Shift Manager in Belfast

Role: Shift Manager – Diageo Baileys

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Contract: 2 Year Fixed Term Contract / Secondment

Closing Date: 11th February 2026

Shift work is required for this role including days/evenings/nights.

Base salary + shift allowance included.

Come be a part of the celebrated legacy at our Baileys Irish Cream site in Belfast! In Belfast, our Baileys site is dedicated to the iconic Baileys Original Irish Cream with precision and passion. Every step of the process is meticulously executed to ensure the exceptional quality and taste that Baileys is renowned for worldwide. Our team in Belfast works tirelessly to uphold the legacy of this beloved liqueur, delivering a product that brings joy and indulgence to consumers around the globe. Join us in Belfast and be part of a tradition of excellence that spans generations.

About the Role

As the Shift Manager at Baileys, you will provide leadership to the operational shift teams with specific responsibilities in several key areas:

• Health and Safety: Demonstrate personal commitment to Health & Safety and drive improvements in the safety culture across the production team. Continuously reduce the number of accidents and environmental incidents, ensure thorough accident/incident reporting and investigation.
• Quality: Uphold and drive quality standards across shifts, taking ownership of compliance with standards, supporting root cause analysis of quality issues, achieving world-class hygiene standards, completing line quality checks as per SOPs, and addressing customer and supplier concerns.
• Performance: Deliver extraordinary levels of performance across the site by ensuring shift teams adhere to manufacturing excellence principles and standards, supporting line teams during changeovers and line cover, and leading material suppliers effectively.
• People Performance: Achieve high performance through excellent engagement, coaching, and mentoring, challenge and manage poor performance, foster a high-performance coaching culture, ensure 100% completion of individual 1:1s and Personal Development Plans, and deploy people management processes consistently. Maintain positive relationships with team members, trade unions, and the wider site team, and work closely with the training department to ensure appropriate training.

About You

We are seeking an experienced Shift Manager, ideally with a background in manufacturing or FMCG environments, who can demonstrate exceptional leadership and is either IOSH certified or willing to work towards this qualification. The ideal candidate will be degree qualified in a relevant subject such as food science, quality, or engineering, or possess an equivalent level of experience. A strong working knowledge of Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards is essential, along with the ability to manage the performance, coaching, and development of a multi-disciplined team. The ideal candidate will be proactive and possess structured problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities to develop and sustain robust relationships, and experience working in a challenging FMCG environment. The candidate should demonstrate great leadership to drive results through people performance. We are looking for enthusiastic, curious, and energetic individuals who are self-motivated, tenacious team players eager to learn and grow quickly.

Working with Us

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including: annual bonus, six-months paid family leave, share options, product allowance, free parking and contributory pension scheme.

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application. With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 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 thinkers, leaders, and makers 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.

Primary Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland