Talent Acquisition Partner

Location: Budapest

Contract terms: Permanent

Grade: L5B

About us

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. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life. 

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of recruitment activity for their designated international market. The role partners closely with hiring managers and our Employer Brand team to attract, assess, and hire diverse, high-quality talent aligned to Diageo’s Growth Ambition.

The role of being a strategic talent partner brings Diageo’s employer brand and employee value proposition to life through excellent candidate and stakeholder experiences, ensuring consistent, high-quality recruitment outcomes while operating at pace in a complex, global environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to partner with international markets, talent and colleagues and to develop a career trajectory aligned with future international ambitions.

Key Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment delivery across assigned roles, from requisition intake through to offer management and acceptance
• Expert in effective and proactive candidate sourcing strategy, identifying multiple channels to source high quality, diverse talent whilst enabling a strong candidate experience from end to end
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing market insight, hiring recommendations, and challenge where required
• Deliver diverse and inclusive shortlists in line with Diageo’s Inclusion & Diversity commitments
• Partner with Talent Sourcing Specialists (where applicable) to develop proactive sourcing strategies for critical and hard-to-fill roles
• Ensure a positive, engaging, and consistent candidate experience at every stage of the recruitment lifecycle
• Manage recruitment activity in line with agreed service levels, hiring plans, and workforce priorities
• Use recruiting data and insights to track performance, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement
• Ensure full compliance with local employment legislation, data privacy, and internal governance
• Actively contribute to team capability through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and continuous improvement initiatives

What you will bring

Essential:

• Proven experience delivering in-house recruitment in a fast-paced, complex environment.  
• Strong experience in delivering recruiting from a centralised hub into another, international location
• Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple requisitions and priorities simultaneously
• Experience championing inclusive hiring practices
• Confidence using an advanced Recruiting technology stack, including AI and automated technology systems and associated processes
• Proven talent assessment and judgement through robust screening and interviewing processes
• Strong candidate communication and experience management capabilities

Desirable:

• Experience supporting global or regional hiring portfolios
• Exposure to hiring across multiple functions or job families
• Additional language capability

Benefits of working here

• Unique Family Leave opportunity
• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world
• You will deal with world class brand portfolio
• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities
• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop
• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym
• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

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.

Recruitment Scam Warning

Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.