Human Resources Director, Japan

Job Description :

From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of ambitious possibilities. From our iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Talisker, Smirnoff, Tanqueray, to the recent mega dynamic Don Julio 1942, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of determined, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating.

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 Director role sits at the heart of this, ensuring we have the right conditions in place to develop and release the potential of our talent; our leaders and their teams. The role is to partner with the business, to challenge and support in equal measure; to help strategically shape the future organisation to deliver the biggest possible performance outcomes at optimal cost and in the most efficient and effective way, externally benchmarking to ensure we deliver on our ambition to be No. 1 Consumer Goods Company. Creating a future-fit, digital, and sustainable organisation and leveraging and further building the distinctive Diageo culture will be key to success.

The HRD’s remit covers the Japan market partnering effectively with the Japan Leadership Team and the broader stakeholders in Asia-Pacific to drive the short and long-term growth agenda, to delivering sustainable commercial success of the Japan business and drive a progressive workplace for the future. The HRD will also support delivery of Asia-Pacific Regional initiatives when required.

The role will be accountable for leading the people agenda to drive and being a brilliant performance partner to enable accelerated growth in line with our ambition for the Japan market. The HRD is accountable for creating the people strategy for the business, enabling growth and performance through our HR Strategic priorities of Talent; Inclusion and Diversity; Advantaged Capabilities; Culture of Speed & Agility and a Brilliant Employee Experience.

The HRD will build robust people plan to drive engagement and performance, including action orientated talent assessments, succession planning to future-proof the business, and lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda driving the business strategy through creating possibilities that results in high performing agile culture, game changing growth opportunities, and efficiencies for sustainable growth. In doing so, the role holder will drive the end-to-end change, pulling the levers of capability, ways of working, structure, culture, behaviours, leadership and talent to deliver the outcomes for the business. The HRD will also drive the diversity agenda by creating an environment is progressive and genuinely inclusive for all enabling business performance and create a strategy for the attraction, hiring and retention of diverse talent.

Key Accountabilities

• Partner with the market leadership team to build and deliver an ambitious and Disruptive Approach to Talent through talent plans which include robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent, leveraging our employer brand proposition and creating exciting accelerated career path for people which strengthens our talent bench.
• Creates an inclusive culture where each employee feel valued for their uniqueness and are able to maximize their impact. The HRD will lead on Inclusion and Diversity strategy to deliver our ambitious Society 2030 goals and ensure this is integrated through all HR levers (talent, reward, capability, engagement etc), while partnering with ERG groups in the market.
• Drive performance enablement by coaching the General Manager and leadership team members to create an agile, stretching, fast-pace and focused performance culture and highly engaged organisation.
• Act as a custodian of Diageo Values and Reputation. This is about ensuring compliance and ethics standards are embedded and championed in the business. 
• Drive effectiveness across the HR organisation to ensure we maximize the skills and capability and create capacity in organisation by  brilliant basics and optimizing the partnership between in market HR business partners, COEs (like reward, talent engagement) and the shared service center.

Desired Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years in HR roles, including business partnering in a multinational company.
• Degree qualified, preferably in HR or Business
• Experience with leadership coaching and performance management of Directors is important.
• Strong experience in talent management and capability development across a large scale organisation.
• Experience in defining and leading employee engagement agenda within a cross functional context.
• Affinity and experience with leading progressive I&D agenda. 
• Real change agent experienced in driving and executing transformation in partnership with leaders, delivering enhanced business performance outcomes.
• Highly commercial.  Strong understanding of a P&L, specifically direct and indirect overhead management. Able to engage in business development discussions with significant credibility.
• Entrepreneurial (courageous and capable of managing ambiguity) – has an innate curiosity to understand what drives the business, adds value through bringing an external perspective.
• There is a high level of requirement on Japanese language proficiency.

What are the benefits?

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this.  At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision. You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements, and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise 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.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Tokyo

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-11-20