Job Title:   HRBP and Capability Lead

Organization: Diageo (Uganda Breweries)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Job Summary:   At Diageo, we’re the home of iconic alcohol brands, and the hugely talented people who make them what they are. These brands were created centuries ago by entrepreneurs, visionaries and philanthropists and, today, we’re proud to be the torchbearers of continuing innovation.

In, HR, we strive to be an agile, connected and accountable partner to the business, providing a platform for high performance and growth. Creating a working environment that allows our pioneering, global organization to achieve the mission of celebrating life every day, everywhere, means that our people can thrive in a culture that includes, inspires and supports.

HR is at the heart of our global business and we have departments across many of our offices around the world, with HR service centers in Budapest, Nairobi and Manila. Collectively these teams provide the widest variety of expertise to the business: from strategic delivery and skills development to talent engagement and careers development, process and systems management to organizational effectiveness and reward management.

As one of our HR professionals, you’ll see there are open doors for you everywhere here. With opportunities to shape the career you want, through continuing learning and development, and the support of inspiring peers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Capability Strategy

• Performance & Workforce planning: Analyze workforce data and training metrics to measure the impact of learning initiatives, provide insights on employee performance trends to guide business decisions and HR interventions, optimize capability budgets, ensuring cost-effective training solutions without compromising quality.
• Talent & Leadership Development: Design and implement high-potential employee development programs to build future leadership pipelines, Lead coaching, mentoring, and succession planning initiatives to strengthen leadership capability at all levels, Support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the workforce.
• Create and implement a capability strategy, aligned with business needs and regulatory requirements, conduct training needs assessments to identify skill gaps across the business, Design and manage training roadmaps, ensuring employees are equipped with technical, leadership competencies, drive digital learning solutions, including Learning Management Systems (LMS), e-learning, and blended learning approaches.
• Training & Capability Development: Be responsible for technical and compliance training, including, partnering with department heads to implement Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and career progression frameworks, Track training effectiveness and employee growth through key performance indicators (KPIs) and feedback mechanisms.
• Compliance & Safety Training: Ensure all employees undergo mandatory compliance training, Maintain accurate records of training completion and certification renewals.
• Talent & Leadership Development: Design and implement high-potential employee development programs to build future leadership pipelines, Lead coaching, mentoring, and succession planning initiatives to strengthen leadership capability at all levels, Support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the workforce.

HR Business Partnering 

• Drive both people and business strategy while supporting their performance and growth.
• Support line managers to implement effective performance management processes, ensure that mid-year and annual appraisals are carried out in a timely manner and follow up actions are implemented as planned.
• Coordinate the talent and succession management process to ensure availability of talent to meet current and future business needs
• Work closely with senior and line managers, providing them with expert guidance and support on the full range of HR activities (including policies and procedures, terms and conditions of employment, absence management, restructuring of services, performance management, etc.), in order to ensure a consistent and fair approach to people
• Engage, enable and challenge line managers to manage their people effectively.
• Develop and support line managers to create and implement activities to enhance employee engagement and create a positive work environment and build an engaged workforce
• Implement organizational change and development within the business and control of HR budget in area of responsibility.
• Recommend and implement HR policies & HR plan – recruitment and selection, disciplinary action, separation, and staff development, training and retention.
• Create and implement solutions to meet business needs

• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA or Post Graduate Diploma in specific HR (Added advantage)
• Any professional Human Resource Certification (Added advantage)

Experience 

• Min 5 years in a progressive HR environment, with solid understanding of IR ·
• Development and delivery of training packages.
• Track record of Human Resource Business Partnering
• Implementing People Performance Management process in an organization

Core Skills 

• Coaching (HPC) ·
• Written and verbal communication
• Interpersonal and Influencing skills ·
• Negotiation skills · Sound understanding of professional development sand awareness of people management · Labor laws/ Employment legislation ·
• Able to translate complex principles into simple working plans ·
• Strong Presentation skill