HR Head Greece

Job Description :

Head of HR Greece

Location: Athens, Greece
Type: Permanent

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 Human Resources (HR) team bring brilliant people together to help us continue building iconic brands. We harness the diverse talents of our people to help them excel. We champion an inclusive and collaborative culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.

HR is at the heart of markets around the world, finding and developing talent that will unearth new ideas and inspire innovation. From creative problem solvers and entrepreneurs to scientists and engineers — whatever your experience and ideas, we’ll help you to harness your talents, empowering you to be the best you can be.

About the role

Based in Athens, the Head of HR for Greece reports to the Managing Director and is responsible for the overall people agenda, leveraging and maximising the impact of the total End-2-End operating model. The HR Head is a member of the Leadership team.

 

The purpose of the HR head role is to partner effectively with businesses and functions within the market to implement and embed the Global Diageo and CEE HR Strategy such that the people and talent agendas guarantee and amplify organisational performance. They will also strongly collaborate with all areas of the business including Sales, marketing, corporate relations and finance.

The role has significant people leadership responsibility; therefore they will need to lead, inspire and develop a high performing HR team professionals with HRBP´s and COE roles and role model as a leader into the organization including closer partnership with HR GBO team.

Role Responsibilities

Key objectives and specific accountabilities include:

• Partner with the functional leadership teams to build and deliver ambitious and innovative talent plans which includes robust succession planning to future proof the business, resourcing for our biggest opportunities at pace, building a strong proactive pipeline of talent, and creating exciting, accelerated career path for people which accelerates their development.
• Lead the Organisation Effectiveness agenda across the organisation – grounded in the functional strategy and by using data and analytics, creating possibilities that results in successful and innovative performance, delivers cost efficiencies, and injects the right reinvestments. Deliver against overheads Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and deliver our key Organizational Effectiveness metrics while delivering improved financial performance.
• Drive inclusion, diversity and equity agenda that creates an inclusive culture where each employee feels valued for their uniqueness and can improve their impact through fulfilling employee experiences.
• Install a continuous learning culture throughout the organisation ensuring employees have access to stretching experiences and great learning content that fuels constant growth in their capabilities and our business performance.
• Build impactful teams, coaching exec and extended leadership leaders and line managers to create an agile, stretching and focused performance culture to enables outstanding performance.
• Enable the culture transformation within the functions including the continued embedding of the Dial Up Behaviours, supporting and challenging leaders to adopt agility and speed, and driving accountability for bold and confident decision making.
• Unlock performance and support to create high performing teams with distributors partners.

Experience / skills required

• Business acumen, able to engage in business development decisions with significant credibility.
• Entrepreneurial flare; courageous and capable of managing ambiguity.
• Results driven and thorough in approach.
• Resourceful and critical thinking.
• Results driven, proactive, executional.
• Great leadership and influencing/coaching skills, including senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience as an HR professional. Experience in different HR areas such as talent, reward & HRBP; ER is preferable.
• People-orientated and strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach.
• Analytical and strong problem-solving skills with a positive attitude and empathetic in approach.

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.

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.

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

We embrace 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 and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Athens

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-03-09