General Manager 

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Strathcona Spirits is hiring a General Manager as we continue to grow our small distillery.

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In this key leadership position, you’ll be responsible for continuing to drive improvement at a distillery in both sales and operations. You’ll liaise with every division in the distillery, including sales, production, marketing, and quality assurance. This role involves a mixture of office duties and hands-on tasks in production. No job is too big, no task is too small! This is a demanding role but it is also very rewarding and exciting.

 

Distillery Manager Responsibilities

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• Manage all aspects of daily operations.

• Assist in the conception of products

• Handle tax payments, licensing, and reporting to the CRA and AGLC

• Liaising with ownership and preparing monthly reports

• Create and manage budgets

• Work with suppliers

• Manage self-distribution sales, hiring and managing sales rep when necessary

• Organizing and delegating the organization of events, tours, and tastings

• Scheduling employees and training new hires

• Manage the production team to ensure our spirits continue to maintain their high-quality standards while being as efficient as possible.

• Supervise, research, and manage the production of new products.

• Maintain and ensure all distillery equipment is used effectively, in top working order, and maintained correctly.

• Monitor costs at the distillery

• Be a key representative of the distillery; this includes in-person tours, media, tradeshows, and public-facing events.

• Identify ways to improve the distillery

 

 

Work Experience

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• A significant amount of experience working at a distillery or brewery, and supervising the distillation of spirits in a leadership role.

• Significate amount of experience managing staff.

• Experience with sales.

• Experience with project management and supervision of budgets

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Key Skills

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• At ease in a leadership position

• Very strong communication skills

• Friendly and approachable

• Fastidious approach to record-keeping

• Strong focus on continual improvement

• Keen eye on the details, while also seeing the bigger picture.

• Strategic planning ability

• Marketing skills

• Operations management and supply chain management

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Apply

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Send a resume and cover letter to jobs@strathconaspirits.ca. Please use "General Manager" in the subject line.