PLAY

Join the world's most entertaining whisky experiences

Owned by the Artisanal Spirits Company, the Scotch Malt Whisky society provides members with inspiring experiences and exclusive access to a vast and unique range of outstanding single cask Scotch whiskies and other spirits from over 20 countries.

CAREERS WITH US
people drinking in private club

Artisanal Spirits Company

Artisanal Spirits Company is a leading curator and provider of premium single cask Scotch malt whisky. We bring together some of the world’s best spirits producers with a growing movement of discerning consumers by curating unrivalled collections of craft spirits.

Artisanal Spirits Company owns The Scotch Malt Whisky Society which was established in 1983. SMWS allows its members to discover, share and celebrate single malt whisky straight and is recognised for its award-winning whiskies and unique and playful approach. 

We have made it our mission to build our whisky community by offering a valuable membership experience that attracts and inspires involvement. 

Our team

Our staff are as passionate about the Society and its cask-strength offerings as any member, working in a creative and encouraging environment where whisky is at the centre but the member is the star of the show – and where an unconventional approach will always be welcome.

Careers with us

This role will support the delivery of digital transformation projects and provide hands on approach to resolving technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities

  • Create project plans, organise and manage number of digital transformation projects with challenging scope and deadlines
  • Provide updates on project progress, budgets and quality of delivery
  • Work with the Head of Technology to identify constraints and propose resolutions.
  • Ensure that all projects are completed according to time, cost, and delivery requirements
  • Anticipate and proactively resolve problems; demonstrate contingency planning capabilities
  • Support the team and wider business with resolution of blockers or impediments to delivery
  • Create documentation of risks, actions, issues, and decisions
  • Work to extract the best possible performance of our software products
  • Build effective relationships internally and externally, to ensure effective management of the scope while generating positive feedback of the experience

Experience

  • You will have experience of managing large digital projects. You have an aptitude for getting things done. You also have an eye for detail and flair for communicating complex ideas in simple language. You are a forward-looking problem solver with a strong work ethic
  • You have experience running both Agile and Waterfall projects and are proficient in both methodologies. You take a flexible approach to project management methodologies, able to adapt to business needs
  • You are a hands-on self-starter that can lead projects, from initiation to successful completion, as the most senior delivery team member
  • Manage and co-ordinate several projects simultaneously
  • Co-ordinate complex tasks and manage competing priorities
  • Influence both internal and external stakeholders to ensure high-quality results and satisfaction
  • Have proven experience delivering Ecommerce, ERP, and digital transformation projects
  • A proactive planner with experience reporting on progress to senior team members
  • Ideally three years or more experience in a Digital Project Management position.

Competencies

  • Proven knowledge in Agile and Prince2
  • An excellent communicator
  • Natural organisational skills
  • Adaptable and empathetic
  • Adept at managing expectations
  • Driven, structured, with attention to detail and a dedication to resolving issues and problem-solving

Purpose of the role  

This role will be responsible for Artisanal Spirits consumer and member facing digital products and help define a revolutionary, world class, new digital experience for SMWS members and prospective members. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the rebuild of our ecommerce websites and mobile apps, helping to drive our growth ambition for the coming years.

Key Responsibilities

  • Take the lead of our delivery teams and suppliers as the Product Owner for customer facing digital products
  • Specifically, take ownership of the product development global SMWS websites, JG Thomson Websites, and the SMWS iOS and Android apps
  • Providing vision and direction to the development teams and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycles
  • Build requirements and user stories to best support the customer experience and business needs
  • Ensure that the development teams always have well prioritised backlogs of tasks to work on
  • Plan and prioritise product feature backlog and development for the product and balance these features against the need for technical debt reduction tasks
  • Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities
  • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with business growth strategy
  • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and regular review processes
  • Work closely with the senior leadership to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
  • Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new   functionalities
  • Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Research and analyse the market, our users, and the roadmap for the product
  • Follow trends in the wider whisky, whisky experience and food and drink clubs
  • Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
  • Pro-actively seek out and use data and analytics to underpin our planning and decision making

Requirements

  • Previous working experience as a Product Owner for three or more years
  • In-depth, proven knowledge of Agile process and principles
  • Outstanding communication, influencing, presentation and leadership skills
  • The ability to create a strategic vision and sell that vision to senior stakeholders in the business
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills
  • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Creative thinker with a vision
  • Attention to detail

Competencies and Qualities

  • Ideally, Product Owner certified
  • An excellent communicator
  • Adaptable and empathetic
  • Adept at managing expectations
  • Driven, organised, with attention to detail and a dedication to resolving issues and problem-solving
APPLY NOW

Our values are what we stand for. It’s how we hold ourselves to account and how we depend on each other. This is how we live and breathe. We are responsible for this.

Respect

We treat all people with respect in any situation. We are a company that puts this at the forefront of our culture and our member first mindset. It’s how we welcome anyone into our world and sets it as a cornerstone to build on. We offer a way to communicate openly and honestly.

Innovative

Being innovative is in our DNA. Our founder Pip Hills was the ultimate innovator as he pursued his ambition to bring single cask whisky to our members. We bring this passion for creativity and innovation to everything we do, whether it is to the job or apply to ourselves. We will create and innovate to develop and grow as people and together grow the business.

Grit & Determination

We know that some challenges are tough and will take monumental effort, but we will all do our best to achieve our shared goals as a team. We agree there is a ‘right to challenge’ each other and that we do so in a positive and supportive way, so that in the end we are rewarded with success as a team in which we have all played our part.

Unique

We embrace how we are all different – our diversity is our strength. We benefit from the fact that the sum of our team is greater than the individual parts. We are inclusive and we lean in. Our ‘uniqueness’ makes us stronger – and, all together as one, unique.

Progressive

As we encourage our members to constantly explore new flavours in the whisky and spirits we offer and try new experiences, we encourage ourselves to explore new opportunities and learning. We all actively participate in creating an environment that stimulates this and thrives.

team photo
whisky tasting with group of people

Contact us

If you’d like more information about the opportunities at Artisanal Spirits Company please get in touch with Denholm Associates today.

Thank you.

Callum Beveridge

07745 524 519

callum@denholmassociates.com

We find the talent
you can't find yourself

BrandBox, sits at the heart of our successful hiring strategy. To find out more about our creative approach to attracting talent please contact us on 03303 359 818 today.

GET IN TOUCH
VIEW ALL JOBS
BACK TO HOME

HAIDER BILGRAMI

Finance Coordinator

Haider recently graduated with a degree in Accounting and Finance and has gathered experience in the finance industry through internships and previous jobs. He will be using all the skills he has acquired through his previous experiences to assist the finance department with gathering data and providing analysis that will help the business expand.

Our People

Our people are our most important asset, and their mental well-being and happiness are core to our success. We love our diverse workforce, actively embrace flexible working (even pre-pandemic!) and encourage a healthy work-life balance. We have been recognised as one of the most diverse SME workplaces in the UK and are holders of the Scottish Business Pledge which exists to promote a fairer Scotland. We have also just been included in the 2021 Culture Leaders Top 25 – an accolade of which we are very proud!

We are a fully inclusive and nurturing employer and, despite being in tech, the majority of our team are women, leading to accolades in the Computing Magazine Women in IT Awards and the Amazon Growing Business Awards. We currently represent 15 nationalities and speak 20 languages. Age is no barrier, and we recruit for attitude, providing and encouraging appropriate learning and training for each and every role.

We are also proud members of IP Inclusive, a network of professionals working to make the intellectual property industry more diverse.

DOWNLOAD

Get our best practice guide to successful virtual hiring and onboarding today.

DOWNLOAD

Our Careering out of the crisis guide will give you some expert tips to start taking positive action towards a happier and more fulfilled working life.

DOWNLOAD

You can give us a call for more information about our Career Transitioning Support or you can simply download more details here.

03303 359 818

DOWNLOAD

You can give us a call for more information about our Outplacement Support or you can simply download more details here.

03303 359 818

CloseMenu

Communication Lead

We’re a passionate and professional team who thrive in issue-rich environment and we’re looking to add a Communication Lead to our fast-growing team. You’ll be a trusted advisor to clients across several sectors in all aspects of communication, external affairs, marketing and issues management. Coming from an agency or consultancy environment, at Account Director level or above, you’ll report directly to the Managing Director and be responsible for a small and busy multi-disciplinary team. You’ll have first-class project management skills, be solutions-driven and excellent commercial acumen too. Alongside the senior team, you’ll work to drive the strategic growth of Aspect.

Your core duties will include:

  • Working with the MD to develop and deliver growth strategies 
  • Attracting and retaining profitable clients across a range of sectors 
  • Leading the creation and execution of strategic communication programmes
  • Inspiring, leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams
  • Developing strong relationships with clients, colleagues and associates
  • Producing high quality pitches and proposals to secure new business 
  • Curating, nurturing and managing a team of talented associates.

You’ll be a skilled communicator, interested and knowledgeable about the key issues shaping the external environment. In addition, to be considered for this role, you must be able to demonstrate:

  • 7+ years of senior leadership experience within an agency or consultancy
  • Experience in Energy, Renewables, Financial Services or Life Sciences would be very desirable
  • Outstanding writing skills and the ability to engage and excite an audience
  • An impressive track record of client attraction, retention and growth 
  • The ability to thrive fast-paced environment managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Strong influencing and leadership skills to motivate and inspire those around you
  • Excellent planning, evaluation and project management skills
  • To develop new processes, systems and ways of working to drive performance
x

Communication Advisors

We’re a passionate and professional team who thrive in issue-rich environment and we’re looking for Senior Communication Advisors, Communications Advisors and Communications Executives to join their fast-growing team. 

You’ll have previous agency experience at Senior Account Manager or Account Manager level and be passionate about delivering excellent results for clients. You might be a specialist in PR and media relations who produces compelling editorial content across a range of topics and sectors or you might be a public affairs expert who understands the policy landscape and helps clients build influential relationships. Whatever your specialism, you’ll be an excellent writer, full of creative ideas, with proven client management experience and the ability to provide expert advice our clients.

Your key duties will include:

  • Supporting the key account lead with day-to-day client liaison, providing strategic counsel on day-to-day account matters when required
  • Active involvement in planning and delivering global PR, marketing and digital campaigns
  • Managing content programmes, including mapping out content themes, spotting industry trends and story angles, writing copy when required which may include opinion articles, web and social
  • Building strong media relationships, creating pitches based on your story ideas and delivering content in-to suit the client’s target media and securing opportunities
  • Planning and running client’s social media programmes, and management of their channels
  • Continuously identifying opportunities to grow brand awareness and profile our client’s businesses within their target sector through events, webinars, thought leadership
  • Producing comprehensive and timely reports on client activity 
  • Supporting in the development of client proposals to help grow or win parts of the business


In addition, to be considered for this role, you must be able to demonstrate:

  • Proven background in account handling and direct client liaison – 4 years’ minimum
  • Experience in an agency setting focusing on B2B communication or PR
  • Strong communications skills, verbal and written
  • A background in delivering creative, digitally led B2B communications such as LinkedIn campaigns
  • An innate understanding of earned media, with the ability to create stories and generate coverage across traditional media, digital and social
  • Experience working on content management programmes, with an awareness of the changing way business audiences consume information and an appreciation of search, paid and wider customer marketing activity, and how it all fits together
  • A history of working with clients in a variety of sectors is welcomed but experience in the tech and energy industries is advantageous.

SEARCHING FOR SALARY INSIGHTS?

DOWNLOAD OUR UK ECOMMERCE SALARY GUIDE HERE.

HIRING NEW SKILLSETS CAN BE TRICKY...

DOWNLOAD OUR NEW ECOMMERCE INTERVIEW GUIDE HERE.

APPLY HERE:

DATA ENGINEER

Our Purpose

Our aim is to combat illicit online trade by identifying and removing counterfeits for sale. Counterfeits not only damage brands, their reputations, and revenues, but can cause significant harm to the end customer – whether as a fake toy or a fake medicine – and the consequences can be life threatening.

Counterfeiting is a significant economic and social issue.

The OECD reports that counterfeit and fake goods make up more than 3.3% of the world’s global trade. Those involved in the trade of counterfeits have been linked to people trafficking, prostitution, and drug dealing.

As such, reducing illicit trade is about much more than brand protection but also about human rights, safety, and social equity.

And this is what we do, every day.

Our Environment

We deliver purpose-driven work from an extremely welcoming environment near the City Centre. We actively encourage the responsible use of resources, from using public transport to reuse, recycling, and, of course, a minimal impact office environment. We have benefited from the advice of the Energy Saving Trust and Resource Efficient Scotland. Our waste contractor also provides us with a monthly report on volumes and types of material and the carbon emissions avoided through recycling.

Over 80% of our employees can walk or cycle to The Lair and, pre-pandemic, 10% were using public transport as their normal daily commuting mode. Without doubt, online meetings will replace considerable miles, going forward, saving resources, time and energy. Where possible, when possible, the train remains our preferred option. 

ZOE LUMSDEN

Recruitment AdministratoR

Zoe joined Denholm in 2022 as Recruitment Administrator, after working in administration roles for nearly a decade. Most recently within the recruitment industry, she joins us with experience of supporting consultants, clients and candidates at all levels. Zoe has a passion for helping people and applies her positive attitude and approachable manner to support our team and deliver the best possible service to our clients and candidates at all times.

Our Community

As well as working in close collaboration with our clients, and the online marketplaces, we are active members of groups that have been established to combat illicit trade. These include the Scottish Anti-Illicit Trade Group, the European Intellectual Property Office, The Scottish Business Resilience Centre, the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, and the China Britain Business Council. Members of our senior management sit on the boards of ACID (Anti-Copying in Design), the Scottish Ministerial Trade Board, and the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Observatory Panel for SMEs, amongst others.

Each team member nominates good causes or charities that are supported on both an individual and corporate basis. Wherever possible, we support the employee’s involvement whether through time or fundraising events.

ANGELA MCCANN

DIRECTOR OF GROWTH

Having worked in the recruitment industry since 2000, Angela brings a wealth of experience as a Recruitment Professional and a proven track record of delivering a high-quality search and selection service to both public and private companies in the UK and internationally. Angela believes in a partnership approach to recruitment, ensuring a detailed understanding of employer/jobseeker requirements and delivering a bespoke service underpinned by professionalism, pragmatism and strong market knowledge.

JAMES BLYTH

HEAD OF MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING

James has a decade of experience within the FMCG sector where he has partnered with a wide range of businesses placing key appointments at all levels including Director/ Board level. Driving growth across our Manufacturing & Engineering function, James specialises in Production, Operations, Engineering, Quality, HSE, Technical, NPD and Supply Chain. With his passion and expertise in these areas, James supports candidates and clients by working closely to understand their needs and wants providing exceptional service.

ANDY MACEWAN

HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY, CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION

Andy has been recruiting in Technology, Change & Transformation since 2001. Delivering tailored resource solutions as trusted advisor to clients ranging from start-ups through to global blue-chip organisations across contract, permanent, fixed term, and managed service/statement of work solutions. He has experience providing candidates for Helpdesk through to CIO and takes great pride in providing excellent customer service and ensuring each candidate journey is a positive one. An expert in his market he can provide guidance across current market trends.

SCOTT CAITHNESS

CLIENT RELATIONSHIP PARTNER

Scott started his career working for one of the leading Advertising & Comms agencies in Edinburgh where he spent 7 years before moving in to recruitment in 2011. As such, he is well-networked in the Marketing & Comms space across Scotland. With a friendly and consultative approach, Scott is genuinely passionate about providing a positive journey to both candidates and clients alike and believes communication plays a big part in this.  A “thinking-outside-the-box recruiter”, he is known for helping candidates portray the best version of themselves and helping clients find talent for those hard to fill roles.

DAVID RANDALL

SENIOR CONSULTANT - MARKETING & SALES

David started recruitment at the age of 23 and while it isn’t for everyone, it was for David. What he really enjoys is looking beyond the CV and really getting to know the people sitting across the table, learning all about them and building relationships with new people. And that hasn’t changed to this day. David loves solving the puzzle of balancing the needs and wants clients and candidates to reach a point where everyone is happy. Based in Glasgow, he covers the B2B market for sales and marketing roles across Scotland.

LIZ PARSONS

SENIOR CONSULTANT - MARKETING

Liz has over 14 years’ experience in recruitment working across primarily the high-tech, pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors. She joined Denholm on December 1st 2021 following a relocation from Ireland to focus on Marketing recruitment. Liz’s experience ranges from high volume recruitment to executive search and she prides herself in her ability to fully understand a brief and her accurate matching skills. Frequently praised as being a clear communicator with a strong customer service ethic, Liz is well suited to the culture here at Denholm, where the client and the candidates’ needs are paramount.

EUAN ARCHIBALD

SENIOR CONSULTANT - Technology, Change & Transformation

Euan has been working in the world of recruitment since 2012, working to deliver bespoke services to both clients and candidates. Prioritising ‘future-fit’ candidates for clients, he works as an extension of his client’s business ensuring great representation in the market. He consults with each client to ensure excellent candidate journeys. Euan works focuses primarily on business analysis, project management and technical support opportunities.

CALLUM BEVERIDGE

SENIOR CONSULTANT - TECHNOLOGY, CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION

Callum has been working in recruitment since 2018 where he has solely focussed on the Technology, Change and Transformation market across the UK and ROI. He works closely with his clients and candidates to build long-lasting relationships across several industries, including Technology, Financial Services, Professional Services, Healthcare, Education, Public Sector and more. He specialises in engineering roles across Software, Infrastructure, Systems, DevOps and Cloud, along with Software Testing.

DREW GILLIES

HEAD OF AGENCY

Drew arrived at Denholm as an award-winning creative, having headed content strategy teams for marketing/advertising agencies in the UK/USA before a successful career in HR, people and culture. He has years of marketing experience and building teams on both sides of the Atlantic, priding himself on going the extra mile for clients and candidates alike. Drew always works with passion as our specialist in account management, planning and strategy, digital marketing, full-spectrum creative and traffic/studio management.

OPTIMISE

CVs and interviews will take you to Level 2. Our behavioural profile will take you to Level 3, vital to identifying future potential.

LEVEL 1

Appears to...

  • Appearance
  • Expressiveness
  • Manner
  • Presence

LEVEL 2

Can do...

  • Knowledge
  • Acquired skills
  • Training
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Credentials

LEVEL 3

Will do...

  • Capability to learn
  • Aptitude
  • Attitude
  • Self-motivation
  • Stability
  • Persistence
  • Maturity
  • Temperament
  • Behaviour patterns