Digital Lead

Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

Promote awareness, understanding and acceptance of digital technology and change. Drive Digital Manufacturing initiatives and projects at a factory level, coordinate deployment of global initiatives as well as development of local solutions.

Role Responsibilities:

Function: Single Point of Contact for the factory for all Digital initiatives. Member/ owner of relevant Digital Technology COE.

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages:

• Experience in Manufacturing (preferably Production/ Engineering) 3-4 years
• Experience in managing/ participating in transformation projects
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, adjusting to different audiences and levels – shopfloor, local and regional leadership)
• Good influencing and stakeholder’s management skills
• Familiarity with systems such as SAP, or other ERP/MES platforms.
• Digital fluency in existing company systems (their purposes, interactions/ interfaces, data flow, etc)
• Ability to quickly grasp new situations, technologies, and trends.
• Data Analytics and Performance Monitoring: Collect, manage, and analyze data throughout the production cycle to supervise key performance indicators (critical metrics), such as yield, quality, and energy consumption.
• Use data to supervise and improve production efficiency, reduce waste, and forecast future production needs.
• “Digital curiosity” – demonstrated interest and awareness of existing and emerging digital technologies
• English and Spanish Advanced Skills

Education / Qualifications / Certifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Information Technology, Industrial Management, or a related field. A Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Digital Transformation or Manufacturing Technologies is a plus.

Beneficial:

• Strong factory and regional network (Tequila Industry)
• Experience in modern project management methodologies, e.g. Agile
• Aware of current IT/OT organisational and technical “boundaries”

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. Creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mentalities, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type: Regular

Primary Location: La Barca

Additional Locations:

Job Posting Start Date: 2025-03-11