Job Introduction
Shake things up with Monkey Shoulder – one of the UK’s biggest and boldest malt Scotch brands.
We’re looking for a passionate and creative Brand Manager to join our dynamic team. This is your chance to take the reins on a brand known for rewriting the whisky rulebook – a playful disruptor with serious credentials. Based in our Hook office, you’ll play a key role in bringing Monkey Shoulder to life through high-impact campaigns, cultural activations, and smart commercial thinking. If you’re excited by brand building, love working across creative and commercial teams, and want to help grow a brand that naturally disrupts, apply now. This is a hybrid working role based out of our Hook office at least 3 days a week.
Main Responsibility
You’ll lead the execution of brand plans that drive growth for Monkey Shoulder across the UK, turning global strategies into locally impactful campaigns. Working closely with internal teams and agencies, you’ll ensure activations are insight-led, creatively excellent, and commercially effective. From managing cross-functional projects to driving channel execution and evaluating performance, you’ll be at the heart of delivering one of the most exciting whisky brands in the market. Furthermore, you will gain access to leading Brand Equity training, tools and events to put you at the forefront of the industry.
Our Ideal Candidate
You’re a confident and creative marketer with a sharp commercial mind. You love building brands that challenge the norm and stand out from the crowd. With strong experience in FMCG or drinks, you know how to lead cross-functional teams and deliver outstanding campaigns. You thrive in fast-paced environments, balance creative flair with disciplined execution, and can manage agency partners to a high standard.
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.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- 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.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
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