Head of HR MENA

* Own end-to-end talent strategy for the region, including succession planning, leadership development, and critical capability building
* Build strong local talent pipelines while enabling cross-market and cross-functional mobility to develop diverse, future-ready leaders with multi-market experience
* Partner with Global Talent and Learning CoEs to deploy enterprise programmes with regional relevance
* Champion Diageo’s purpose, values, and performance culture across a highly diverse region
* Drive inclusion and diversity strategies that respect cultural and religious contexts while reinforcing Diageo’s global I&D commitments
* Foster high engagement, trust, and belonging across all markets, including complex and remote operating environments
* Collaborate effectively with HR Centres of Excellence (HR Operations, Talent, Reward, Learning) to deliver consistent, high-quality people solutions and for positive colleague experience
* Act as the voice of the MENA region in global HR forums, ensuring regional insights inform enterprise-wide policy, talent, and organizational decisions
* Senior HR leader with significant experience operating in multinational, matrixed organisations, ideally within emerging or highly regulated markets
* Demonstrated expertise in employment legislation, labour relations, compliance, and risk management across multiple jurisdictions
* Strong strategic capability, with the ability to connect people initiatives to commercial outcomes and business performance
* Proven change leader with experience navigating complexity, ambiguity, and transformation at scale
* Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, with the credibility to partner effectively with senior executives
* Highly self-driven, resilient, and solutions-oriented, operating with integrity, discretion, and sound judgement

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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