Gtr Head of Category

**Job Introduction**:
Global Travel Retail (GTR) is the shop window to the world Exceptionally showcasing our iconic and award-winning luxury spirits portfolio across international airport stores and cruise ships. The future is extremely bright for our premium and luxury spirits portfolio within the travel retail channel, and this role will be critical to the success of our growth plans.

**Main Responsibility**:
In this high-impact role, you will lead category strategies, leveraging customer data, shopper insights, and market analysis to enhance brand presence and performance. You'll be a key driver of the annual planning cycle, collaborate with the global insights / analytics teams and identify new growth opportunities aligned with business objectives. As a member of the leadership team, you'll manage a high-performing team, optimize brand activation and investment and play a key role in shaping the GTR agenda. If you're passionate about driving commercial success, this is your chance to make a difference

You will need strong commercial acumen, with strong category management experience at a senior level, as well as extensive experience leveraging customer, category and shopper data to drive brand and business performance. It is essential you are analytical as well having strong people skills to build a high performing team, partner with key stakeholders and contribute as part of the GTR leadership team. You will be agile to identify opportunities through analysis that enable performance and should have experience with Route to Consumer programmes as well as Measurement and Evaluation delivery.

It’s essential you can confidently create, present and deliver strategic commercial arguments, grounded in insight and analysis, that are financially sound and deliver growth. You’ll be a motivated commercial leader with the ability to work in collaboration with multi-cultural teams from different functions, time-zones and markets to achieve the best results. Occasional international travel is a requirement, you’ll have a strong cultural awareness and the ability to speak more than one language is a benefit but not essential.

**What we can offer you**:

- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Our employees can 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.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our 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.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows 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.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.

**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.

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 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 everyday”.
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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