Diageo Reviews

Diageo is extremely performance-based, you don’t get the politics here that you do elsewhere when it comes to promotions and succession planning. If you are performing in your role and have made an interest in something else clear to your manager and HR, you will have every opportunity to get that job.

Diageo has explicitly set out goals called 'society 2030 initiatives', that cover everything from sustainability to inclusion and diversity. These are a real focus across all teams.

The line managers and other management personnel are very accessible and approachable. The entire team makes an effort to lend a hand when necessary as well as set aside time to provide training

When it comes to a few categories there is a great deal of work that has been done or is being done for diversity within the company. Simply looking around there is a large number of women in management or ethnically diverse employees. Something else I've also noticed is that the parents within the team are given a lot of support when it comes to being able to leave early to collect kids form school or working from home during school holidays. There is also 6mnths paternity leave available which is fantastic to see!

I essentially assist in activating our brands in marketing executions in venues. Day to day I am involved in working on projects to bring activity to fruition, I spend some time evaluating past activities, I work with the sales operations teams to ensure the field sales team are executing properly and I work with agencies to make sure our creative concepts and strategies are coming to life.

Extremely accessible, there are no teams that I know of in our office where you aren’t getting daily contact with your line manager. There is great access to senior management as well, I am totally comfortable walking into the marketing director’s office without an appointment if I need to speak to him about something.

The workspace is pretty large, there are two open-plan office spaces that feature amazing coffee machines and snacks. There isn't really a dress code, unless you're stepping onto site or into the dispatch area where you need safety equipment. Otherwise, people just wear what they're comfortable in

For the graduate program there were several stages. Initially there is the standard CV and personal essay. Then you move to a video recorded Q&A online. Finally, you have an assessment centre with other finalists where you were given mock scenarios and you had to work collaboratively to come up with solutions.

The pay package is very satisfying at Diageo, but in the graduate program you do commit to a capped salary progression for 3 years so by your 3rd year you do feel under compensated for the work you’re doing. That being said, the experience, training, and development you get through the program are unbelievably good, so I am happy with the trade-off.

In relation to training they start you with some shadowing and process mapping. In my opinion this is a really good way of getting you initially acquainted with a topic as it gets you asking questions of why. The goal of this activity is to present on how the process works and where you believe there is room for change. There is also a great deal of online training modules available to go through at you on pace, this allows you access to pretty much all the training available within the company so you can be across whatever you feel is relevant to where you are at

8-5:30pm. Quite flexible for your individual requirements

We do have recycling initiatives and make the effort to reduce paper waste, but I think we could do more here.