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 ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create 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.

Purpose of the Role

To lead the regulatory and product compliance function for Diageo's portfolio of brands. This role involves developing and executing regulatory strategies, identifying emerging legislation, ensuring compliance with international regulations (food, alcohol and packaging) and providing strategic leadership to support product innovation and market expansion.

 

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory Strategy Development:

Develop and implement comprehensive global regulatory strategies to support product development, registration, and market access.

Provide strategic guidance on regulatory matters to senior management and cross-functional teams.

Compliance Management:

Ensure all Diageo beverage products comply with relevant international regulations, standards, and guidelines

Monitor changes in global alcohol, food and packaging regulations and assess their impact on the company's products.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of regulatory requirements in key market through codified processes

Facilitate best practice, standardisation and codification of product compliance processes

Provide technical support to market regulatory teams

Deliver on robust data management to enable compliance, drive insights and report on performance against KPI’s

Leadership & Team Development:

Lead a team of regulatory professionals, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance management.

Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the regulatory team.

External Relations & Advocacy:

Liaise with regulatory authorities, industry associations, external consultants, and other stakeholders as needed.

Represent Diageo in industry forums and contribute to shaping industry standards.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Work closely with CR, R&D, Food Safety & Quality, Assurance, Marketing, Legal, Supply Chain Categories and other departments / functions to ensure regulatory requirements are met throughout the product lifecycle.

Provide regulatory input during product development stages to ensure compliance from inception to launch.

Digital Transformation:

Continue to explore opportunities for digital enhancements and transformation

Key Accountabilities:

Guide decisions & protect our brands. Strong leadership required to set context, create focus, provide external perspective to drive change. Create and deliver the Strategy for Regulatory.

Lead the development of a highly specialised team of SME’s to ensure that there is a sustainable Regulatory function with a reputation for outstanding execution and leadership

Ensure alignment with key business partners across Diageo markets and functions (ie Innovation, Legal, CR, Excise Tax, and Trade Compliance) to assess and agree possibilities and opportunities to enable Diageo to navigate, create and deliver new Innovation products capable of global scale.

Identify changes in regulations, assess risk and opportunities and advise business on impact and actions needed.

Scans for and mitigates Regulatory risks.

Build trust and respect for Diageo through representation at external forums such as trade associations or regulators. Leverage these relationships to drive and maintain our competitive advantage.

Capabilities, Skills & Experience Required

Extensive regulatory experience in commercial technical support function in the food or alcoholic beverage industry. 

Technical degree qualified (Food Science/Science)

Masters in Food Law would be preferable

Proven track record of managing a functional team of specialists in a regional, international or global environment. Self-starter with an ability to work independently and with remote teams.

Strong commercial acumen, Business Case development and influencing skills. Able to effectively communicate at all levels, both verbal and written, with internal stakeholders, external government agencies and 3rd Party vendors and customers.

Ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, proficient in beverage alcohol laws and procedures, documentation requirements, labelling laws, and have in depth understanding in manufacturing processes

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
 

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Contributary pension scheme

Comprehensive health benefits

Annual bonus

Share Incentive Plan
 

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.

We believe the most diverse and inclusive culture makes for a better business and a better world.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Around the world we have a number of inclusive Business and Employee Resource Groups known as BRGs and ERGs. These influential groups, made up of our people, represent various viewpoints, experiences and communities who generate thought-provoking work to enhance our business and workplace, creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for all. 

Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. 

Join us and you’ll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll build brands consumers love.

We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you’ll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.    

                       

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

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

International Supply Technical Centre – Menstrie

Additional Locations :

1HQ, Edinburgh Park, St James Gate

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-13