainments, maintaining a contact and relations with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assisting in drafting, circulating and replying to various correspondence and responding to routine administrative queries both internal and external
• Facilitate resources required for meetings as well as ensuring all minutes and pre-reads are circulated beforehand.
• Stakeholder management- Ensuring all internal and External stakeholders of the function are well attended to.
• Budget Management: prepare and monitor the department’s budget and follow up to ensure that costs are charged to the correct Cost Centre in a timely manner.
• Champion team culture and engagement and collaboration within the functions you support through various team activities.
• Event Management- including identifying appropriate venues, making travel arrangements, accommodation bookings and hospitality for participants.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience Required

A business-related degree or equivalent.

Experience And Skill

• 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Strong commercial or marketing exposure and understanding.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent planning and organizing skills with ability to multi task.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly important for managing expectations with stakeholders and external partners.

Competencies

Leadership

• Win through Execution- Lead bold execution in a fast-moving world.
• Inspire through Purpose- amplify our purpose internally and externally.
• Shape the Future- create focus and ownership for shaping Diageo’s future ambition.
• Invest in Talent- harness the full extent of Diageo’s talent and diversity.

Dial up Behaviors.

• Be externally Curious- Seek deep external insights, anticipate trends and adapt quickly
• Collaborate Efficiently- create an environment where people challenge openly, make decisions with only essential input and share and embrace what works.
• Experiment and Learn- Aim high and disrupt, try innovative solutions, accommodate failure and learning.
• Act Decisively- Choose progress over perfection, prioritize and commit to decisions and deliver for the business.

Functional

• Administrative
• Communication
• Relationship management
• Champion Culture and Engagement.

Legal Counsel – Corporate

Jobs at Diageo

Specific Accountabilities

This role is a senior management role within EABL Kenya. The role is generalist in nature charged with facilitating general counselling and legal support to the total EABL business and its subsidiaries. The role holder will generally perform any duties as a general legal counsel as may be assigned by the Group Legal Director from time to time.

The role holder will be expected to shape and implement strategy in the following areas: –

• Act as the principal EABL Group Legal Business Partner.
• Lead the EABL Legal Function corporate governance agenda across the EABL Group.
• Be the principal Business partner for Finance, HR and Corporate Relations with direct linkage and accountability to the EABL Legal Director, EABL Group HRD, EABL Chief Financial Officer and the EABL Corporate Relations Director.
• Be the principal lawyer responsible for overseeing all Company Secretarial work across the region in conjunction with the EABL Company Secretary and the legal directors.
• Be responsible for end-to-end handling of tax matters across EABL. Lead EABL Group reporting and filing obligations across the markets working in conjunction with the EABL Legal team and other internal and external stakeholders. This includes ensuring that the EABL Group has relevant licences and permits, and the role holder shall have a thorough understanding of the Group’s policies and procedures of corporate governance.
• Spearhead innovations, continuous improvement, and creativity for the entire legal business in the function by implementing an efficient legal operations model across EABL.
• Ensure that the Legal Function is effective in all its operations and engagements with key stakeholders and drive productivity across the function and its service providers.
• Act as a senior member of the Legal Leadership team and take accountability for functional results in all areas of operation.
• Undertake any other role within the Legal department as a generalist.

Industry & Practice Skills

The job holder shall provide in-house legal support primarily to EABL and all its subsidiaries as and when directed, in the areas below: –

• Counselling on Alcohol Science and the role of alcohol in society
• Litigation, Disputes & Risk Management – including product liability litigation issues.
• Management of Tax issues within the general business ranging from excise tax and other tax drivers in order to ensure that the business is tax efficient and compliant.
• Data Protection and Records Management across the business
• Management of Trade and Distribution issues
• Counselling on all matters relating to Marketing and Innovations
• Regulatory Management and counselling – including innovation.
• Advocacy and engagement internally and externally. This includes management of external affairs and engagement with key business stakeholders in conjunction with Corporate Relations
• Understand and manage Competition law issues across the business.
• Intellectual Property Management & Brand Protection – a critical awareness and understanding of how to manage anti-illicit trade matters across the business.
• Industrial relations, employment and labour laws and HR counselling – including conflict management.
• Management of Corporate Governance, Statutory Compliance, Licensing and Internal Control issues.
• Maintain and enforce ethical and business integrity standards and policies including conducting complex investigations and anti-fraud management.
• Total Business partner support to the EABL Business
• Management of External Counsel and other Service Providers to execute the business strategy.
• A working knowledge of Company law, listing rules and public company management principles.
• Advice and support to the Total Legal function which includes Brand Protection, Corporate Security, Records Management and Legal Counsel.
• Delivery of the Business strategy and supporting the EABL Group and Diageo legal and business strategies.
• Any other roles and responsibilities to be performed by Legal Manager as determined by the Legal Director.

Working in a highly regulated, celebrated and sometimes polarizing industry, the role holder needs to be proactive as well as reactive to various internal and external challenges in order to detect new threats and ensure efficient and proactive control of the legal environment.

Operational/Business Accountabilities

• Provide effective management of legal risk to drive sustainable growth.
• Provide professional service-delivery and assistance to management across business functions.
• Monitor and advise the business on statutory compliance, regulatory and legislative issues in Kenya.
• Maintain visibility and awareness on all litigations and disputes affecting EABL in Kenya and elsewhere.

Management Accountabilities

• Participate and contribute to cross functional projects and initiatives to minimize legal risks and ensure achievement of the business objectives.
• Ensure an improved control environment in the EABL business.
• Ensure the optimization of monetary and support resource use in the business.
• Conflict Navigation and dispute resolution across the business
• Effective cost and Budget management based on a good knowledge of business finance issues.

Leadership Responsibilities

• The role holder will be a key member of the EABL Legal Leadership Team, represent Legal in cross functional meetings and will closely interface with the EABL and its subsidiaries and Diageo legal teams.
• The role will provide leadership to the brand protection, legal operations and information management & data security teams.
• Drive, embed, support, implement and achieve the strategic plans and objectives of the Legal Function in line with the business strategy as determined by the Legal Director.
• Identify new initiatives and proposals, aligned with the Legal function’s strategic plan and the Company’s strategy and values to ensure legal operates at the heart of the business, as both effective risk managers and business partners.
• Continuously develop technical and managerial skills and acting as a leader and role model in the business.

Relationships

• Communicate effectively in order to solve problems and offer solutions across the Business.
• Regular communication, sharing of knowledge and learnings are expected between the team members to ensure cohesion and collaboration within the Diageo Legal team.
• Build and maintain good relationships with experts in the legal field, and the private sector.
• Build strategic relationships with key stakeholders and partners to drive key business and legal results including relevant Regulators, Government & County agencies, Business Organizations, external lawyers, service providers.

Innovation

• Enable the business to achieve its business objectives in a legally compliant way while unlocking commercial opportunity through good practice.
• Preserve value (financial and reputational) by minimizing the risk of value leakage and litigation and maintaining compliance with laws and policies.
• Continually seek ways to optimize and improve systems and work processes to drive efficiency and reduce costs including use of technology
• Ensure that the business receives high quality support to achieve set objectives.

Qualifications, Skills And Experience Required

• Formal legal qualifications and training.
• Strong commercial law and litigation background.
• A good working knowledge of the following legal areas – contracts, product liability, IP, employment, antitrust, litigation, marketing.
• A track record of effectively and proactively managing external lawyers generally and in relation to a large outsourced litigation caseload.
• Good experience in negotiating and drafting commercial arrangements like contracts (e.g. procurement and marketing) and other business ventures.
• Proactive, open and outward looking attitude.
• Strong inter-personal/communication skills.
• Ability to work confidently and stand ground with more senior managers.
• Strong commercial and pragmatic approach.
• Ability to work with line manager and others as a team.
• At least 10 years post qualification experience as a lawyer.
• Experience as a people manager in matrix organizations.

Business Development Manager – Key Strategic Outlets

Jobs at Diageo

The Business Development Manager – KSO role manages all home trade channels, All supermarkets & convenience stores, Hotels, Clubs, & Member Clubs, High Energy bars and manages the development and execution of Key Accounts’ plans to achieve mutually defined objectives, profits/NSV and brand growth targets.

The candidate is expected to understand the commercial opportunity, develop strategy and execution plans that are delivered through high level joint up business plans, to drive performance management.

Role Responsibilities

Understand the Commercial Opportunity

• Brand & Category Knowledge – Persuasively sell the key features and customer benefits of Diageo’s brands and categories.
• Customer Understanding – Create Joint Business Plans with your customers based on their needs, motivations, P&L and growth drivers.
• Outlet Segmentation – Know your outlet universe and map outlets into territories based on the market’s segmentation guidelines.

Develop Strategy and Plan Execution

• Develop Key Accounts Management Program and Business Plans with Distributor owners / with KPIs maximizing our RTM value chain and working to drive both volume “Push and “Pull” within both distributors and at the retail end.
• To define and deliver stretching Key Accounts business plans and the strategy for their implementation around a total alcohol, one portfolio approach
• Identify emerging trade trends and insights. Able to build activity plans at Key Accounts level and innovatively implement at retail.
• Plan and Develop Execution Standards – know everyday minimum execution standard for the customers and teams reporting to you. Understand the 365 essentials principles and translate the same to execution standards.
• Core selling skills -Coach and mentor the divisional sales team and external 3rd parties ensuring compliance to DWWS standards.
• Activation and Execution – Collaborate with customers to build longer term execution plans which you track to ensure standards are being met creating course correction measures where necessary.
• Negotiation – Lead longer term customer negotiation to create a ‘win, win, win’ for both sides pre-condition parties to set and change power base, using and handling negotiation tactics.

Manage Performance

• Commercial Acumen – A deep understanding of financial levers and coach the team to use the levers to positively impact KBL and the customer’s P&L.
• Customer Performance review – create joint performance metrics with all/ the most important customers and key internal stakeholders ensuring the most effective allocation of resources and investments to drive growth.
• Commercial Functional Coaching – spend at minimum the market’s defined time conducting trade accompaniments and use AID, BOOST, EDIC and GROW to ensure feedback is focused on enhancing the team’s capabilities to drive growth.
• Managing Promotional Execution – deliver AOP through rigorous execution of all promotions and ensuring review against execution metrics through the BRM process.
• Execution Standards – drive and track your execution standards on an ongoing basis and intervene in order to achieve your targets.
• Measure and Evaluate – Total trade investment evaluation to understand the potential margin impact of future planned activities in KBL and Customer’s P&L to ensure maximum return on investment decisions.

Governance – Risks and Controls

• Embedding the Diageo standards of Excellence as the way of working
• Adherence to controls and compliance, Code of Business Conduct, global and local standards, policies, applicable manuals and health and safety requirements in the work environment.

Qualifications

Qualifications, Experience, and Leadership

A business-related degree or equivalent.

Experience and Skill

• 3-6 years’ experience in a similar role
• Strong commercial exposure and acumen.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence multiple stakeholders.
• Strong people performance – able to inspire and mobilize people (both direct reports and a broad range of others) to deliver great results.
• Strong project management skills – able to manage multiple projects and execute them all well.
• Expertise in shaping media-worthy narratives that tap into consumer passion points and drive visibility and engagement at scale.
• Deep knowledge of local media landscape and cultural trends to develop revolutionary communication plans.
• Ability to work in a complex matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.
• Interest in cultural territories and communities such as food, fashion, film, music, digital lifestyle etc.

Competencies

Leadership

• Win through Execution- Lead bold execution in a fast-moving world.
• Inspire through Purpose- amplify our purpose internally and externally.
• Shape the Future- create focus and ownership for shaping Diageo’s future ambition.
• Invest in Talent- harness the full extent of Diageo’s talent and diversity.

Dial up Behavior.

• Be externally Curious- Seek deep external insights, anticipate trends and adapt quickly
• Collaborate Efficiently- create an environment where people challenge openly, make decisions with only essential input and share and embrace what works.
• Experiment and Learn- Aim high and disrupt, try innovative solutions, accommodate failure and learning.
• Act Decisively- Choose progress over perfection, prioritize and commit to decisions and deliver for the business.

Functional Competence

• Understand the commercial opportunity.
• Develop Strategy and Execute plans.
• Manage Performance
• Coaching

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• Legal Counsel – Corporate
• Team assistant
• Business Development Manager – Key Strategic Outlets

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