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Diageo Agave Innovation & Deployment Manager in Atotonilco El Alto, Mexico
Job Description :
About us:
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Don
Julio, Casamigos, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose –
Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our
brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.
About You:
Dedicated and pragmatic leader dedicated to redefining innovation projects into practical agricultural solutions.
A cross-functional leader who harmonizes technology development with hands-on application, ensuring innovations are visionary, grounded, and implemented. Proactive and committed, excelling at converting plans into
actions.
About the Role:
· The position is charged with the hands-on execution of innovation deliverables, from development through to
implementation. This role is passionate about the practical realization of projects, ensuring innovations are not only conceived but also effectively brought to fruition and coordinated into operational practices:
· Implement and deliver innovation projects.
· Direct hands-on development and implementation.
· Transition successful innovations into operational use.
· Tasked with identifying and harnessing new technologies, is responsible also for pilots and test innovations to ensure they deliver tangible benefits. Critical role for translating technological potential into practical, value-
adding tools for agricultural advancement:
· Scout and integrate emerging agricultural technologies.
· Pilot and test technological solutions in real-world settings.
· Keep abreast of tech trends to maintain a competitive edge.
· Ensures the seamless implementation and integration of new technologies into existing agricultural practices. With a focus on practical application and adapting innovations to the outstanding demands and challenges of field operations, ensuring they are both effective and user-friendly:
· Implement field-level innovation applications.
· Liaise between tech teams and field operations for smooth adoption. ·Customize and adjust innovations to fit field realities.
· Foster a collaborative innovation ecosystem, encouraging partnerships and networks that improve the organization's innovation capacity.
· Ensure that a wide range advises innovation efforts of insights and are adaptable to the needs of the broader agricultural community:
· Build strategic partnerships for innovation alignment.
· Facilitate the exchange of ideas and standard processes.
· Connect with the agricultural community for feedback and insights
Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages:
· At least 5 years of experience in R&D deployment efforts in the agriculture and/or biotech arena.
· Outstanding executive presentation and communication skills.
· Bachelors degree in agriculture, engineering, biotechnology, biology, agronomy, or related.
· Strategic thinking
· Leadership and communication skills.
· Demonstrated skills and experience in collaborating effectively within diverse, multi-tiered team environments.
· Proficient in seamlessly transitioning from strategic, big-picture analysis to hands-on involvement.
· Excellent communication skills, strong interpersonal and excellent teamwork skills.
· English speaking proficiency
· Availability to travel and visit our fields around Jalisco.
· Full time-based in Guadalajara
We offer stellar benefits!
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.
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.
Character Is Everything
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Guadalajara
Additional Locations :
Atotonilco el Alto
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-02-06
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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