Reward Manager - Global Supply Chain & Procurement

Diageo; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading premium drinks company is seeking a Reward Manager for its Global Supply Chain & Procurement team. This role involves managing the global reward strategy to attract and retain diverse talent, ensuring effective communication of reward policies, and analyzing compensation programs. The ideal candidate will have proven commercial and project management experience, excellent analytical skills, and work well in a matrix organization. Flexibility and inclusivity are key values in this dynamic workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a unionized environment and handling pay negotiations.
• Ability to work under pressure with diverse stakeholders.
• Understanding of job evaluation methodologies and market surveys.
• Experience supporting a global population in reward management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the global reward strategy for the Supply Chain & Procurement function.
• Provide expert advice on reward-related programs and policies.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure effective communication in reward processes.
• Analyze and develop compensation and benefits programs.
• Build relationships with various internal and external teams.

Skills

Commercial experience

Project management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Advanced Excel

Negotiation experience

Experience in matrix organizations

Fluency in Spanish

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Reward Manager – Global Supply Chain & Procurement

Location: London or Edinburgh

Type: Permanent - Full time

Reports to: Head of Reward - Global Supply

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!

About the Function

Our Human Resources (HR) team bring brilliant people together to help us continue building iconic brands. We harness the diverse talents of our people to help them excel. We champion an inclusive and collaborative culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.

Human Resources is at the heart of markets around the world, finding and developing talent that will unearth new ideas and inspire innovation. From creative problem solvers and entrepreneurs to scientists and engineers — whatever your experience and ideas, we’ll help you to harness your skills, empowering you to be the best you can be.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to support the business in delivering its global reward strategy to the Global Supply Chain & Procurement function. This strategy supports; attraction and retention of diverse talent, incentivising and rewarding high performance through a competitive and well communicated rewards package tailored to the local markets.

This role plays a key part of the delivery of this strategy through partnering internal and external providers and collaborators including Supply leadership, Talent Engagement, Finance, Legal and external consultants.

As member of the wider Global Reward & Performance Centre of Excellence the post holder will support the delivery of annual reward activity including annual salary reviews and benchmarking in addition to leading projects.

Partnering with Global Supply Chain & Procurement the job holder will be a key point of access to teams around the world providing expert advice on all reward related programmes and policies.

Market Complexity

This role will work on across geographies and teams in a complex matrix environment, requiring an ability to prioritise and communicate progress effectively. The ability to understand how to get things done in a matrix organisation is critical.

This role partners with the HR teams, comprising of employees in multiple countries in different continents with multiple senior stakeholders and legislative challenges.

This role needs to build effective relationships with various parties including Global Reward Operations, HR Service Delivery functions, Executive Reward, HR Business Partners, Employee Relations, Talent Engagement and HR Directors.

Leadership Responsibilities

Collaborates with others at all levels in a professional and effective way. Takes leading role on specific reward/ business projects and engages with partners to reach desired outcomes. Takes ownership of building and maintain relationship across Global Supply Chain & Procurement HR Business Partners.

Top Accountabilities

• Point of contact and subject matter expert for Global Supply Chain & Procurement HR Business Partners and Talent Engagement teams. Support delivery of projects related to Global Supply Chain & Procurement in conjunction with the Reward Managers across the world.
• Delivers expert support across several reward areas – including but not limited to market data acquisition and analysis, benchmarking, salary management, regulatory compliance, job evaluation, and total reward communications. Provide support in UK and Ireland union wage negotiations.
• Provides analytical insight to drive ongoing and new compensation and benefits programs and participates in the design and development of new programs, policies and principles. In doing so they will apply a commercial focus so that cost competitiveness is maintained.
• Ensures consistency of approach across the function with clear communication and supporting Annual Reward Cycle (ARC) sign off processes with market reward teams and operational delivery. Partners with HR Business Partners to ensure a great employee experience during end of year processes including bonus, performance, salary reviews and communication.
• Builds reward capability in HR Business Partners, FirstPoint (shared services), Talent Engagement, people managers and employees to enable the attraction, retention and motivation of our people.

Experience

• Proven commercial experience and the ability to prove that they understand the commercial agenda.
• Project management experience would be recommended.
• Can work well under pressure with a diverse set of stakeholders and to work autonomously.
• Experience of working within a unionised environment and pay negotiations would be ideal.
• Experience of working within a matrix organisation.
• Experience of job evaluations methodologies and principles. Understanding of read across with market surveys and job architectures.
• Great analytical skills required with an ability to work with complex data extracting meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to deliver impactful communications materials and achieve clarity and understanding of reward with varied audiences.
• Previous experience in Reward supporting a global population would be highly advantageous. Spanish language will be an asset.
• Advanced excel skills with an understanding of AI tools and how they can improve reward processes.

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.

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 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.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer 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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Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location

1HQ

Additional Locations

Edinburgh Park

Job Posting Start Date

2025-10-21