william grant & sons
Website:
williamgrant.com
Job details:
Global Travel Retail is one of our most dynamic and innovative business channels, offering WG&S the opportunity to build world-class brands for a truly global audience. With millions of passengers travelling through airports, ports, and border shops each year, Global Travel Retail serves as our shop window to the world — a showcase for our craftsmanship, innovation, and premium portfolio.
The Regional Executive role provides a great opportunity to drive change within this fast-paced and exciting environment. It is an opportunity to develop a career that combines strategic commercial management, world-class brand building, and cross-functional collaboration. Here, marketing activations, retail transformation principles, and commercial excellence converge to deliver exceptional brand experiences and tangible business results.
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.
- Private Healthcare for employees and dependents
- Pension provision for local nationals is addressed by the statutory Employees’ Provident Fund.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Private Life Assurance
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- 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.
Main Responsibilities
Working closely with GMR, Ospree Duty Free and other key partners, you will play a pivotal role in steering the commercial agenda and driving sustainable growth across the GTR channel. You will manage and support the central customer relationship, take ownership of your own region and ensure that customer strategies align with WG&S objectives while monitoring account performance and overseeing pricing, promotional activity, and compliance.
In this role, you will also contribute to commercial planning and analysis, developing data-driven insights that identify growth opportunities and optimise performance across the region. You will manage your own forecasting, budgeting, and performance tracking processes, while analysing sales trends, promotional return on investment, and market share to guide strategic decision-making.
Collaboration is central to success. You will act as a bridge between functions, ensuring seamless execution of global strategies at a regional level. Strong communication skills are essential, as you will be responsible for authoring and delivering high-stakes presentations to both internal leadership and external partners. You will provide persuasive, insight-led performance updates and strategic recommendations that directly influence the trajectory of the region.
Our Ideal Candidate
You are a seasoned, commercially minded professional with a strong analytical background and a passion for building brands in a global environment. You bring both strategic insight and operational precision, and you thrive in fast-paced, multicultural settings.
You possess strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, combined with excellent attention to detail and the capability to build compelling, insight-led proposals that deliver commercial advantage.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills are essential, as is the ability to influence and engage with stakeholders at all levels. You will demonstrate a collaborative mindset, working effectively across teams and functions, and be comfortable managing multiple priorities in a complex, global environment. A high degree of cultural awareness and adaptability will enable you to operate successfully across diverse international settings.
You should be willing to travel as required across the region and bring a genuine enthusiasm for the spirits industry and for developing a long-term career within Global Travel Retail.
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 at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.
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