Chivas Brothers is the Scotch whisky business of Pernod Ricard. Kickstart your international career on the Grad Programme without boundaries.
Who we are
Life with us at Chivas Brothers is challenging, fun, exciting and rewarding.
Our employees are the driving force behind our critically acclaimed range of Scotch whisky brands. We value every single member of our team, we respect their individuality and freedom, and we cherish their expertise. We believe encouraging entrepreneurship and nurturing talent is the key to our dynamic, ambitious workforce.
As Graduate Brand Ambassador, you will be assigned to a specific Pernod Ricard office overseas where over two exciting years, it will be your mission to bring Chivas Brothers' brands to life. Each year we have opportunities in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia and dependent on language skills and cultural fit you could find yourself in any one of our markets for the duration of your two years on the programme.
Our award-winning portfolio features some of the world’s most revered Scotch whisky brands.
These include Chivas Regal, the world’s first luxury whisky and No. 1 Scotch whisky in China; Ballantine’s, Europe’s No. 1 Scotch whisky; The Glenlivet, the single malt whisky that set the standards for Speyside malts; and Royal Salute, the world’s only exclusively prestige whisky range.
Recruitment Process
We close applications in January 2023, after which our team begin a thorough recruitment process to ensure we select the best candidates for this opportunity of a lifetime!
All we ask for the initial application is an up-to-date CV and Cover Letter. Please ensure you capture your personality and creativity while preparing this as well as showcasing relevant qualifications and experience.
After an initial screening, we invite some applicants to a video interview and online assessment. We then invite around 80 candidates to Assessment Centres in Glasgow and London. These will take place in March 2023.
Finally, we will select our final candidate pool and match successful applicants with an international location. After a final chemistry meeting with your selected market, we will prepare your offer and contract to begin with us in August 2023.
Culture & Values
At Pernod Ricard we have our own way of doing things, we call it conviviality. And as "créateurs de convivialité", we live the Pernod Ricard Mindset every day, in everything we do.
This unique quality is something you feel and experience when working at Pernod Ricard and we are dedicated to ensuring it is felt throughout the business. Our culture connects everyone who works at Pernod Ricard across our brand portfolio and the globe.
Make an impact with us – feel empowered to perform, sustain the communities around you and bring your whole self to work each day.
Equality & Diversity
At Pernod Ricard, we strongly believe in blending performance with conviviality. We apply this mindset to everything we do within our company and beyond. Our last employee survey I Say showed that 94% of our employees were proud to be associated with Pernod Ricard and 88% of our employees said they felt engaged or highly engaged.
We operate in more than 70 countries globally and know it is crucial for our company to mirror the broad spectrum of our consumer base. We’ve leveraged our Better Balance programme to build a more gender balanced workforce and to close the gender pay gap. We are now strengthening our drive for a more diverse and inclusive culture with a new internal roadmap ‘Live without labels’.
As part of creating the best work environment for our employees, we’ve rolled out an updated Group Health and Safety policy, ‘Taking care of each other’, based on the key priorities of culture, leadership and performance.
Outside our organisation, we are committed to sharing our knowledge and to working with our partners to create shared values in our supply chain, ensuring our activities are safe, respectful and responsible. We have also launched a free ‘Bar World of Tomorrow’ training course in partnership with the Trash collective and the Sustainable Restaurant Association to help develop more sustainable bartending practices.
Benefits
- Company pension
- Generous holiday allowance
- International travel
- Life insurance
- Private healthcare
- Wellbeing initiatives
