Business Strategy & Transformation Partner

Diageo; Darien (CT); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Stamford

Job summary

Diageo seeks a Business Strategy & Transformation Partner to lead the NAM transformation agenda, aligning business objectives with GBS capabilities. You will translate strategy into roadmaps, partner with domain leads, and ensure programs progress to planned outcomes.

Responsibilities include driving analytics for decision making, delivering executive dashboards, and shaping end-to-end design across process, technology, and governance.

Qualifications

• BPMS, Systems thinking, and L6S certification required.
• Experience planning, design and execution of large transformation programs in CPG are preferred.
• Change management and program execution experience is essential.
• Strong communication skills, able to engage with NAM executives.

Responsibilities

• Use data and analytics to drive transformation decisions and measure value realization.
• Provide actionable insights to senior leadership via executive dashboards and KPI scorecards.
• Identify industry and tech trends and assess their impact for GBS involvement in transformation.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across processes.

Skills

BPMS

Systems thinking

L6S Certification

Transformation programs

Change management

Communication skills

3+ years experience

Tools

MS Office

Power BI

AI models exposure

Job description

Business Strategy & Transformation Partner

Partner with business domain leaders within Diageo North America (NAM) to understand strategic objectives, opportunities, competitive positioning, and cost/growth targets.

Report/manage overall Transformation agenda for NAM ensuring initiatives are connected across functions, there is clarity on KPI and Business outcomes being impacted and programs are progressing to planned timeline and outcomes.

Evaluate and effect Diageo's GBS (Global Business Services) participation in the NAM transformation agenda.

Facilitate structured discovery sessions that ensure NAM and GBS requirements are fully elaborated, captured and considered throughout the solutions development lifecycle.

Translate the business strategy and requirements into clear value propositions and initiative roadmaps.

Global Business Services Solution Identification & Execution

Design end-to-end GBS process, policy and organization architectures that incorporate standardized, scalable constructs that enable repeatability and margin optimization.

With the support of domain specialists, including process, technology data and commercial, lead the overall solution architecture, ensuring alignment between business architecture, technology architecture, and operational capabilities, including;

• Solution / service scope definition
• Client experience blueprints
• Process and controls design
• Technology architecture and design
• Operating model and governance structure
• Service lifecycle model (including onboarding, offboarding and in-flight change)
• SLA/OLA frameworks

Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, controls and risk frameworks where applicable (e.g. SOC1)

Delivery model (global/local/hybrid)

Business Case

Support business case development including cost structures and investment requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities

Use data and analytics to drive transformation decisions, measure value realization, and provide actionable insights to senior leadership through executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and business performance reporting.

Recognize and understand emerging industry and technology trends to identify their potential impact and opportunity for GBS to play a role in transformation.

Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across processes.

Skills and Experiences expected:

• BPMS (Business process management systems), Systems thinking, L6S certification.
• Planning, design and execution of large transformation programs especially in Supply and Commercial areas of CPG businesses.
• Change management and program execution.
• Strong communication skills.. good enough to engage with NAM Exec/SL's.
• Tools - MS Office, power BI, exposure to AI models?
• Minimum of 3 years of experience
• Location - 3WTC/Stamford (hybrid model of 3 days in office and 2 remote)