Job - Corporate Relations Manager

Please note this is a 2 year Fixed Term contract

Diageo’s ambition is to create the best-performing, most trusted, and respected consumer products company in the world. The Diageo Performance Ambition clearly outlines the business strategy.  The role of Corporate Relations is to protect our license to operate, allowing us to continue to grow our business while celebrating our brands and people across operations on the island of Ireland.

With a heritage stretching back to 1710, Ireland continues to be a key sourcing landscape, production hub, and major market for Diageo, along with being the home of some of our most iconic brands including Guinness, Baileys, and Smithwick’s.

The Corporate Relations Manager plays a critical role across all parts of our business, including Supply, Global Brands, global functions, and commercial teams to help shape and drive our performance ambition.

The size and extent of Diageo’s Irish operations create significant and complex challenges across the regulatory, society, and communication agenda.

Due to the scope and extent of operations, Diageo’s reputation, agenda interests are diverse!

The remit of this role covers the IOI market but will also support Brand Homes and the delivery of capital projects. The role reports directly to the IOI Corporate Relations Director, and will play a pivotal role in safeguarding and enhancing the company's reputation and license to operate.

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 Diageo to thrive and for us to realize our 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 unique contribution each person brings.

About you

• 3-5 years of experience in Corporate Relations, either directly, within an agency setting or in an in-house role.
• Industry stakeholder engagement skills in support of our reputation, leadership and commercial agendas.
• Clear knowledge and understanding of Irish media and political landscape.

About the role

• Support delivery of the Corporate Relations programme across reputation, policy, and Society 2030 priorities.
• Support Brand Homes and marketing teams to maintain compliance with external communication policy, industry codes, voluntary standards, and the Diageo Marketing Code.
• Coordinate with marketing, legal, and brand teams to ensure responsible drinking requirements are reflected across campaigns and activations.
• Support the delivery of capital projects through stakeholder mapping, preparation of materials, and engagement with state agencies, local authorities, and community stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining Diageo’s reputation and relationships with key stakeholders.
• Management of all corporate relations policy risks and opportunities.
• Support the delivery of capital projects across supply and demand business
• Provide regulatory support to Irish Brand Homes and Irish marketing teams  
• Track policy and regulatory developments that affect operations and capital projects. Provide clear updates and support briefing materials.
• Assist with issues and crisis response. Coordinate actions and prepare accurate supporting content.
• Deliver communication and engagement materials for announcements, events, and internal briefings.
• Support delivery of Positive Drinking programmes and ensure alignment with responsible drinking principles across business activity.
• Prepare briefing notes, Q&A, and content for senior leader engagement with media, stakeholders, and public bodies.
• Coordinate events and speaking opportunities that reinforce corporate priorities and strengthen key relationships.
• Work closely with public affairs colleagues on policy monitoring, stakeholder engagement, and delivery of advocacy activity.
• Build strong internal networks across Marketing, Supply, Legal, and other teams to ensure Corporate Relations inputs are integrated into planning and execution.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.