At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead grain distilling operations, ensuring safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Company: Join Pernod Ricard, a global leader in spirits with a thriving culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, performance bonuses, private medical insurance, and generous holidays.
- Other info: Opportunity to shape strategy and build strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on sustainability and efficiency in a high-stakes environment.
- Qualifications: Senior leadership experience in distillation or spirits manufacturing required.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
Overview
In this role you provide leadership for all grain distilling operations within the Distillation & Maturation team, translating business needs into safe, reliable, high-quality site performance.
You will drive capital investments, safeguard regulatory compliance, and push continuous improvement for sustainability and efficiency.
You lead diverse teams, foster an inclusive culture, and build strong relationships with regulators and partners.
You will shape the distilling strategy to deliver long-term value while advancing Pernod Ricard’s responsible, thriving culture.
This is a high-impact opportunity to influence scale, safety, and performance across a leading global spirits portfolio.
- Pay / Benefits
- Competitive salary, performance related bonus
- Defined Contribution Pension
- Private medical insurance, including income protection
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous annual holiday entitlement plus public holidays
- Share incentive plan and share ownership plan
Responsibilities
- Promote safety-first culture and ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements
- Lead process safety, risk management, incident learning, and continuous improvement programs
- Deliver safe, reliable production and high-quality outputs through collaboration and continuous improvement
- Improve plant performance focusing on asset reliability, maintenance, resilience, and business continuity
- Enhance efficiency and cost management across energy, water, yield, and asset utilisation
- Use data, automation and digital tools to inform decisions and improve working practices
- Lead and develop teams, fostering accountability, collaboration and continuous learning
- Deliver ambitious sustainability goals (decarbonisation, resource efficiency, environmental performance)
- Balance environmental impact with operational resilience and commercial performance
- Shape and implement the capital investment roadmap with safe project delivery and long-term value
- Build trust-based relationships with stakeholders, regulators and industry partners
- Key requirements
- Senior leadership experience in distillation, spirits manufacturing or a comparable high hazard process environment
- Track record of delivering cost, efficiency, reliability, and sustainability improvements without compromising safety or quality
- Experience in leading, supporting and developing people, change management, and talent development
- Ability to collaborate across functions and externally and communicate effectively at diverse levels
- Hold a relevant degree or professional qualification and a full UK driving license, with ability to travel as required
- leadership
- communication
- collaboration
- distillation/manufacturing expertise
- process safety and risk management
- data-driven decision making
Head of Grain Distilling in Glasgow employer: Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture that values collaboration, innovation, and personal growth. As a Controls & Automation Engineer based in Kilmalid, Dumbarton, you will be part of a prestigious team dedicated to the heritage and future of Scotch whisky, with access to competitive benefits, a supportive environment for career development, and a commitment to sustainability and inclusion.
