Global Process Lead - Recruitment and Onboarding

Job Title: Global Process Lead - Recruitment and Onboarding

Location: London/Edinburgh/Glasgow/Bangalore

Contract terms: Secondment (1 year contract)

Level: 4B

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value

Process Excellence is an exciting new team crafted within the Employee Experience area. This team will own end-to-end People Processes, provide leading design expertise enabling delivery of world-class global standard, optimised experiences for our employees, and will provide both strategic and operational Partnership and Leadership to our HR COE teams, enabling the HR model of the future.

Top Accountabilities

• Lead with deep expertise in recruitment process design, HR strategy, and cutting-edge technology trends.

• Partner with stakeholders to turn complex business needs into streamlined, tech-enabled HR solutions.

• Drive performance and innovation using platforms like Workday, ServiceNow, and other cloud-based HR systems.

• Champion a connected, process-driven mindset that breaks down functional silos and delivers results.

• Guide cross-functional teams with clear communication, agile execution, and a business-first focus.

What you will bring

• A proven track record in recruitment process design, HR system implementation and transformation initiatives with measurable success.

• Strong understanding of HR technology architecture, risk management, and engineering principles.

• Experience of designing recruitment experiences in Workday.

• Experience with methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, Design Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, and more.

• You’re curious, driven, inspirational—and always looking for smarter, cost-effective ways to deliver value.

Why Join Us?

• Work in an agile, collaborative environment with global impact

• Be a key voice in shaping future-ready HR strategies

• Access continuous learning and top-tier technology tools

• Competitive benefits, flexible work, and a culture that values innovation

Apply today and help us reimagine the employee experience through technology and process excellence

Flexibility

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

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

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.