Brand Home Lead Guide

Location: Talisker Visitor Centre

Full time, permanent

Benefits: shared accommodation, annual bonus, product allowance, 34 days of holiday, private pension scheme, sharepurchase, and many more)

Closing date: 22nd February 2026

About the Distillery:

The oldest working distillery on the Isle of Skye is set on the shores of Loch Harport with dramatic views of the Cuillins. Producing an alluring, sweet, full-bodied single malt is so easy to enjoy, and like Skye itself, so hard to leave. Talisker is an iconic visitor centre that provides world-class visitor experiences to all our visitors from around the globe. We want every one of our guests to enjoy an unforgettable experience when they walk through the doors of Talisker Visitor Centre. That begins and ends with the people who work there. If you’ve got a real passion for our craft and our products, help us continue our story and create a future worth celebrating.

Please note: This role will require weekend and evening work with opening and closing responsibilities.   

You will be responsible for: 

As a Brand Home Lead Guide, you’ll be vital to the day-to-day management of the Brand Home, organising tours and allocating them to your team. You’ll provide vital support to the Management team with all operational activities relating to the experiential, bar and retail offerings. 

Our Brand Homes showcase to the public who we are and what we do. You'll be responsible for driving the performance of the Brand Home and ensure that the team deliver extraordinary standards of customer service and outstanding and memorable visitor experiences. 

You’ll provide daily support and supervision of the Brand Home Guides and agency staff, including scheduling, monitoring and recording of working hours, supporting new and ongoing training to the team as well as ensuring ongoing personal development and the reporting of team performance and targets.  

Our retail area holds our impressive range of Scotch and you’ll play a key role in supporting the Management team with retail strategy and visual merchandising management. You'll also help with the planning and the implementation of special events throughout the year. Not only will you support the Assistant Managers in event strategy, but you will be vital in building community engagement and the delivery of the Brand Home sustainability ambition. 

To be successful in this role: 

We’re looking for people with character: driven, resilient and open-minded.  Are you passionate about customer service and driving excellence within your team?  We certainly hope so!  

We’re looking for someone with experience leading elite teams whilst ensuring excellent customer service standards are adhered to at all times. You’ll value the importance of working in a team and demonstrate the ability to build strong working relationships with customers as well as key partners. 

You'll be eager to lead projects and put forward your own ideas to sustain and improve the business ensuring direct contribution to the performance of the Brand Home. 

You’ll be experienced working towards targets and have the strive to achieve vital targets whilst subsequently leading the team every day to work towards these targets.   

You’ll be flexible as the role requires both evening and weekend work throughout the year and this will be planned in advance. It’d be excellent if you had an understanding of Microsoft office or similar applications however this is not crucial. 

Working with Us 

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including: 

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities 

• Contributory pension scheme 

• Competitive annual bonus (dependent on performance) 

• Generous holiday allowanc

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings. 

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