Main characteristics
- Location
- Edinburgh, Edinburgh
- Company
- Diageo
- Employment type
- Any
Job summary
EdinburghPermanent - Full-Time and Part-Time positions available
About Us Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value 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. Johnnie Walker Princes Street 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
Johnnie Walker Princes Street will be the culmination of all tour and tasting experiences with an iconic retail store situated in the heart of the city on bustling Princes Street.
Our luxury Sales Associates will sell a wide range of our portfolio and create bespoke sales experiences to our customers from around the world in order to support their whisky exploration. With the support of our training programme you'll become a whisky category expert and harness this knowledge in order to upsell and be a true brand ambassador, educating and highlighting the delights of our portfolio to customers.
Alongside serving customers, you'll play a key role in the merchandising, upselling, inventory control and overall operations of the store. To work in our Sales team, you'll be passionate about drinks culture and customer trends, as well as being a true team player, collaborating with management and various teams throughout Johnnie Walker Princes Street.
We are looking for permanent full-time and part-time Sales Associates at Johnnie Walker Princes Street.
About You
To be successful, you'll need great retail (or related) experience and be guided by a customer-first mindset. You'll have the ability to create personalised experiences in accordance to customer needs by interpreting their desires, make purchase suggestions and ensure each customer has a world-class experience when visiting our store.
You'll have demonstrated experience working within a target driven environment to achieve individual and team objectives, dealing with a high volume of customer footfall. As Johnnie Walker and our whisky portfolio are premium brands throughout the world, previous experience working within a luxury sales environment is preferable but not essential.
In return, not only do we offer a great reward & benefits package, we'll also provide you with excellent training and career development opportunities, setting you up for a fantastic career at Johnnie Walker and Diageo.
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
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