Research and Development

Our new, state-of-the-art R&D centre will be built in Shanghai, China — the world's largest beverage alcohol market in terms of value and volume. This is an exciting addition to our existing centres.

As a part of our China R&D team, you'll have the opportunity to rapidly innovate and develop premium products that cater to Chinese consumer tastes. You'll draw on local consumer insights and trends, helping to create a premium portfolio of products developed in China for China.

Our Innovation Creation Lab based in Stamford, Connecticut, focuses on accelerating innovation. The R&D team creates new products in support of the North America and Latin America innovation pipelines. Our experienced liquid developers, packaging experts, and sensory and consumer guidance team all play an important role in translating insights and ideas into products, bringing their craft to life. The team is deeply skilled in chemistry, sensory descriptive profiling, fermentation, distillation, blending, packaging materials and product research. It's the ideal environment for true collaboration and pushing the industry to new heights.

Many of our innovative R&D colleagues have their home in our Woodside Lab in Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom. You'll have a wide variety of teams you can join in this centre: from liquid developers and packaging teams to sensory and consumer guidance teams. Regardless of which team you join, you'll play an important role in translating insights and ideas into products, shaping the future of our extraordinary brands.

We also have a laboratory in Scotland. Here, you'll play a leading role in driving innovation in sustainability from grain-to-glass, including distillation, maturation, packaging and logistics. The R&D centre is built on a remarkable heritage of innovation in the whisky industry.