William Grant & Sons
Brand Manager
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Brand Manager
We’re looking for a passionate and creative Brand Manager to join our dynamic UK team! Working as a part of the Marketing Department you will be driving the future growth of great brands within the William Grant & Son’s portfolio including The Famous Grouse, Drambuie and Grant’s. Responsible for creating and executing marketing programs that resonate with UK consumers to deliver long-term brand equity and sustainable market share growth, you’ll have a growth mindset and want to be challenged in a role that has a high degree of ownership.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote our employees' financial wellbeing.
- Eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Opportunity to join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Employee Assistance Programme offering practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial, and legal to home and family issues.
- Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Cycle to Work scheme allowing you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which you have raised money, volunteered your time, or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
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Main Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of brand plans that drive growth across the UK on selected portfolio brands turning global strategies into locally impactful campaigns.
- Work closely with internal teams and agencies, ensuring activations are insight-led, creatively impactful, and commercially effective.
- Manage cross-functional projects and drive channel execution and performance evaluation.
- Have ownership for delivering on iconic spirits brands.
- Gain access to leading training, tools, and events to put you at the forefront of the drinks industry.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Confident and creative marketer with an insightful commercial mind.
- Loves building iconic brands leveraging a challenger mindset.
- Strong experience in FMCG or drinks.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver outstanding campaigns.
- Thrives in fast-paced environments, balancing creative flair with disciplined execution.
- Manages agency partners and internal stakeholders to a high standard.
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About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
OUR VISION
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day every day.”
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
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