Careers
At the Spirit of Manchester Distillery, we hope to offer something a little bit different.
We hope to provide a rewarding career with numerous opportunities for personal and professional growth and progression. We are a people-focused independent business where all ideas are listened to and all the team have an ability to shape and develop our future.
We are proud supporters of the Good Employment Charter, providing a safe and supportive working environment, which has led to a great team culture and long-lasting friendships.
We are an innovative and creative company with exciting and award-winning brands and ambitious plans ahead.
We offer generous pay, great benefits and rewards, and are constantly looking to see how we can further improve on this. We hope a career with The Spirit of Manchester Distillery is a long and rewarding one, but ultimately our aim is to provide every team member with the skills and opportunities whilst they are here to allow them to achieve their future goals. And of course, have lots of fun along the way!
Bar Team of the Year
Good employment Charter
Master Vodka- spirits business
Visitor Attraction of the Year
Double Gold - Signature IWSCC
Trip Advisor
What can we offer you?
Alongside the givens - generous pay rates, good work-life balance and holiday allowance, regular reviews and a strict no zero-hours contract policy - we also offer the team the following benefits:
- Complimentary Gin Making Experience with our owner and master distiller Seb
- 20% discount food, 50% discount on drinks at Three Little Words and 25% discount on retail and experiences at Spirit of Manchester Distillery
- Wellness initiatives such as free fruit, hot and nutritious staff food
- Participation in Cyclescheme after 1 years service
- Membership of Health Assured Employee Assistance platform, giving employees access to 24/7 help, advice and free one-to-one counselling
- Monthly schedule of team socials and activities, plus bi-annual staff parties
- Thank you work anniversary gift every 1, 3 and 5 yrs
- 1/2 day per quarter paid work experience in another department
- Guaranteed Christmas Day and Boxing day off
Find Your Perfect Role
At the Spirit of Manchester Distillery we offer a range of different roles so the opportunities are endless! We cover many areas such as production, hospitality, sales and marketing, events, operations, management and distilling. We also embrace the opportunity of cross departmental training, enabling you to really shape your career to where your passion lies!
Head Office
Our Head Office team look after, amongst other things, marketing, administration, sales and operations. Some jobs are based in the field, whilst others are more office based. Working across the 6 brands in our spirits portfolio, as well as Three Little Words Cocktail Bar and Restaurant, roles in our Head Office are varied, fast paced and always exciting!
Three Little Words
Three Little Words, our award winning cocktail bar and kitchen, employs both front of house or back of house roles. Our front of house team were awarded Bar Team of the Year 2022 by Top 50 Cocktail Bars, something we are immensely proud of, and testament to the hard work put in every day by the team. From serving on the floor, creating and making our cocktails, or behind the scenes, helping everything run smoothly, our FOH team take on all roles over their working week. We make everything from scratch in our kitchen, and most of our ingredients used in our cocktails are made in-house, from macerations and infusions to fat-washes and distillates.
Production and Distilling
The distillery is at the centre of our business, producing all of our spirits in the portfolio - gin, vodka, rum, vermouth, and most recently whisky. As well as our own spirits, we also collaborate with some of Manchester’s best loved venues in creating bespoke spirits, and our team of distillers work hard creating the perfect recipes. Our production team are based in Trafford Park and hand label, bottle and ship all of our orders across the globe!
Distillery Experiences and Events
Our distillery experiences are recognised not only in Manchester but nationally, as a top visitor attraction. Our gin guides deliver distillery tours and gin schools, showing them around the distillery and teaching hundreds of guests per week how to make their own gin. Our guides also work on our bar or at external events doing product sampling or hosting pop up bars at iconic locations throughout Manchester.
Vacancies
We are always on the lookout for new talent, so if your perfect role isn’t available right now, drop us a line we would love to hear from you - the perfect opportunity may be just around the corner.
careers@spiritofmanchester.co.uk