Responsibilities

• Drive alignment between global brand strategy and local market execution, ensuring consistency across brand planning, portfolio priorities, launch plans, and key commercial initiatives in your markets.
• Connect global and local planning cycles by coordinating Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes, ensuring clarity, rhythm, and consistency in execution.
• Oversee the timely and effective delivery of brand assets and innovations (NPD), proactively managing risks and mitigation plans where needed, while ensuring brand plans are fully aligned with S&OP processes to connect commercial ambition with supply and demand realities.
• Act as a strategic partner to regional and local market teams, working across marketing, commercial, finance, strategy, and supply chain to unlock growth opportunities and drive execution excellence.
• As a central point of contact for markets, you will support problem-solving and arbitration on key growth and business topics, while enabling clear and effective two-way communication between global and local stakeholders.
• Play a leadership role in orchestrating key planning forums and business reviews, ensuring strong alignment, clarity of priorities, and timely decision-making.
• Serve as the voice of the market within Crystal, bringing forward commercial insights, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring local priorities are reflected in global portfolio decisions.
• Actively challenge and refine A&P investment strategies and portfolio choices, addressing misalignment and driving resolution with senior stakeholders.
• Support the development of robust innovation business cases by consolidating market inputs and partnering closely with finance to strengthen decision-making and investment impact.

Requirements

• Bring strong commercial and strategic experience within consumer goods, FMCG, wines & spirits, or similar brand-led industries.
• Have a track record of translating global strategy into local execution and driving growth across multiple markets.
• Operate effectively within complex, international matrix organisations, demonstrating strong collaboration and interpersonal agility.
• Excel in stakeholder management and influencing, building alignment across diverse teams, functions, and markets.
• Communicate clearly and with impact, particularly with senior stakeholders.
• Combine analytical strength with a results-driven mindset, turning insights into actionable recommendations.
• Bring strong project and change management capabilities, delivering cross-functional initiatives with discipline and prioritisation.
• Navigate ambiguity confidently, using sound judgment to drive decisions and outcomes.
• Demonstrate cultural awareness and strong social and emotional intelligence.

Benefits

• For your health, we offer private medical insurance, income protection and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
• Our lifestyle benefits include 28 days’ annual holiday, your employee pension, share incentive plan, season ticket loans, payroll giving and more!
• You can access lots of gifts & discounts, including an allowance each year to spend on our brands in our staff shop and employee discounts from a range of high street retailers.
• We have regular events in our very own office bar, employee-run networks, a culture of flexibility and trust and a variety of tools and resources to help you focus on your wellbeing and mental fitness.
• Conviviality: the Pernod Ricard Way
• We’re committed to conviviality, and with this, you’ll be Proud to Belong to our Pernod Ricard family. You’ll be Empowered to Perform, supported to succeed, and acknowledged for the value you bring.
• We combine all this with our Commitment to Care: we are unlocking the magic of human connection to transform our industry and make a positive impact on the world though our strong focus on sustainability and responsibility.
• We’re committed to diversity and inclusion
• People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’. We promote diversity and inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse work force and an inclusive culture – an environment where we can truly be ourselves.
• Responsible drinking
• In our culture, we want to create diverse teams in which our differences contribute to our success. Therefore, all are welcome at Pernod Ricard, regardless of your religious beliefs or personal choices on the consumption of alcohol.
• In our business, we work together with industry members, civil society, governments, local authorities and UN bodies to promote responsible drinking.