Head of Retail
Competitive Salary, Bonus and Benefits
London Based
🍾 Own the Off-Trade Strategy within Luxury Drinks 🍸
A rare opportunity to take full ownership of the UK off-trade channel for a premium, category-defining drinks business. With a strong heritage and serious growth ambitions, this is a role for someone who can balance luxury brand guardianship with commercial delivery.
The Role
- Lead the UK Off-Trade strategy across grocery, independents, luxury retail, and online
- Own and develop key national accounts as well as supporting the Off Trade team on independent retail and luxury.
- Drive volume, value, and margin growth across a high-profile premium portfolio
- Lead Joint Business Planning, commercial negotiations, pricing and allocation strategy
- Oversee trade marketing execution including in-store visibility, activation, and training
- Manage and develop a team of Account Managers, building a high-performance culture
About You
- Proven experience managing UK grocery / retail accounts within drinks (wine or premium spirits ideal)
- Strong commercial operator with experience owning P&L, JBP and negotiations
- Background in premium or luxury brands with an eye for execution and detail
- Comfortable leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders internally and externally
- Highly analytical with strong forecasting and market insight capabilities
- Ideally WSET qualified or with strong wine category knowledge
Please get in touch with Kayleigh or click “Apply Now” to be considered for this vacancy.
📞Call: 020 7871 8000
💻Email: Kayleigh.norcross@advocate-group.co.uk
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