Head of HR Commercial Iberia (Temporary)

Diageo; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading multinational beverage company is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner in Madrid to drive talent strategy and support organisational growth. This role focuses on talent sustainability, inclusion, and operational excellence within a dynamic environment. Candidates should have previous HRBP experience, preferably in FMCG, and a strong ability to influence at all organizational levels. A competitive benefits package is offered, including modern work-life policies and health insurance.

Servicios

Health insurance

Gympass

Employee Assistance Programme

Incentive plan

Formación

• Experience in FMCG or multinational environments.
• Ability to build genuine relationships based on trust.
• Demonstrable success in driving cultural transformation.

Responsabilidades

• Partner with leadership to deliver ambitious talent plans.
• Drive inclusion and diversity agenda.
• Lead organisation design and effectiveness agenda.

Conocimientos

HRBP experience

Influencing skills

Coaching

Change management

Data analysis

Educación

Degree in HR or equivalent experience

Descripción del empleo

About us

At Diageo, there are three core assets that drive growth across our business : our brands, people and Culture. HR Business Partners play a key role ensuring we have the right conditions in place to develop and unleash the potential of our talent, leaders and their teams. It is to challenge and support in equal measure; to help strategically shape the future organisation to deliver the biggest possible performance outcomes.

At Diageo, we are the modern-day custodians of some of the best, most loved brands in the world. Brands with hundreds of years of history, brands of exceptional quality, and brands that will be the giants of the future.

About the role

• Fixed-term (temporary replacement) for at least 6 months

The size of the team sitting within the remit of this role is approximately 200 employees spread across Spain and Portugal.

The role partners with stakeholders within the Commercial teams in Iberia, recognising that each area requires very specialised talent and capabilities. Attention to varied talent attraction, retention and development strategies is necessary. The incumbent must be able to navigate the matrix organisation, build strong relationships and be able to influence across all levels of the business. The role works closely with Centres of Expertise to deliver the People Strategy effectively as well as Commercial leaders to drive the talent agenda.

Role Responsibilities

This role sits at the heart of driving business growth by bringing to life the four distinctive areas of our People Strategy : Advantaged Capabilities, Talent Sustainability, Thriving Organisation and Operational Excellence.

Top responsibilities

• Partner with the Commercial leadership team to build and deliver ambitious and pioneering talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career paths for people which accelerates their development.
• Build impactful and high performing teams, coaching line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused agile culture to enable outstanding performance.
• Drive the inclusion and diversity agenda tailored to each area across all HR levers (talent, reward, culture, learning, etc) that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feels valued for their uniqueness and are able to enhance their impact.
• Instil a continuous learning culture throughout the organisation ensuring employees have access to stretching experiences and extraordinary learning content that fuels constant growth in their capabilities and our business performance.
• Be responsible for the Organisation Design and Effectiveness agenda across the different commercial teams in Iberia – grounded in the market strategy and by using data and analytics creating possibilities that results in successful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies and injects the right reinvestments. The role provides change leadership across the organisation by pulling the levers of across capability, process, ways of working, culture and leadership to deliver the outcomes for the business.
• Ongoing operational excellence and collaboration with the Global HR teams to drive effectiveness across the people processes and agenda, ensuring brilliant basics and optimizing the partnership with Centers of Excellence (like reward, talent engagement, talent) and the shared service center.
• Act as a custodian of Diageo Values and Reputation, guaranteeing our culture of integrity through compliance and ethics standards embedded and championed in the business.

About you

HRBP experience, preferably in FMCG companies or within fast-paced, dynamic multinational companies or multicultural environments, being advantageous the experience working across countries / geographies / cultures.

Proven ability to influence and build credibility with all levels of partners, building genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect, and being able to excel when dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a matrixed environment.

Demonstrable ability in coaching and performance management of Leaders and stakeholders, influencing, supporting, and challenging for positive outcomes.

Demonstrable success in driving cultural transformation. Change and project management skills (including influencing change)

Proven experience in managing the talent agenda and excellent talent judgement – ability to assess talent gaps, and suggest actions needed to strengthen the talent bench.

Curiosity and understanding of what drives the business, having managed organisational design principles to drive growth / progression for commercial teams while

Ability to understand and drive insights from HR data, analysing to measure impacts, assess plans, diagnose trends and link to business performance outcomes.

Deep personal accountability for great performance

Degree qualified or equivalent experience, preferably in HR

Spanish valued

Working with us

Flexible Working Statement : Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement : We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package such as :

Modern work life balance policies and wellbeing activities.

Employee Assistance Programme.

Gympass.

Incentive plan that rewards you for delivering phenomenal performance.

Our product discounts.

Health insurance.

Life and accident insurance coverage.

Industry leading functional and leadership capability trainings.

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, 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!

Job details:
Worker Type : Regular
Location : Madrid

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Job Posting Start Date :

2025-09-23