Sustainability Data & Digitisation Lead

Job Description : Job Title: Sustainability Data & Digitisation Lead Location: Dublin, Edinburgh, Menstrie, London Contract: Permanent Closing Date: 29th September 2026

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world’s most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life’s moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations. Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other. Join us and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.

About the Function

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It’s fast-paced and hands‑on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

About the Team

The Sustainability Data and Digitisation Lead sits in the Global Sustainability Data Assurance & Auditing Team. Our vision is to enable the delivery of our Sustainability goals by driving process excellence and digital transformation, optimizing systems, data and reporting, ensuring adherence to internal controls, best practices, & statutory requirements, as well as adapting to evolving external & partner requirements.

About the Role

Diageo's Supply Chain & Procurement function is undergoing an exciting digital transformation, bringing new capabilities, tools, processes and ways of working. At the heart of this transformation is data - enabling us to drive better decision‑making, strengthen governance and deliver our ambitious Spirit of Progress goals. As part of the Sustainability Data Assurance & Auditing Team, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering our sustainability digitisation roadmap. As we collect increasing volumes of sustainability data across Diageo and our network of more than 30,000 suppliers, you'll help ensure we have the digital products, systems and processes needed to meet evolving ESG reporting requirements, including regulations such as CSRD and UK SRS. Your work will support accurate, auditable data, robust controls and meaningful insights that enable informed business decisions. The primary purpose of this role is to manage and enhance our sustainability systems, strengthen our digital capabilities and simplify ways of working through improved data and digitisation outcomes. You'll provide business leadership across strategic sustainability digital transformation programmes, ensuring initiatives are successfully delivered and continue to support Diageo's sustainability ambitions.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the business coordination and continuous improvement of Microsoft Sustainability Manager, ensuring reporting requirements, data quality, process standardisation and stakeholder alignment are delivered, while driving enhancements to improve analytics, reporting automation and business insights.
• Partner with Sustainability subject matter experts, reporting teams, Digital and Transformation teams, and external vendors to deliver readiness for CSRD and other evolving ESG reporting requirements.
• Own the business requirements and implementation of new sustainability indicators across key systems, including Microsoft Sustainability Manager and Enablon, while developing advanced dashboards, reporting and predictive analytics to enable data‑driven decision‑making.
• Lead the design and implementation of automated data quality checks, strengthening the accuracy, auditability and control of sustainability metrics.
• Develop and maintain global standards for sustainability reporting, including clear verification and reconciliation processes, while supporting future systems integration and simplification.
• Own and maintain the Sustainability Digital Strategy roadmap, ensuring initiatives are prioritised in line with business value, regulatory commitments and strategic objectives.

Experience / skills required:

• A degree in Business, Sustainability, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
• Experience working within sustainability, with an understanding of digital sustainability strategies and transformation.
• Experience working across cross‑functional programmes and teams within a global environment.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and bring stakeholders on board with change.
• Highly analytical, with strong attention to detail and the ability to develop and implement robust processes and controls.
• Experience collaborating with remote teams across different cultures and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience using sustainability systems, such as Microsoft Sustainability Manager, Enablon, Sitka or Altruistiq.

Flexibility

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.

Diversity and inclusion

Our purpose is crafting iconic drinks chosen for life’s moments. And it’s our people, with their different experiences, perspectives and talents, who make that possible. We value diversity in its broadest sense and want everyone to feel they can belong, contribute and strive for their personal best. You’ll work alongside people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives — challenging, supporting and learning from one another as one outstanding team. Together, we’re constantly learning and improving, combining the strength of our people, capabilities and iconic brands to raise the bar, grow and win. Wherever you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute, make an impact and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much‑loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.