Edrington is headquartered in Scotland and employs over 3,500 people in its wholly owned and joint venture companies, with over 70% employed overseas. We own our route to market in 15 countries and distribute our brands to more than 100 countries around the world through joint ventures and third-party agreements.
Edrington’s vision is that we will give more by building the world’s leading portfolio of exceptional super premium spirits.
Edrington’s aim is to cultivate an environment that celebrates diversity and inclusion and enables all employees to make meaningful contributions. We have made good progress and want to continue to further broaden our diversity and inclusion agenda, committing to clear actions to ensure our workforce is a true representation of our society and consumers across the globe.
The Diversity and Inclusion Manager will be crucial in driving key initiatives in collaboration with the business and HR across the globe, with responsibility for clearly articulating and implementing Edrington’s D&I strategy.
Reporting to the Global HR Director, this newly created role requires both a tactical and strategic approach to prioritise initiatives, shape our talent strategies in light of D&I, and engage and inspire employees and employee forums into action.
Key responsibilities:
- Devise a detailed action and delivery plan against agreed D&I objectives globally
- Influence and inspire leaders and employees to action across the business by clearly communicating our strategy, its benefits, and their accountability
- Collaborate with the Talent and Learning function to drive delivery of relevant training programmes and build resources within the Edrington Academy
- Ensure best practice processes with regards to D&I are in place for all talent and engagement processes
- Collaborate with the Reward function on gender pay gap, ethnicity reporting and action planning
- Collaborate closely with HR Business Partners to analyse gaps and influence better decisions related to people practices through compelling analysis, data and recommendations
- Advise our employee-led volunteer groups on best practice and support their journey from discussion to action forums
- Collaborate with the Scotch Whisky Association working group and external partners on D&I, keeping up to date with best practice
To be considered for this role you will have a proven track record in successfully leading the D&I agenda in a business and deep subject matter knowledge of D&I issues, trends and best practices. You have strong project management, prioritisation, analysis and reporting skills, with the ability to deliver high quality programmes. Highly collaborative and inclusive in style with a passion for D&I, you will have the drive to challenge assumptions and status-quo in a constructive manner and manage change in a pragmatic way.
Closing date for applications – Friday 22nd January 2021