Share Plans Process and Project Manager

Job Description :

Job Title: Share Plans Process and Project Manager

Location: Budapest

Contract terms: 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 role

Lead optimisation, transformation and automation of global share plan processes, improving participant experience, operational control and scalability. Routine administration and transaction processing should be delivered through GBO, vendors, automation or self-service wherever possible.

Lead UK and Ireland all employee plans end-to-end processes.

• Drive simplification, standardisation and automation of share plan processes and controls including leading UK and Ireland all employee plans end-to end processes.

• Lead share plan, projects, system enhancements and transformation initiatives from design through adoption.

• Improve participant experience by redesigning processes, guidance and service touchpoints.

• Partner with vendors, GBO/the Reward Hub teams, and internal teams to optimise delivery,  reduce manual work and lead share plan communications to improve participant engagement and understanding.

• Measure efficiency improvements, adoption outcomes and operational benefits from process changes.

What you will bring

• Experience leading projects or process improvement programmes

• Knowledge of global employee share plans including approved UK and Irish plans or regulated reward environments;

• Strong stakeholder management and vendor coordination skills

• Experience with automation or operational excellence methodologies

• Experience of employee communications

• Understanding of share plan legislation, global taxation frameworks and regulatory requirements

• Experience managing complex share plan events such as grants, vestings, exercises and participant reporting

Benefits

• Unique Family Leave opportunity

• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world

• You will deal with world class brand portfolio

• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities

• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop

• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym

• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’tlet anything stop you from applying.

Diversity statement

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 our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its 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.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-08-25