Global Retail Shopper Project Manager

Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Traveller, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Svedka, Wheatley, BuzzBallz, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.

The Global Retail Shopper Project Manager owns point-of sale materials for our global portfolio of brands. This role is the central point of coordination between Sazerac Marketing, Sales, Procurement & External Suppliers, and will own, define and operate the process to ensure all program components are specified, designed, ordered, and delivered on time and in budget.

This includes durables, equipment, displays, printable POS, wearables, giveaways, etc. and means managing the process to ensure everything meets brand design guidelines, shopper programming requirements, and sales needs.

This position combines strategic project planning, team leadership, and operational oversight to deliver breakthrough retail experiences on time and within budget. Additionally, the Program Manager champions process improvements and brand standards, leveraging collaboration, problem solving and centralized tracking and dashboards. ​ 

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with The Shop, Brand, Shopper Marketing, Sales, Procurement and Supply Chain to ensure alignment and smooth execution of retail projects.​​ Act as the central point of contact for retail progress updates.​​ 

• Support integration of retail priorities into channel and customer planning.​

• Build clear, repeatable processes for tracking retail program from concept through commercialization.​​ Own the cadence of meetings, reports, and reviews related to retail progress.​​ Develop quarterly catalogues, ordering portals, dashboards, scorecards, or trackers that give leadership visibility into progress and gaps.​

• Manage outside third-party POS production & fulfillment vendor(s). Work with brands & internal agency to define what should be available when. Work with sales and shopper on specifications, with procurement and finance on costs and with local/regional teams on delivery/execution needs.

• Facilitate post-launch reviews to capture learnings and improve future programs.​​ Serve as a resource for best practices in program and project management.​

• Champions process improvements and brand standards, leveraging collaboration, problem solving and centralized tracking and dashboards.

• Maintain a master view of the retail project pipeline, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and KPIs are on track.​​ Identify risks, blockers, and interdependencies early and proactively problem-solve with teams.​​ Drive accountability across functions to ensure commitments are met.​​

• Ensure all launches are executed with the highest level of readiness — from sell-in materials to retail execution.​​ Facilitate post-launch reviews to capture learnings and improve future programs.​​ Serve as a resource for best practices in program and project management.​​

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Solid experience in Project Management, Trade Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Retail Marketing, or Marketing Operations.
• Proven track record delivering complex retail projects involving POS materials, displays, promotional items, and merchandising assets.
• Experience working with external agencies, creative teams, production vendors, and procurement functions.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Budgeting, planning and/or financial analysis experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritize.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in alcohol beverage industry or CPG/ FMCG overall
• Experience managing global or multi-market retail activation programs.