Winemaker

About us
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is a premium focused, global leader in wine with strong positions in key global markets, supported by an unrivalled global footprint, business model, award-winning premium brand portfolio and a talented global team of over 2,500 people. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), we know that it’s the thinkers, makers and doers who have the most impact as we strive towards being recognized as the world’s most admired premium wine company.

TWE is the largest exporter of Australian wine to Asia, with our brands – especially Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Wynns - increasingly well known in the region’s more established wine markets. We have exciting plans in place to develop our Country of Origin offering with recently released wines from the US, France and Chile.

For more information, please visit www.tweglobal.com

What’s in it for you

• Attractive remuneration and healthcare benefits 
• 20 days of paid annual leave per year
• Flexible work arrangement to support your wellbeing 
• Outstanding career development opportunities to realise your full potential 
• Collaborative and inclusive culture where people and performance thrive 

About the role

This role is responsible for:

• Manage partners to ensure reliable, predictable and sustainable delivery of wine to TWE specification.
• Supporting the development of long term sourcing plans to deliver growth ambition
• Work to TWE policies and safe work practices at TWE and partner sites
• Ensure TWE’s China COO sourcing and winemaking activities are undertaken in accordance with TWE policy and processes
• Working with partners and growers to ensure grapes are sourced to TWE requirements and quality targets, including
  • Assessing fruit for maturity, quality and compliance with TWE standards
  • Co-ordinating pick decisions, intake logistics and winery planning
• Working with winery partners to ensure fruit is processed to TWE requirements and style, including
• Participate and be actively involved in tastings that are required to check quality of bottled wine and develop the portfolio of wines the winery is responsible for
• Develop and maintain a system for capturing information of potential available fruit and processing capacity within regions
• Source, compile and provide information (reports, presentations, proposals, etc) to support planning and operational requirements 
• Partner and build relationships with key external suppliers (transport carriers, industry bodies).
• Onboarding new growers
• Managing grower’s adoption of TWE “best practice” models and protocols (e.g. pruning, yield management, disease management, sustainability)
• Co-ordinate vintage vineyard and fruit grading practices, procedures and reporting
• Functional responsibilities as required to manage production steps in the winery.
• Accurate and timely cellar note generation and communication to cellar
• Timely preparation of all bottling wines to meet the scheduled production dates. Ensuring wines are compliant and in-spec (LIP requirements, quality requirements and style requirements).
• Quality assurance of all responsible wines through periodic organoleptic and chemical monitoring, to ensure suitable style and quality is maintained. 

About you

• Tertiary qualifications preferably in Winemaking, or Science related field, WSET 3 preferred
• 3 years’ experience in vineyard and winery operations in China with understanding of:
• Competency in wine sensory evaluation
• Understanding China and international wine food safety and regulations 
• Winery or food processing experience
• Viticulture cycle and different Chinese viticulture regions
• Winery operations from grape intake to bottling
• Winemaking steps and critical control points
• Quality driven winemaking 

Culture

We bring our whole selves, we’re courageous and we deliver together – that’s our DNA.  We’re a passionate bunch who enjoy working together, like to have fun and keep things down-to-earth.  We’re brave enough and care enough to have the right conversations to get the best outcome and are famous for our can-do attitude.  We’re definitely “glass half full” people and see challenges as opportunities and move with pace to achieve our goals.

If you’re ready to help us be the world’s most admired premium wine company, please apply now!

Inclusion and Diversity

Just like the wide range and variety of brands in our wine portfolio, TWE embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  If you require any assistance to be included in our process, please contact recruitment@tweglobal.com, quoting the job title and reference number.

How to apply

We move quickly at TWE and continually review applications, so if you don’t want to miss out, apply today.

Please note that cover letters are not required (we really mean this!)  All applicants will receive an email to invite them to complete online assessments that will cover three areas: personality profile, cultural fit and a cognitive assessment.  The assessments should take around 30 minutes in total and you will be able to download a report at the end of it.  We will then be in touch ASAP to update you on how your application is progressing.  We ask you to try to complete the assessments ASAP – ideally within 24 to 48 hours.

Note that we prefer to deal with you directly; we haven’t briefed a recruitment agency on this role and won’t be accepting CVs through any recruitment agency, so please apply directly.