Cooperage Operations Manager

Requisition Id: 4112

Location:

Cadiz, ES, 11407

Our Craft

Edrington’s vision is to give more by crafting exceptional ultra-premium spirit brands. The Macallan is our central focus, supported by Highland Park and The Glenrothes in the single malt category. Our portfolio is completed with Brugal premium rum from the Dominican Republic. Edrington also has a strategic partnership with No.3 London Dry Gin.

Our principal shareholder is a charitable trust, so we were built to make a world of difference. Discover a place where values define our culture. The home of exceptional brands, where people and teams thrive.

Our Blend of Benefits

Salary €56,000-€71,000
Holiday entitlement
24/7 support for you and your loved ones to counselling, life coaching and information on financial, mental, and physical wellbeing

Embrace Excellence

An exciting leadership opportunity to drive operational excellence across our cooperage and bodega operations. This role is focused on leading teams, embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, enhancing operational performance reporting and decision-making, and delivering sustainable process and quality improvements. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing change, developing operational capability, implementing robust management systems and controls, and ensuring the business operates safely, efficiently, and effectively while supporting future growth and performance.

Make an Impact

Lead and develop Operations across Vasyma Cooperage and D&B Bodega, ensuring safe, efficient and high-quality performance.
Drive operational excellence through continuous improvement, standardisation and robust governance processes.
Build a quality-first culture, improving cask performance, manufacturing consistency and customer satisfaction.
Develop performance frameworks, KPIs and reporting tools that support data-driven decision making and operational visibility.
Lead strategic projects, business transformation initiatives and site development activities to support future growth.

Your Talent and Skills

To be successful in this role, you will have leadership experience within a manufacturing, operations or supply chain environment, along with a strong understanding of quality, safety and operational excellence principles. You will have a proven track record of delivering improvements in productivity, efficiency and overall performance, and be able to lead change effectively while developing and motivating high-performing teams. In addition, you will possess excellent communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills, enabling you to build strong relationships and drive operational success.

We’ve put together some criteria that we think is important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise isn’t an exact match. If you feel that you can add value to our role and to Edrington more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you.

*Applications close 10th November 2026*

A Place For Everyone

We’re proud of our inclusive culture – where unique experiences, ideas and perspectives are celebrated. We want everyone to feel respected and empowered to contribute to our success.

Get involved. From colleague networks like Balance, Pride and Kick-Start to inclusion allies and DE&I champions, we encourage our people to be curious, get involved and help us make change happen.