Description

Project Manager

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.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Our D&T team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

Experience / skills required

Essential Qualifications:

• Strong executive presence and ability to inspire and align cross-functional and cross-market teams
• Demonstrated success in leading complex digital and ERP transformations within multinational environments
• Excellent interpersonal and storytelling skills to drive engagement at all levels of the organization
• Executive maturity to manage upwards, sideways, and across technical and commercial leadership
• Proven track record of shaping outcomes through influence rather than authority

Essential Technical Skill Set:

• End-to-end leadership of SAP S/4HANA programs, ideally greenfield or global template deployments
• Deep understanding of core enterprise processes (finance, supply chain, manufacturing) within FMCG operations
• Hands-on experience in data migration, cutover planning, testing cycles, and hyper-care management
• Knowledge of agile delivery methodologies, integration architecture, and change management practices
• Professional certifications (e.g., Prince2, PMP, PMI) are highly desirable

Leadership Success Profile:

• Builds high-trust relationships with business and IT stakeholders
• Leads through ambiguity with resilience, structure, and confidence
• Develops internal talent and cultivates a performance culture during the transformation journey
• Delivers outcomes while maintaining strong governance and alignment with Diageo's values and ways of working

Work Flexibility:

Hybrid working model, with expected in-office presence during critical project moments (e.g., workshops, stakeholder sessions, cutover)

Key Criteria for the Role:

• Minimum 8-10 years of total experience, with 5+ years in enterprise transformation or SAP program leadership
• Background in multinational corporations, ideally in the FMCG sector
• Track record of working with global stakeholder groups and local business teams
• Ability to lead and inspire a 50-60 person hybrid team, across business and technology domains
• Demonstrated learning agility and ambition to grow into broader technology leadership roles

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, mindsets, 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. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.