Sustainability Data & Digitisation Lead

Job Description :

Job Title:

Sustainability Data & Digitisation Lead

Location:

Dublin, Edinburgh, Menstrie, London

Contract:

Permanent Closing Date: 29th September 2026

About UsWith over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world’s most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life’s moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.

Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.

Join us and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.

About the Function Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage.

From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love. About the Team The Sustainability Data and Digitisation Lead sits in the Global Sustainability Data Assurance & Auditing Team. Our vision is to enable the delivery of our Sustainability goals by driving process excellence and digital transformation, optimizing systems, data and reporting, ensuring adherence to internal controls, best practices, & statutory requirements, as well as adapting to evolving external & partner requirements.

About the Role Diageo's Supply Chain & Procurement function is undergoing an exciting digital transformation, bringing new capabilities, tools, processes and ways of working. At the heart of this transformation is data - enabling us to drive better decision-making, strengthen governance and deliver our ambitious Spirit of Progress goals.

As part of the Sustainability Data Assurance & Auditing Team, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering our sustainability digitisation roadmap. As we collect increasing volumes of sustainability data across Diageo and our network of more than 30,000 suppliers, you'll help ensure we have the digital products, systems and processes needed to meet evolving ESG reporting requirements, including regulations such as CSRD and UK SRS.

Your work will support accurate, auditable data, robust controls and meaningful insights that enable informed business decisions.

The primary purpose of this role is to manage and enhance our sustainability systems, strengthen our digital capabilities and simplify ways of working through improved data and digitisation outcomes. You'll provide business leadership across strategic sustainability digital transformation programmes, ensuring initiatives are successfully delivered and continue to support Diageo's sustainability ambitions.

What you'll be doing:

Lead the business coordination and continuous improvement of Microsoft Sustainability Manager, ensuring reporting requirements, data quality, process standardisation and stakeholder alignment are delivered, while driving enhancements to improve analytics, reporting automation and business insights.

Partner with Sustainability subject matter experts, reporting teams, Digital and Transformation teams, and external vendors to deliver readiness for CSRD and other evolving ESG reporting requirements.

Own the business requirements and implementation of new sustainability indicators across key systems, including Microsoft…