Area Manager Southern Africa

William Grant & Sons; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A global spirits company is seeking an Area Manager for Johannesburg, South Africa. This role involves driving growth for the company's portfolio across Southern Africa, managing distributor relationships, and achieving annual P&L targets. The ideal candidate should be ambitious, organised, and highly numerate with strong communication skills in English. A competitive salary, bonus eligibility, and various benefits are offered, including private healthcare and learning resources.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus plan

Private Healthcare

Pension provision

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance cover

Product allowance

Funding for charity

Learning resources

Qualifications

• Ability to identify growth opportunities.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• Experience in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth for the William Grant & Sons portfolio in Southern Africa.
• Implement best practice distributor management tools.
• Identify and unlock growth opportunities.

Skills

Ambitious

Organised

Numerate

Collaborative

Job description

Overview

We are hiring an Area Manager to help drive William Grant & Sons’ next phase of growth in this dynamic, fast-growing region for premium and luxury spirits. Based in Johannesburg South Africa, the role will manage our relationships and performance with distributor partners across the Southern Africa region.

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.
• Holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare.
• Pension provision for employees.
• 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 three times your annual basic salary.
• Product allowance so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands with your family and friends.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim funding each 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.

Main Responsibilities

Responsible for the sustainable growth of the William Grant & Sons portfolio across assigned markets (Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana) and Duty-Free Operators. This will include the delivery of the annual P&L targets.

Implements best practice distributor management tools to embed a strong culture of planning and execution of performance and activation of brand priorities.

Uses Route to Consumer approach to identify and unlock next generation growth opportunities for the portfolio.

Leverages full cross-functional resources within William Grant & Sons to build long-term win/win relationship with distributors.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Ambitious, tenacious and highly organised, you have a track record of identifying growth opportunities and engaging colleagues and partners to help you deliver against them.
• Highly numerate with an equal focus on the top and bottom-line, you are used to operating in a complex and fast-moving environment to deliver results.
• Your entrepreneurial, collaborative style sees you build win-win relationships with all with whom you interact.
• You revel in the opportunity to spend time in markets to uncover insights which can drive performance.
• You will need to be able to communicate, at business level, in English.

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. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at [e-mail].