Global Director, Commercial Capabilities and Prestige

Suntory Global Spirits; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Global exposure

Regular international travel

Job summary

Suntory Global Spirits seeks a Global Director of Commercial & Prestige Capabilities to architect people capability across the global commercial and prestige organization. You will design and govern the Commercial Excellence Academy and Founders Prestige Academy, shaping learning agendas and training curricula at scale.

You will drive competency modelling, cross-regional alignment, and adoption of global capability plans while collaborating with HR, regional ComEx, and business leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Commercial Excellence, Capability Development, or L&D roles within FMCG or Spirits industries, including Prestige brands.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale commercial capability frameworks and training programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the People Capability Strategic Plan by designing and implementing the Commercial Excellence Academy, the Founders Prestige Academy, and enabling deployment of associated MBC learning programs.
• Design governance frameworks, competency models, and training curricula to enhance sales, MDC and commercial excellence across regions and markets.
• Drive change management initiatives to ensure seamless adoption of new tools, processes, and methodologies across the commercial organization.
• Partner effectively with external capability partners to develop and implement global capability programs
• Partner with Commercial IT to develop the relevant digital tools to enable the capability agenda.
• Support facilitation of The Founders Prestige and Commercial Excellence Academy when required.
• Own Regional and market leadership adoption of global capability strategic plan and associated programs.

Skills

Commercial Excellence

Capability Development

Learning & Development

Prestige brands

FMCG

Tools

Power BI

NorthStar

Job description

Suntory Global Spirits seeks a Global Director of Commercial & Prestige Capabilities to architect people capability across the global commercial and prestige organization. You will design and govern the Commercial Excellence Academy and Founders Prestige Academy, shaping learning agendas and training curricula at scale.

You will drive competency modelling, cross-regional alignment, and adoption of global capability plans while collaborating with HR, regional ComEx, and business leadership.