Luxury Spirits Account Manager ( 12 month contract)

Job Title: Luxury spirits account manager, South Hub ( Munster Region)

Please note that this is a 12 month contract position.

ABOUT US

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value. At Diageo, character is everything. So, if you share our sense of adventure, you'll have the chance to learn a huge range of skills and fields, and build an exceptional career with us.

About the role

This role is focused on developing the spirits portfolio distribution, sales, and brand activation, along with shaping and deploying the relevant sales drivers across the whole on trade to win spirits share.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

• Win sustainable market share of spirits: Grow share of spirits disproportionately.
• Win spirits share commercially in the top outlets and groups across Ireland: Build and execute the commercial investment strategy.
• Lead the spirits growth plan in key strategic groups through brilliant head office engagement and relationship management.
• Be the best partner through amazing engagement and activation: Collaborate with Strategic On-Trade operators to implement programs & develop activity & events. Work alongside and with the current sales team to deliver a seamless customer experience.
• Amplify our brands: Collaborate with local and global brand and distillery teams to develop high impact brand projects for the portfolio).
• Brand Advocacy: Devise and implement a commercial brand strategy to generate brand love across key on trade influencers and bar tenders in the top venues in Ireland with bespoke brand training and engagement.
• Lead M&E activity to ensure we are constantly improving our plans.

ABOUT YOU

• High level spirits knowledge
• Strong commercial drive and commercial curiosity
• Proven brand development and activation experience
• Project Management, analytical and core selling skills.
• Ability to build powerful relationships and work collaboratively within a team.

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.