About the role

As Campaign & Operations Manager, you'll own the day-to-day operations behind Grog's growth. You'll turn business priorities into a clear KPI-oriented annual plan, keep stock moving, keep employees on top of deliverables and build processes that hold up as the business grows. You'll work closely with the CEO & Head of Operations.

Key responsibilities

- Work with sales, marketing, finance and production to turn launches and business priorities into plans with explicit owners, dates and dependencies that are delivered on time.

- Build a stock and supply plan that keeps up with demand, accounts for lead times and cash, and flags shortages or excess stock early.

- Set expectations, track performance, check costs and close issues out.

- Develop retailer and distributor operations: onboarding, new store launches, point-of-sale deliveries, giveaway execution.

- Run internal project management system and weekly operating cadence. Turn scattered messages into tracked tasks, make blockers visible and keep plans and process docs current.

- Use data, automation and AI tools where they save time or improve accuracy.

- Keep operational admin moving with accountants, legal and advisers.

About you

- Experience owning operations in a physical-product business, ideally consumer goods, food or beverage, with a track record in a growing company.

- Hands-on experience across supply chain, logistics and external production partners.

- Comfort data, forecasts and costs.



You can turn imperfect information into a practical plan and explain the trade-offs.

- Strong partner management and negotiation skills. You can improve terms, hold people to commitments and solve problems without damaging relationships.

- Experience building and running project management systems, operating cadences and SOPs that people actually use.

- The judgment to prioritise, work independently and escalate the right decisions. You follow through without needing to be chased.

- A practical approach to software, AI and automation. You care more about work getting done than adding another tool.

- Experience in alcohol, including distributor operations and the coordination needed around registrations and compliance (nice-to-have).

- Experience with US retail and distribution, or managing operations across more than one market (nice-to-have).

- Experience handling retailer promotion & submission calendars (nice-to-have).

About us

Grog is a 6% hard soda brand founded by Cold Ones. We're selling through major retailers in Australia and rolling out in 16 states across the USA. We're a small team building a drinks brand across two markets.

Benefits

- Real ownership of operations across two markets, with direct access to the people making decisions.

- The chance to build how a growing drinks brand operates.

- A small team, a broad role and a transparent view of the impact your work has.

📌 Campaign & Operations Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Grog Drinks
📍 Melbourne