Head of HR, Italy

Overview

Based in Milan, Italy, the Head of HR for the Italy market reports to the Managing Director and is responsible for the overall people agenda, leveraging and maximising the impact of the total End-2-End operating model. The HR head sits as a member of the executive leadership team. The purpose of the Head of HR role is to partner effectively with businesses and functions within the market to implement and embed the Global Diageo and Italy HR Strategy such that the people and talent agendas guarantee and amplify organisational performance. They will also strongly collaborate with all areas of the business including sales, marketing, corporate relations and finance. The role has significant people leadership responsibility; therefore they will need to lead, inspire and develop a high performing HR team professionals with HRBPs and COE roles and role model as a business leader into the organization.

Key Objectives And Specific Accountabilities

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver bold and innovative talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, building a strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career path for people which accelerates their development.
• Lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda across the organisation - grounded in the functional strategy and by using data and analytics, creating possibilities that results in successful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies, and injects the right reinvestments. Deliver against overheads Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and deliver our key Organizational Effectiveness metrics while delivering improved financial performance.
• Drive inclusion, diversity and equity agenda that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feels valued for their uniqueness and can improve their impact through fulfilling employee experiences.
• Install a continuous learning culture throughout the organisation ensuring employees have access to stretching experiences and great learning content that fuels constant growth in their capabilities and our business performance.
• Build impactful teams, coaching exec and extended leadership leaders and line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance culture to enables outstanding performance.
• Enable the culture transformation within the functions including the continued embedding of the Dial Up Behaviours, supporting and challenging leaders to adopt agility and speed, and driving accountability for bold and confident decision making.

Candidate Profile

• Business insight, capable of participating in business development decisions with significant credibility
• Entrepreneurial flare; courageous and capable of navigating ambiguity
• Results driven and thorough in approach
• Resourceful and critical thinking.
• Results driven, proactive, executional.
• Great leadership and influencing/ coaching skills, including senior stakeholders and able to create a one team mindset and culture across countries and teams.
• Demonstrable experience as HR professional. Experience in the different HR areas as talent, reward & HRBP, ER is preferable.
• People-orientated and strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach
• Analytical and strong problem-solving skills with a positive attitude and empathetic in approach

Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location

Turin

Additional Locations

Job Posting Start Date

2025-09-26

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Human Resources
• Industries
• Wine & Spirits