European Travel Retail Manager
The Quintessential Brands Company is a leading, independent, fast growing drinks company. Our brands include Greenall's, Opihr, Bloom, Dubliner and Feeney's as well as an enviable portfolio of retailer brands.
As the world starts to open up again, Global Travel Retail is a key area of growth for Quintessential Brands and we are now looking for a European Travel Retail Manager to join our GTR team, responsible for driving new business and account management across our European Travel Retail category.
A Taste of The Job
The European Travel Retail Manager will work to ensure the profitable development of Quintessential Brands in specific travel retail sales channels, including border stores, airlines, cruise lines and DF wholesalers, in alignment with our brand building philosophy and global brand strategies. Reporting to the GTR Director, you will identify key target outlets and operators across EMEA, agreeing and delivering GTR strategies to optimise the visibility of our brands and develop the QB business at store level and above.
A Flavour of the Business
We are a unique blend, a 10 year-old business with a 250+ year heritage, a pioneering company with ambitions to grow and share our passion for spirits with generations to come. We’re not perfect, we still have processes and systems to implement and improve and as a company we operate in a lean and agile way, but we are getting there. Joining QB (as we’re known to our friends) is a unique opportunity to roll your sleeves up, get stuck in and really help to shape the business as we expand. Are you ready for the challenge?
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
- Demonstrable experience within Global Travel Retail, ideally representing premium spirit brands
- A great commercially-driven winning mind-set, with a proven track record of increasing sales and profit with the main Global Travel operators
- An incurable analytical hunger and attention to detail - but combined with an ability to see the bigger picture and create and implement strategies which bring about a step change in performance
- Experience of building a budget up from product (or SKU) level, monitoring it and then ultimately delivering the volume and profit targets through a combination of intelligence, inspiration and perspiration
- Superb interpersonal skills – an ability to build the very best long term relationships with colleagues, customers and distributors
- Experience of managing highly impactful activations…from securing the space to hiring the promoters to liaising with our Brand teams to ensure excellent execution of the promotion (along with measurement of its performance)
- Additional language(s) would be desirable but are not essential
The Essence of QB - The Benefits
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Company pension
- 25 days holiday
- Life assurance
- Annual bonus scheme
- Healthcare
- Team
- Global Travel Retail
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
Our Culture - The Essence of Quintessential Brands
We're an 'all hands on deck' kind of place where you'll have the opportunity to get involved in end to end projects, implement systems and process. We're fast, agile and entrepreneurial but, most importantly, our people are at the heart of what we do.
While we do work hard, we do it with a sense of fun, pride and passion that you won't find anywhere else.
Are you never shaken and very rarely stirred? More Cosmopolitan than Old Fashioned? Approach everything you do with a dash of creativity and a squeeze of positivity? Then we need you!
About Quintessential Brands Group
Established in 2011, Quintessential Brands Group is one of the most successful spirits companies to emerge from the UK in the last decade. The company offers a complete range of services and products to its customers across the world; producing and distributing some of the world's most-loved spirits brands, including Greenall's, the Original London Dry Gin, Opihr Spiced Gin and BLOOM Gin, as well as developing and producing some of the most commercially successful retailer brands of recent years for trade customers, and co-packing for some of the world’s most well-known spirits brands.
Recognised by the industry as International Spirits Challenge Gin Distiller of the Year five times in the last six years, Quintessential Brands is renowned for its unrivalled gin distilling capabilities heritage dating back to 1761 and is emerging as one of the most dynamic new entrants in the Irish whiskey market with the Dublin Liberties Distillery. With world-class product development and manufacturing at four world-class production sites across Europe and an award-winning premium brand portfolio comprised of English Gins, Irish Whiskeys, Irish Creams and Liqueurs, Quintessential Brands is committed to being the indispensable spirits partner of choice to its customers across the world, with customers and insights at the heart of everything we do.
European Travel Retail Manager
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