Integrated Business Planning Executive

Your Manager: Lead Business Integration & Transformation Manager

Team: Strategy & Transformation

Location: Chiswick Park, London. We operate a hybrid working approach, which allows you to manage your time between home and office.

Be part of something big

We are Pernod Ricard, a leading company in the global wines and spirits industry with over 19,000 employees globally. We own 16 of the world’s top 100 Spirits Brands and hold one of the most prestigious and comprehensive brand portfolios in the industry with 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries, including: Absolut vodka, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater, Malfy and Monkey 47 gins, Malibu liqueur, Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes as well Jacob’s Creek, Brancott Estate and Campo Viejo wines.

Here in the UK

In the UK, Pernod Ricard is made up of 3 businesses:

- Pernod Ricard UK, which markets, sells and distributes our products in the UK and also drives the global development of our iconic Gin brands through The Gin Hub
- Chivas Brothers, the largest brand company in the Group, responsible for the production and management of our award-winning Scotch whisky portfolio
- Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail, the global and EMEA home of the group’s duty free, air travel and cruises business.

Your new team

This position sits in our Pernod Ricard UK (PRUK) business. Our diverse population of 300+ passionate employees have been creating conviviality since 2001, bringing our premium brands and unforgettable experiences to the UK. As the world’s 2nd largest spirits market, the UK is a key location for our company. Since 2017 PRUK has also hosted The Gin Hub, the team responsible for managing the Group’s unrivalled portfolio of ‘Premium+’ International Gins globally.

At PRUK, we have a culture that blends performance and conviviality: we are recognised as an open and diverse business with a firm commitment to our employees’ wellness, inclusion and safety and to making a positive impact on our industry and environment.

The Strategy and Transformation department is focussed on accelerating the company performance, significantly growing value market share over the next 3 years. There are 6 specialist areas working closely together with the Strategy and Transformation team: Insights and Marketing Effectiveness, Category Development, Revenue Growth Management, Integrated Business Planning, Field Sales Planning, Integration & Transformation.

Each specialism is heavily embedded into the functional teams of the organisation but simultaneously acts as one integrated team to drive strategy and transformation into the business.

The Business Integration & Transformation team, within which this role sits, is responsible for joining up all efforts across functional teams by encouraging collaboration, driving forward planning, synchronisation and transparency in order to effectively execute business plans to drive sustainable growth in line with our strategy.

Your unique contribution

The Integrated Planning Exec is responsible for supporting and leading the processes, tools and conditions that enable this high level of connectivity and collaboration to effectively execute business plans to drive sustainable growth in line with our strategy.

You will have 3 key areas of responsibility:

- Business Planning_

This role supports the Lead Business Integration & Transformation Manager in the coordination & management of the PRUK annual and monthly business planning processes, ensuring activities are co-ordinated across teams and seamlessly connected across departments and throughout the planning cycle.

This will be a key focus for the role for the year ahead as the Group rolls out new systems & processes to facilitate the business transformation ambition [to become a ‘Conviviality Platform’], which will require a revolution of the annual & monthly cycles.
- Asset Sharing_

Maintain, optimise and drive business utilisation of Brand Stream - the PRUK Asset Sharing Platform - as the sole source of assets (e.g. brand histories, sell-in support, campaign information, etc.) that support the commercial team to execute our business plans.
- Project Support_

Support the Business Integration & Transformation Team in the project management of ad hoc cross-functional projects as required.

Who you’ll be working with

Most of your work will be internally facing, your key relationships being with:

- Brand Marketing team, including Marketing Directors, Marketing Managers, Brand Managers and Execs.
- Customer Marketing team, including Customer Marketing Directors, Customer Marketing Managers and Execs.
- Field Sales Planning Manager and RGM Manager.
- Commercial team, both Field and National Accounts.
- IBP Team Members
- IT

Your blend of talent

This position could be right for you if you:

- Are a team player, with strong communication &