Country Manager

Join our Africa, Middle East and Indian Sub-Continent team and drive the growth of William Grant & Sons brands in the region. You will be based in Kenya and cover key markets in East and Northern Africa.

You'll lead the development and execution of marketing and commercial strategies, aligning with our regional plan and global vision. You will need strong experience in P&L management, as well as extensive experience in optimizing third-party distribution networks ensuring sustainable profit streams. Collaborating with marketing teams to implement brand plans and leverage market insights, this person will build strong internal and external relationships, drive compliance, and ensure the company's brand portfolio is high performing across Africa's vibrant markets, for now and the long term.

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.
• Holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare
• Pension provision for local nationals is addressed by the statutory plan (this is currently under individual arrangements)
• 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 three times your annual basic salary.
• Product allowance so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands with your family and friends.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim funding each 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.

Main Responsibilities
Responsible for the sustainable growth of the William Grant & Sons portfolio across assigned markets, including delivery of the annual P&L targets.

Implements best practice distributor management tools to embed a strong culture of planning and execution of performance and activation of brand priorities.

Uses Route to Consumer approach to identify and unlock next generation growth opportunities for the portfolio.

Leverages full cross-functional resources within William Grant & Sons to build long-term win/win relationship with distributors.

Our Ideal Candidate
Ambitious, tenacious and highly organised, you have a track record of identifying growth opportunities and engaging colleagues and partners to help you deliver against them.

You will have experience of managing distributors in the region and/or key account management.

Highly numerate with an equal focus on the top and bottom-line, you are used to operating in a complex and fast-moving environment to deliver results.

Your entrepreneurial, collaborative style sees you build win-win relationships with all with whom you interact.

You revel in the opportunity to spend frequent time in market to uncover insights which can drive performance.

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. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we'd love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team