Area Manager

Job: Area Manager - Guinness Beer (Diageo)

Location: Marshalls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 22nd October 2024

Join our Supply Team

As the home of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year across 180 markets globally. Because of this huge undertaking, we rely on highly sophisticated systems as well as the very best talent to make sure our businesses continue to run efficiently.

This role is site based at Diageo's east Belfast packaging facility is a 12-acre site running a 24/7 operation and is supplied with beer from StJames Gate brought to the site in bulk tankers, which each hold up to 30,000 litres of beer. It has been operating for over 30 years, formerly as Irish Bonding and employs 150 direct staff. The site produces over 20 brands, including Guinness Draught, Extra Stout and Foreign Extra Stout, Harp, Hop House 13, Smithwick's and Rockshore.

About this role

We are seeking a dynamic Area Manager to drive Tier 2 and Tier 3 operations, ensuring excellence across safety, quality, service, and cost.

As the Area Manager, you will champion good governance to meet health, safety, and environmental standards, drive conformance with regulatory and accreditation requirements (such as ISO and HACCP), and ensure compliance with CARM controls.

Your mission is to lead the World Class Manufacturing Programme, partnering with the Manex Manager to set and achieve departmental goals that exceed our balanced scorecard targets.

You will provide strategic leadership, coaching, and support to your team, encouraging a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Your role will involve effective problem-solving, setting objectives, and managing change processes.

Building positive relationships with the Site Engineering Manager and Manex Manager will be crucial, as will ensuring your team's skills and proficiencies are aligned with our long-term planning goals.

You will actively ensure that standards are upheld and performance issues are promptly addressed.

If you are a proactive leader with a passion for driving operational excellence, we want you to be part of our team!

About you

The ideal candidate will be a results-driven leader with a degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering or science-related discipline and/or relevant experience.

NEBOSH qualification is a must, highlighting your dedication to health and safety excellence.

Demonstratable leadership experience in a FMCG production or manufacturing environment. It would be advantageous if you have a deep understanding of packaging, brewing, processing, and plant technologies.

You'll be a champion of manufacturing excellence, with a proven ability to implement leadership tools and techniques that drive performance. Your financial acumen is solid, and you possess strong engagement and communication skills, enabling you to build a high-performance environment in large, multi-disciplined teams.

Your ability to articulate and engage employees in the vision of the site and organisation is a key strength for this role. You'll consistently demonstrate role model behaviour and coach others to exceed minimum requirements.

Working with Us

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including annual bonus, product allowance, 6 months paid family leave, private medical insurance, share options, contributory pension scheme.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings.

About Us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing's changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy. And it's why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world's very best people.

We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, groundbreaking brands to the next level.

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