Beam Suntory is Crafting the Spirits that Stir the World. Rooted in two centuries of family heritage, Beam Suntory has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Beam Suntory is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

Whisky Inventory Analyst  

What makes this a great opportunity?

Beam Suntory is ‘Crafting the Spirits that Stir the World’. Rooted in centuries of family heritage, Beam Suntory has evolved into one of the world's leading premium spirits companies where each employee is treated like family and trusted with a legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people – we are driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation, operational excellence and entrepreneurial spirit. Beam Suntory’s ambition is to become the most admired and fastest growing premium drinks company in the world.

Our five distilleries across Scotland produce spirit for some of the most recognized and admired brands within the Scotch whisky category. The Scotch Blending, Inventory, Cask and Supply function plays a critical role in ensuring these brands are supported with both high-quality whiskies, but also that forecasts can be delivered to support the sales forecasts globally across our markets. This requires both short term and long-term thinking.

To ensure the spirit matures into the beautiful whisky that our brands are famous for, the spirit is matured under the careful supervision of the Chief Blender and only when the whisky is ready will it be realized for bottling. To underpin crafting world-renowned brands there must be a sustainable supply available of maturing inventory.

The role of the Scotch Whisky Inventory Analyst is to play an instrumental role in ensuring short, medium and even long-term desires of the Brandhouse are assessed meticulously in-line with distillery, maturation and production capability within the Scotch Whisky Operating Unit (OU)

Role Responsibilities

The role holder will be based at our Springburn site and will be accountable for ensuring the effective utilization of the maturing inventory assets by management of blend formulae with the provision of analysis for sales forecasts regarding bulk inventory, warehouse depletions and new filling levels.

Working closely with the Chief Blender, Scotch, and also with the following functions: Brandhouse, Distillery & Maturation teams, Supply planning, Finance the role holder will analyse, develop and recommend the plans to ensure the Whisky profile for our portfolio are aligned with the long-term vision for the brands and that stocks are available to meet the sales forecast. This will include in-depth analysis of volumes at age, whisky type and cask maturation level to ensure efficient use of the stocks to support formula in-line with spirits COGs targets and also assessment of spirit laydown requirements from a distillery output and cask supply perspective (the latter for both full maturation and further maturation requirements).

With a growing inventory of 900,000 casks in maturation to support the Scotch and other areas of the Beam Suntory portfolio it is essential that the role holder develop and execute the plans to ensure the Whisky profile for brands, within the remit, are aligned with the long-term vision for the brands and that stocks are available to meet the sales forecast. It’s essential that the role holder is commercial astute, is creative in their thinking, has a desire to attain quality excellence and is a strong collaborator.

Qualifications & Experience

Education: Ideally educated to degree level, or relevant significant experience within stocks planning (ideally within Whisky industry)

Certifications/Licensure: Not essential, but ideally Institute of Brewing and Distilling

Years of experience: +5 years in Planning/Inventory Management, ideally within Whisky category

Level and type of experience:

1. Experience in Whisky stocks management
2. Experienced in â€˜Operational & Distilling Excellence’ programs that drive best in class spirit quality is advantageous
3. Inclusive and collaborative style - able to multi-task, connecting people and adopting best-practices
4. Quality excellence mindset, driving high level of discipline and exceptional execution skills
5. P.C. literate with sound knowledge of MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Word. Experience of DRAMS and SAP preferable
6. Highly numerate, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
7. Ability to discuss/present to colleagues at varying levels of the organization

Industry experience:  Ideally background in a Scotch Whisky, and/or working with inventory/stocks in an organization with a diverse portfolio