Job Title: International Category Researcher Intern

Function: Commercial / International Category Development

Location: Head Office, St Vincent Street, Glasgow

Job Level: (Internal Reference Only) 1

Salary: Scottish Living Wage

Contract: 3 Month Fixed Term Contract - 9th June 2025 - 29th August 2025. Full Time 35 Hours per week.

Date vacancy will close: Friday 11th April 2025. Where we receive high numbers of applications we may close vacancies early. If you think this is the right opportunity for you please don't delay in applying!

Who we are:

Born in Glasgow, made in Scotland and enjoyed around the world. Whyte and Mackay is home to a collection of multi-award-winning global whisky brands led by The Dalmore, Fettercairn, Jura and Tamnavulin. Our mission is to be a driving force in whisky, renowned for building brands that stand-out. Enabled by our brilliant community of 700 colleagues, reaching across 16 countries and counting. We're led by our values, continuing to grow and invest and looking for great talent to join our brilliant community. Ready to hear more?

What the opportunity looks like:-

Following on from the success of previous years, Whyte and Mackay are excited to announce their 2025 internship programme.

We have the opportunity for 8 Interns to join our 2025 internship cohort, this will be spread across various different areas within the business.

This will give students / graduates the opportunity to gain valuable work experience and skills within Whyte and Mackay home to a collection of multi-award-winning global whisky brands.

The International Category Researcher Intern key responsibilities:-

• Market Analysis Report: Conduct a detailed analysis of market trends, consumer behaviour, and competitor strategies across >$100 Spirits.
• Track NPD (IWSR) providing analysis of performance and from Copilot & (other AI tools) their impact from shopper and consumer analysis.
• Utilising our new AI solution for gaining insight from shopper reviews to build learnings for our brands and categories we play in.

On completion of the internship you will:-

• Basic steps of the sales call.
• Understand Chain on Trade partnership plans/agreements.
• Key information of W&M focus brands/SKUs relevant to North Chain on Trade.
• Effective journey planning.
• Able to Identify decision makers.
• Collect customer information - range / pricing /competitors /promotional activity/ menus.
• Understand the Route to Market process and how this impacts the customer and W&M.

Skills and experience that we are looking for:

• Be studying/interested in having a career in a relevant field.
• Be enthusiastic and keen to learn.
• Have good communication skills.
• Have strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Be Computer literate and a basic knowledge of Microsoft suite.
• Must be available from 3rd June 2025 to 30th August 2025.
• Must be able to work onsite as and when required.

Our application process:

If you like what you’ve read and want to explore this opportunity further, please apply before the closing date listed at the top of the advert.

Our team read each and every application, therefore you'll hear back from us in due course.

Should you require any adjustments to our recruitment process to help you be at your best then please contact us at HRTeam@whyteandmackay.com and we'll do what we can to support.