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Brewmaster
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Company Background
DIAGEO PLC (www.diageo.com) is the world's leading premium drinks business. Diageo has an outstanding collection of leading beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine, including 7 of the top 20 premium spirits globally (by volume). These brands include Johnnie Walker (world’s number one premium spirit by value), Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan's and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff (the world’s number one premium spirit by volume), Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Diageo also makes a world-class portfolio of single malt Scotch whiskies, such as Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie and Oban, and American whiskies George Dickel and Bulleit Bourbon.
Many of Diageo’s brands have been around for generations, while some have been developed more recently to meet new consumer tastes and experiences. Diageo’s great range of brands and geographic spread means that people can celebrate with their products at every occasion no matter where they are in the world. Diageo’s passion for its customers, consumers, and brands allows the company to remain innovative and fueled with new ideas that drive growth across its markets.
Headquartered in London, UK, the company trades in approximately 180 countries and employs over 28,000 people around the world. Diageo reported revenues of £10.3 billion for the year ending June 2014 with a current market cap of around £47 billion.
Diageo Beer Company USA
Diageo was formed in 1997 as the result of a merger between Grand Metropolitan and Guinness. Beer and the Guinness culture have been a core component of the company ever since.
We have the first record of Guinness being exported to the USA in 1817, and 199 years later in 2016, Diageo Beer Company USA was born as the beer brewing, marketing and selling arm of Diageo in America. Its purpose is to step-change Diageo’s position in the US beer market and to be a vital player in the industry.
To manage relationships with 429 distributors who sell Diageo beer products in all 50 states, Diageo Beer Company USA has a multi-layered sales and support organization of 137. The company’s two biggest brands are Guinness and Smirnoff Ice and it has Smithwick’s, Harp and Quaker City Malt in its portfolio as well. It sells 2.2MM BBL a year across ~ 200 SKUs.
Company Culture
Diageo Beer Company has three values at its heart: quality, integrity and passion. These values, when interlocked and vibrantly brought to life, are the platform for the company’s success and reputation.
Quality means not only relentlessly pursuing every opportunity to see our products served to consumers as their brewer intended, but also holding ourselves to the highest standards of relationship-building, communication and execution. Our marketing, sales activity and presence in the market will be of an equal quality to our beer,
Integrity is about honesty, trust and commitment. Beer is an industry built on those things. We strive always to follow through on every promise, and to create and maintain the most productive relationships possible.
Passion is the driver of our company’s work – we believe we brew amazing beers, and we take joy and pride in seeing people enjoy the fruits of our labor. We are passionate not only about our product, but about our people, our customers and about the whole beer industry, and we want to see them all live up to their potential.
The Role
Context
Guinness is a branding and brewing icon. A living legend in the world of beer. To increase its relevance in the hyper-competitive US market, Diageo Beer Company USA plans to open a new brewery in America.
Situated at the old Calvert Distillery plant in Relay, near Baltimore MD, this new brewery will be the spiritual home for the brand in America. It will be both a vital part of the global Guinness supply chain and a best-in-class visitor experience. It will also be a hub for innovation and experimentation, a test kitchen for new Guinness beers that will work in partnership with the experimental brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin.
The new brewery will have a large commercial brewhouse (estimate 100 HL) as well as a 10 BBL experimental brewery. The site will also have packaging facility with canning, bottling and kegging capabilities as well as barrel aging. Additionally, there will be a visitor center with taproom, high-quality restaurant and retail components.
The new brewery will be a big step forward for Guinness and Diageo Beer Company USA. It will have the soul of Guinness and the aspirational attitude of America.
Job Purpose
The brewmaster at the American Guinness brewery will be a pivotal figure in the global Guinness network, as well as a significant player in bringing Diageo Beer Company USA brewing vision to life. The role will report into [TBD] and will have responsibility for three areas:
Assisting in the development of the build out for the brewery and being a critical advisor and input on the operational structure of the facility
Managing the day-to-day operations of the brewery to fit with the annual operating plan for the site
Co-creating the Diageo Beer Company USA experimental brewing plan, and executing a large amount of that plan through the experimental brewery on site
The brewmaster will have several critical deliverables:
Creating great award winning beer to compliment the great Guinness beer being brewed in Ireland and across the globe
Ensuring operational efficiency and optimal productivity of the facility, in partnership with an operations manager and a head brewer. Measuring success against global brewing performance KPIs
Ensuring the very highest standards of quality are met with total consistency
Implementing a co-owned plan for developing and executing world-class beer innovation
A brewing culture of creativity, contagious passion and flawless adherence to quality control
Development of a brewing team and creating a spirit of continuous improvement, brewing creativity and ingenuity, ensuring the organization always has one eye on the future
Become a visible and active member within the better beer industry through trade and consumer event participation – will require frequent US travel
Helping create a culture of beer passion and brewing expertise across Diageo Beer Company USA
The brewmaster will report into SVP Conversion in the Diageo North America supply function, but will also be part of the overall Brewery and Visitor experience team and a critical contact and partner of the US Beer Innovation team and the global beer supply team. There will be close ties between the brewing staff at the US Guinness brewery and St James’s Gate, which will include some international travel.
Size of Team
This role will manage a team of 12-15 operators and management supporting a 24X 7 operation.
Role Location
The brewmaster will be based at the new brewery in Relay, Maryland. Relay is 10 miles southeast of Baltimore and is a 30 mile drive from Washington DC and 100 miles south of Philadelphia.
Please follow the link below to submit your application:
Brewmaster
*Job Description
Company Background
DIAGEO PLC (www.diageo.com) is the world's leading premium drinks business. Diageo has an outstanding collection of leading beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine, including 7 of the top 20 premium spirits globally (by volume). These brands include Johnnie Walker (world’s number one premium spirit by value), Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan's and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff (the world’s number one premium spirit by volume), Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Diageo also makes a world-class portfolio of single malt Scotch whiskies, such as Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie and Oban, and American whiskies George Dickel and Bulleit Bourbon.
Many of Diageo’s brands have been around for generations, while some have been developed more recently to meet new consumer tastes and experiences. Diageo’s great range of brands and geographic spread means that people can celebrate with their products at every occasion no matter where they are in the world. Diageo’s passion for its customers, consumers, and brands allows the company to remain innovative and fueled with new ideas that drive growth across its markets.
Headquartered in London, UK, the company trades in approximately 180 countries and employs over 28,000 people around the world. Diageo reported revenues of £10.3 billion for the year ending June 2014 with a current market cap of around £47 billion.
Diageo Beer Company USA
Diageo was formed in 1997 as the result of a merger between Grand Metropolitan and Guinness. Beer and the Guinness culture have been a core component of the company ever since.
We have the first record of Guinness being exported to the USA in 1817, and 199 years later in 2016, Diageo Beer Company USA was born as the beer brewing, marketing and selling arm of Diageo in America. Its purpose is to step-change Diageo’s position in the US beer market and to be a vital player in the industry.
To manage relationships with 429 distributors who sell Diageo beer products in all 50 states, Diageo Beer Company USA has a multi-layered sales and support organization of 137. The company’s two biggest brands are Guinness and Smirnoff Ice and it has Smithwick’s, Harp and Quaker City Malt in its portfolio as well. It sells 2.2MM BBL a year across ~ 200 SKUs.
Company Culture
Diageo Beer Company has three values at its heart: quality, integrity and passion. These values, when interlocked and vibrantly brought to life, are the platform for the company’s success and reputation.
Quality means not only relentlessly pursuing every opportunity to see our products served to consumers as their brewer intended, but also holding ourselves to the highest standards of relationship-building, communication and execution. Our marketing, sales activity and presence in the market will be of an equal quality to our beer,
Integrity is about honesty, trust and commitment. Beer is an industry built on those things. We strive always to follow through on every promise, and to create and maintain the most productive relationships possible.
Passion is the driver of our company’s work – we believe we brew amazing beers, and we take joy and pride in seeing people enjoy the fruits of our labor. We are passionate not only about our product, but about our people, our customers and about the whole beer industry, and we want to see them all live up to their potential.
The Role
Context
Guinness is a branding and brewing icon. A living legend in the world of beer. To increase its relevance in the hyper-competitive US market, Diageo Beer Company USA plans to open a new brewery in America.
Situated at the old Calvert Distillery plant in Relay, near Baltimore MD, this new brewery will be the spiritual home for the brand in America. It will be both a vital part of the global Guinness supply chain and a best-in-class visitor experience. It will also be a hub for innovation and experimentation, a test kitchen for new Guinness beers that will work in partnership with the experimental brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin.
The new brewery will have a large commercial brewhouse (estimate 100 HL) as well as a 10 BBL experimental brewery. The site will also have packaging facility with canning, bottling and kegging capabilities as well as barrel aging. Additionally, there will be a visitor center with taproom, high-quality restaurant and retail components.
The new brewery will be a big step forward for Guinness and Diageo Beer Company USA. It will have the soul of Guinness and the aspirational attitude of America.
Job Purpose
The brewmaster at the American Guinness brewery will be a pivotal figure in the global Guinness network, as well as a significant player in bringing Diageo Beer Company USA brewing vision to life. The role will report into [TBD] and will have responsibility for three areas:
Assisting in the development of the build out for the brewery and being a critical advisor and input on the operational structure of the facility
Managing the day-to-day operations of the brewery to fit with the annual operating plan for the site
Co-creating the Diageo Beer Company USA experimental brewing plan, and executing a large amount of that plan through the experimental brewery on site
The brewmaster will have several critical deliverables:
Creating great award winning beer to compliment the great Guinness beer being brewed in Ireland and across the globe
Ensuring operational efficiency and optimal productivity of the facility, in partnership with an operations manager and a head brewer. Measuring success against global brewing performance KPIs
Ensuring the very highest standards of quality are met with total consistency
Implementing a co-owned plan for developing and executing world-class beer innovation
A brewing culture of creativity, contagious passion and flawless adherence to quality control
Development of a brewing team and creating a spirit of continuous improvement, brewing creativity and ingenuity, ensuring the organization always has one eye on the future
Become a visible and active member within the better beer industry through trade and consumer event participation – will require frequent US travel
Helping create a culture of beer passion and brewing expertise across Diageo Beer Company USA
The brewmaster will report into SVP Conversion in the Diageo North America supply function, but will also be part of the overall Brewery and Visitor experience team and a critical contact and partner of the US Beer Innovation team and the global beer supply team. There will be close ties between the brewing staff at the US Guinness brewery and St James’s Gate, which will include some international travel.
Size of Team
This role will manage a team of 12-15 operators and management supporting a 24X 7 operation.
Role Location
The brewmaster will be based at the new brewery in Relay, Maryland. Relay is 10 miles southeast of Baltimore and is a 30 mile drive from Washington DC and 100 miles south of Philadelphia.
Please follow the link below to submit your application:
