Sustainability Manager

What will your role be?

Sustainability is a key part of Diageo’s business strategy, and this role sits in market within the Australian business. The role is part of the Corporate Relations team and has responsibility for leading and co-ordinating the business’ ESG agenda. It works closely with the Supply, Marketing and Commercial functions as well as the executive leadership team and project manages several cross functional programs.

While the overall strategic direction of the Diageo’s ESG is set at a global level, there is a lot of autonomy within market. This role will work closely with the Corporate Relations Director and other senior leaders to determine Australia’s ESG strategy based on global targets. Decision making abilities are an important part of this role. Areas include:

• Strategy implementation
• Planning and organization
• Budget implementation
• Resolving ambiguity

The Head of Sustainability is responsible for:

• The delivery of alcohol moderation and education programs
• The impact of health trends and policy
• Alcohol advertising policy and relationship with ABAC
• The reconciliation action plan
• Stewardship of Diageo’s ESG agenda in Australia
• Managing ESG Committee, the quarterly meeting and ensuring we are on track to meet our targets
• Working closely with key functional leads to build Diageo’s Australia strategic sustainability agenda
• Lead and execute Diageo’s policy and programs on alcohol moderation and harmful drinking
• Lead policy approach to alcohol advertising codes and standards
• The Reconciliation Action Plan and oversighting the employee working group.

What will you bring to the table?

• A well established and successful career within Corporate Relations with exposure to Environmental, Social Governance and stakeholder reporting, communication and engagement
• Highly developed and well-rounded stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Strong project management experience
• Knowledge of best practice corporate social responsibility and sustainability strategies.

What are the benefits?

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this.  At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.

You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity:

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture. In order to ensure we’re supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 14th June 2024.

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