Head of Reward EMEA

About the role

Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks company, is looking for a Head of Reward EMEA based in Budapest on a permanent basis. The role acts as the senior strategic Reward (Compensation & Benefits) advisor and partner to regional leadership, influencing decisions that improve organizational performance, workforce competitiveness and talent outcomes, while ensuring adoption of global reward frameworks and reward transformation outcomes across diverse markets.

Key responsibilities

• Influence regional leadership decisions through data-driven Reward, workforce and market insights.
• Align reward investment with business priorities, talent needs and workforce competitiveness across diverse markets.
• Shape regional reward strategies that support attraction, retention, performance differentiation and affordability.
• Drive consistency of Reward governance, decision quality and adoption of enterprise frameworks across the region.
• Champion global standards while applying informed judgement on regional markets, regulatory and workforce realities.
• Apply market intelligence across markets to improve reward competitiveness and decision quality.
• Lead the adoption of new Reward and Performance approaches, simplification and standardization, by reducing legacy complexity and building leaders' capability across the region.

Required profile

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Reward.
• Significant multi-country Reward leadership experience.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and to balance global standards with local market requirements.
• Strong analytical skills and experience leading change.

What we offer

• Family leave opportunity.
• Work with people from all over the world and a wide variety of thematic events and afterwork activities organized by employee communities.
• Product allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop.
• A gym and a rooftop bar.
• A highly competitive rewards and benefits package.