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Brand Home Lead Guide

Organisation: Diageo

Location: Oban

Brand Home Lead

Oban Visitor Centre   

Permanent – Full-time   

Closing Date – 31st March 2022

   

About Us   

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     

We have an outstanding opportunity to join our hardworking team at our Oban Visitor Center as a Brand Home Lead.

As a Brand Home Lead, you’ll be vital to the day-to-day management of the Brand Home Visitor Centre. You’ll contribute towards leading our teams for everyday success.

Our Brand Homes showcase to the public who we are and what we do. You’ll drive the performance of the Brand Home and ensure that the team deliver outstanding standards of customer service and exceptional and memorable visitor experiences. 

As well as providing collaborative support to the Assistant Managers with operational and facility management activities, you’ll act as Operational Supervisor responsible for the opening and closing of the Brand Home, supervising both the safe and till for banking purposes as well as being responsible for stock control.  

You’ll provide support and supervision of the Brand Home Guides and agency staff, including scheduling, monitoring and recording of working hours, supporting new and ongoing training to the team as well as ensuring ongoing personal development and the reporting of team performance and targets.  

Not only will you support the Assistant Managers in event strategy, but you will be vital in building community engagement and the delivery of the Brand Home sustainability ambition. 

About You 

We’re looking for people with character: driven, resilient and open-minded.  Are you passionate about customer service and driving excellence within your team?  We certainly hope so!  

We are looking for someone with experience inspiring outstanding teams to deliver whilst ensuring excellent customer service. You’ll bring your leadership, inclusivity and strong collaboration into your ways of working and ensure everyone is working with a customer first approach. Recent F&B/Hospitality/Retail managerial experience would be an advantage.

You’ll value the importance of working in a team and demonstrate the ability to build strong working relationships with contractors and customers as well as key partners. 

  

You’ll be experienced working towards targets and have the ambition to achieve necessary targets whilst subsequently encouraging the team daily to work towards these targets.   

You’ll be flexible as the role requires both evening and weekend work throughout the year and this will be planned in advance. It’d be excellent if you had an understanding of Microsoft office or similar applications however this is not essential.

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 

Application Deadline: Thursday 31/03/2022