Transformation Enablement Lead at Diageo

About The Role

Reporting to the Transformation Delivery Director, the Transformation Enablement Lead will play a pivotal role in connecting and enabling our major transformation initiatives across Supply Chain & Procurement.

This is a senior, individual contributor role with high visibility to executive leaders. You will:

• Create and own the transformation narrative and roadmap across multiple programmes, helping leaders and teams understand where we’re heading and why it matters.
• Lead change enablement and adoption, building leadership capability and preparing markets and functions to successfully land change at pace.
• Design and run transformation governance, ensuring progress, risks, decisions and trade-offs are visible and well-managed.
• Identify and manage interdependencies across initiatives, surfacing potential conflicts early and supporting better sequencing of change.
• Act as the single point of contact into the enterprise transformation office, aligning function-level work with company-wide priorities.
• You will deliver through influence rather than direct line control — working with senior stakeholders, programme leaders and virtual teams to drive alignment and follow-through.

Key Responsibilities

• Transformation Enablement & Change Leadership
• Lead the design and delivery of the transformation enablement strategy.
• Build and embed a consistent transformation narrative and “from–to” story.
• Equip leaders and teams to act as effective change champions.
• Oversee strategic communications and messaging that drives clarity, engagement, and momentum.
• Governance, Portfolio & Interdependencies
• Design and run portfolio governance routines that provide insight into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Maintain a holistic view of transformation performance, working closely with finance and programme teams.
• Identify and manage interdependencies and cumulative change impacts across initiatives.
• Integrate roadmaps so that change is sequenced and sustainable for teams on the ground.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Enterprise Interface
• Act as the primary interface between Supply Chain & the central transformation office.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, influencing without authority.
• Simplify complex transformation content into clear, compelling messages for diverse audiences.

About You

• You are an experienced transformation and change leader who thrives in complex, global environments and is comfortable operating at portfolio level.

You Bring

• Significant experience leading large-scale transformation in FMCG / CPG, supply chain, operations or digital environments.
• A strong track record in change leadership, including narrative building, adoption planning and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Experience operating in or alongside a Transformation Office / PMO / portfolio governance environment.
• Proven ability to manage interdependencies and prioritisation across multiple programmes.

Capabilities & Skills

• Transformation leadership: Able to shape direction, work through ambiguity and turn vision into action.
• Change & engagement: Deep understanding of how to land change at scale and build leadership ownership.
• Governance & portfolio management: Disciplined in tracking performance, benefits and risk.
• Stakeholder influence: Confident with senior stakeholders; able to challenge constructively and hold others to account.
• Strategic communication: Clear storyteller — able to simplify complexity and build conviction.
• Execution & resilience: Highly organised, delivery-focused and resilient in a fast-moving, demanding context.