Experience Operations Manager

Diageo ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh

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: Experience Operations Manager - Malt Brand Homes Edinburgh Permanent - full time Closing Date - 28th June 2020 About Us Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value This is a chance to be involved in an ambitious and truly one-of-a-kind team where our aim is to create remarkable and unforgettable experiences across each and every one of our venues across Scotland. Our Malt Brand Homes will take visitors on an immersive, multi-sensory journey through the flavours of Scotland, sharing our love for Scotch with a new generation of whisky drinkers. Visitors will lose themselves in the journey whisky-making in our experiences and make purchases from our fantastic retail offerings. We want our guests to embrace every minute with us and feel the same way we do about our heritage. Being part of Diageo means being a torchbearer for our brands and making them even better for the next generation. It's a career-defining responsibility. If you have a genuine passion for our craft, our character and our products, help us continue the story and build a great career in the process. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. About the Role The goal for each distillery site is to revolve around a unique theme that is authentic to the brand stories and enhances the site character and location. The Experience Operations Manager for Malt Brand Homes will be responsible for creating and delivering the strategy to develop our visitor experiences in service of theme, emotional engagement, sustainability, increasing opportunities for revenue and extending the brand connection well beyond the visit for every customer. You will lead our Malt Brand Homes team of over 100 colleagues across our sites in Scotland in the with a strategic viewpoint toward achieving long term guest service, team member excellence and financial profitability. You will be accountable for delivering the investments into the Malt Brand Homes as part of Destination Scotland, the largest ever investment into Scotch Whisky tourism, including the Four Corner redevelopments of our brand homes. The Experience Operations Managerwill ensure the experiences are run with excellence and the team is inspired and has what they need to achieve our growth ambitions. Ultimately, they will set the tone for visitor engagement, encourage people to discover Scotch whisky, and promote sustainability and responsible drinking with world class experiences. About You You will be a true leader and role model with a background in the Visitor Experience sector, preferably having worked internationally. You will ensure our teams are inspired and have everything they need to create engaging experiences for our guests. You will have a proven track record for creating and implementing the strategy to develop world-class experiences to deliver growth in footfall and generate revenue across retail and experiential sectors. This is the dream job for someone with global commercial management experience, with knowledge of managing budgets and delivering against KPIs. You will demonstrate brand and category knowledge across Spirits and TBA (total beverage alcohol) with experience in process, provenance and identifying trends. Most importantly you will have a customer focussed mindset as our aim is to create memorable and bespoke experiences for our visitors. Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings. Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying. CHARACTER IS EVERYTHING Worker Type : Regular Primary Location: Edinburgh Park Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date : 2020-06-09-07:00 As a global leader in beverage alcohol, our 200+ brands are part of everyday celebrations in over 180 countries. Our ambition? We want to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected c