Brand Ambassador UK - Monkey Shoulder

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.

Job Introduction

Monkey Shoulder needs an outgoing, fun, and energetic Brand Ambassador with funk! Plan epic activities, explore cool cultural spaces, and spread the Monkey Shoulder love. Build relationships, champion advocacy activity, and continue to disrupt the whisky category. If you're passionate about whisky and ready for the adventure of a lifetime, apply now!

Main Responsibilities

Be the face of Monkey Shoulder and a fountain of brand knowledge to our own employees (and extended community), bartenders, customers and consumers. Use a range of fun and disruptive activities to engage and excite all spirit drinkers. Explore new opportunities for Monkey Shoulder to be present in relevant cultural spaces outside of the bar by establishing and leveraging partnerships to amplify the brand. Be a key partner to the commercial team - proactively identify opportunities for improving brand presence and driving distribution, including actively selling in the brand or creating sales leads where needed using a range of activations and initiatives. Take an active role in developing serve initiatives that align with Monkey Shoulder’s brand strategy and goals.

Our Ideal Candidate

The ambassador will love opening up people’s minds to new and unexpected things and champion unconventional thinking. The Monkey crew are genuine, proactive, optimistic, creative and deliver the best for the brand. They pay attention to detail, are masters of multi-tasking and have the ability to motivate those they work with in a fun and impactful way.

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.