Administrative Support Services encompasses career opportunities associated with clerical, secretarial and administrative support positions throughout the Company.

In-house Creative Services and Design at Gallo covers a broad scope of disciplines, all of them key to the marketing of more than 66 individual brands for the winery. Within these disciplines, experienced professionals work closely with brand managers to meet marketing objectives using a variety of creative solutions.

• Package Design manages the creation and development of identities for new and existing brands, in some cases even producing the original art for labels.
• The Photo Studio provides a complete array of photographic services from set design, location scouting, food styling and film processing to the execution of award-winning photographs.
• Point of Purchase and Advertising Groups help brand managers build brand awareness with effective and award-winning point-of-sale campaigns, collateral pieces and advertising.
• Structural Designers compliment point of purchase campaigns by engineering custom in-store product bins and displays.

Customer Service opportunities include positions responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships between Gallo, the customer and the consumer by performing duties ranging from processing customer orders to responding to consumer inquiries.

Customer focused, innovative and driven to advance operational capabilities, Corporate Engineering consists of Project Management, Packaging Technology, Process, Instrumentation & Controls Engineering, Engineering Services & Administration and Environmental Affairs. Primary responsibilities include:

• Platform Design: Development and adaptation, best practices, performance standards, opportunity identification.
• Master Planning: Long term capability assessment, design and annual capital plans.
• Project Execution: Major equipment specification and selection, partnering opportunities, training and technical transfer.

Corporate Engineering spans the entire operation of the Winery from vine to wine and beyond. Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide Technical Services
• Facilitate Planning Strategy Deployment
• Lead Capital Planning Process
• Focus on Improvement
• Acquire and Develop Technical Talent
• Provide and Develop Project Management
• Provide Environmental Leadership and Support

Customer focused, innovative and driven to advance operational capabilities, Corporate Engineering consists of Project Management, Packaging Technology, Process, Instrumentation & Controls Engineering, Engineering Services & Administration and Environmental Affairs. Primary responsibilities include:

• Platform Design: Development and adaptation, best practices, performance standards, opportunity identification.
• Master Planning: Long term capability assessment, design and annual capital plans.
• Project Execution: Major equipment specification and selection, partnering opportunities, training and technical transfer.

Corporate Engineering spans the entire operation of the Winery from vine to wine and beyond. Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide Technical Services
• Facilitate Planning Strategy Deployment
• Lead Capital Planning Process
• Focus on Improvement
• Acquire and Develop Technical Talent
• Provide and Develop Project Management
• Provide Environmental Leadership and Support

Plant Engineering is responsible for maintaining and improving winemaking systems at one of world’s largest wineries. This assignment includes planning, execution, coordination, and monitoring of technical activities in three distinct areas.

• Optimize production, processing, and warehousing systems
• Plan, design and implement operational expansion and upgrades
• Ensure and maintain operational capability.

Finance reviews all major business/financial decisions, prior to execution, and serves as a key consulting resource to other departments. A career in Finance provides exposure and experience throughout the Winery and offers excellent general management experience.

The Corporate Accounting, Financial Services and Tax Division within the Finance Department includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Preparation of Financial Statements
• Business Unit Accounting Support
• Payroll, Credit and Accounts Payable Departments
• Tax Planning and Compliance

Audit Services within the finance department includes the following areas of responsibility

• Improvement of Key Business Processes
• Minimization Control Risks
• Organizational Recommendations
• Strategic Analysis
• Financial Compliance
• Administrative Process Review
• Operational Reviews and Audits

Consulting Services partners with teams across the winery to assist in meeting changing business needs by enhancing knowledge and providing customer-focused solutions in areas such as:

• Cost Reductions and Evaluation
• Efficiency Improvement
• Business Processes and Procedures
• Organizational Change and Analysis
• Administrative Process Reviews
• Best Utilization of Resources
• Performance Metrics and Targets
• Best Practices and Benchmarking

The Corporate Finance and Treasury Division within the Finance Department includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Long and Short Term Profit Planning
• Acquisition and Financial Statement Analysis
• Budgeting
• Cash Management
• Foreign Currency and Risk Management
• Department Budgets and Expenses

The Distributor Operations Division within the Finance Department includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Operation of Affiliated Distributors
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Performance to Budget Analysis
• Improvement Initiatives
• Sales Department Interface

The Domestic Finance Division within the Finance Department includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Long and Short Term Profit Planning
• Advertising Spending Plans for Domestic Sales and Marketing
• Acquisition and Financial Statement Analysis
• Regional and Brand Profit & Loss Reporting
• New Product Analysis
• Department Expense Budgets
• Pricing Strategies

Human Resources helps create the kind of work environment in which creativity, innovation and teamwork flourish. Whether you are a Generalist in Human Resources or Strategic Resource Specialist, at the E & J Gallo Winery, Human Resource Associates work to anticipate and manage change. They support the overall success of the Winery by encouraging qualities of personal leadership within its employees.

Information Services (IS) supports the worldwide day-to-day operations of the Winery by creating, implementing and managing sophisticated systems of advanced information technology. From our vineyards to your table, IS develops and maintains technology solutions focused on the continuous improvement of organizational processes and products.

In 2004, the IS department was recognized as the #1 most innovative user of technology in InformationWeek magazine’s top 500 listing. Additionally, the corporate Web portal earned recognition as the “Best Business Integration Project” at the 4th Annual Portal Excellence Awards. These accolades are indicative of the IS department’s ability to leverage technology-driven solutions to enhance productivity and provide value to a wide range of essential business functions.

A career in Information Services provides exposure throughout numerous departments in the Winery. We offer an excellent opportunity to enhance your skill set and advance your career in any of the following areas:

• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Applications Development
• Process Analysis and Redesign
• Software Implementation
• Intranet and Internet Services
• Architecture Design
• Data Center Operation
• Telecommunications and Data Communications
• Database Administration
• Network and Server Support

International Finance is responsible for all the major financial and operations processes and systems to support the field activities of the Regions. In addition, the International Finance Function ensures the appropriate level of liaison and reporting to the Corporate Finance Function. A career in International Finance provides exposure to businesses in multiple countries as well as opportunities in centralized Finance at Corporate headquarters.

Responsibilities include:

• New Market Entry Analysis
• Advertising Spending Plans
• Country and Brand Profit & Loss Reporting
• Country Expense Budgets
• Currency Analysis

International Finance is responsible for all the major financial and operations processes and systems to support the field activities of the Regions. In addition, the International Finance Function ensures the appropriate level of liaison and reporting to the Corporate Finance Function. A career in International Finance provides exposure to businesses in multiple countries as well as opportunities in centralized Finance at Corporate headquarters.

Responsibilities include:

• New Market Entry Analysis
• Advertising Spending Plans
• Country and Brand Profit & Loss Reporting
• Country Expense Budgets
• Currency Analysis

International Human Resources helps create the kind of work environment in which creativity, innovation and teamwork flourish. Located in a limited number of key market areas, the International Human Resources team supports management and employees in over 20 countries. Responsibilities include generalist and specialist areas of expertise to facilitate organizational change efforts, provide leadership and employee coaching/guidance while managing compliance to local and Company based policies and procedures.

International Information Services supports the day-to-day and strategic technology operations of the International Regions operating in multiple countries outside the US. The department oversees a wide range of essential business functions:

• Process Analysis and Redesign
• Applications Development
• Package Software Implementation
• Personal Computing Support
• Data Center Operation
• Telecommunications
• Data Communications
• Phone Systems
• Intranet and Internet Services

With leading brands in every category of the wine business and brands tailored to consumers in over 80 countries, Gallo Marketing offers almost unlimited opportunities for skilled and experienced marketing professionals. Portfolio segments include:

• Fine Wines
• Table Wines
• Beverage Wines
• Distilled Spirits
• Sparkling Wines

International Marketing at Gallo is highly integrated working with both local internal and external resources as well as centralized Corporate Marketing in the areas of Project Management, Creative Services and Design, Consumer Research, Media Planning and Placement as well as Multi-Media Services.

International Sales is responsible for facilitating the distribution and sales of Gallo products across multiple channels in multiple countries. Working collaboratively with Marketing and other internal Gallo functions, International Sales representatives make it easier for consumers to select and purchase Gallo products in several different ways:

• Distribution
• Shelf and Cold Box Merchandising
• Display Merchandising
• Retail Advertising/Promotion
• Competitive Pricing
• Restaurant Merchandising Activities

The Sales function is extremely diverse , offering career development in a variety of important roles.

• Sales Representatives
• Field Marketing
• General Management
• Trade Development
• Training/ Recruitment
• Operations

E & J Gallo Winery offers a variety of internships.

• Seasonal Internships are available in the following departments:
• Technology and Quality
• Winemaking (Sonoma/Central Valley)
• Gallo Vineyards Inc./ Grower Relations (Sonoma/ Central Valley)
• Engineering (Modesto/ Livingston/ Fresno)
• High School Scholarship Internship Program
• Qualifications
• 3.2 unweighted cumulative GPA or higher
• 1650 SAT or 25 ACT score or higher
• Official transcript
• Two completed 250 word essays
• Two letters of recommendation
• Community Based Internships

Regulatory Affairs and Compliance coordinates environmental compliance activities, oversees international market entry requirements, ensures compliance with federal and state laws, regulations and standards and monitors domestic and international sources for changes in the regulatory environment. Regulatory Affairs and Compliance works closely with many winery groups such as operations, winemaking, marketing, legal, and other Gallo entities as well as various regulatory agencies.

With leading brands in every category of the wine business and brands tailored to consumers in over 80 countries, Gallo Marketing offers almost unlimited opportunities for skilled and experienced marketing professionals. Primary categories include:

• Fine Wines
• Table Wines
• Beverage Wines
• Distilled Spirits
• Sparkling Wines

Marketing at Gallo is highly integrated with in-house point of sale, package design, Consumer Research, Media Planning and public relations departments.

The E. & J. Gallo Winery represents a diversified portfolio of world-class products powered by experienced and market-savvy people. Professional, detail-oriented brand managers, think strategically as well as tactically regarding their specific brand. Often, brand managers at the E. & J. Gallo Winery are natural leaders with passion and vigor for marketing wine. As effective agents for change, they look for new and creative solutions to building brand awareness and market share.

The Consumer Research Department serves as the voice of the consumer by identifying customer-focused needs and motivations. Using a variety of cutting edge techniques and tools, it also seeks to understand these insights and communicate them effectively to other groups in the Winery, such as brand marketing.

At Gallo, the Consumer Research Department is a unique and valuable resource for planning and decision-making, recognized as a leader in its industry.

• Unmatched historical data—30 years for trend analysis
• Strong focus on strategic studies related to consumers and the category
• Recognized throughout the industry—deepest and broadest consumer knowledge

To fulfil its mission successfully, Consumer Research employs a number of state-of-the-art practices and techniques

• Category Segmentation and Analysis
• Decision Tree Studies
• Brand Profiling
• Flavor Studies and Profiles
• Online Tracking
• Strategic Archetypes
• Studies in Deep Consumer Psychology

Operations serves as infrastructure. As a department, it provides the essential systems and functional processes that enable the winery to do business. A winemaker can enjoy a spectacular harvest resulting in a memorable vintage, but that’s only part of the story. The wine must be bottled, warehoused, inventoried and distributed. Complex facilities and machinery must be operated and maintained, in some instances around the clock. The Operations Department serves as a critical and vital function, especially since the E. & J. Gallo Winery is one of the largest producers in terms of volume and variety in the world.

Bottling employs a variety of different technologies to package finished product in what may be the single most extensive and complex wine bottling operation in the world.

E & J Brandy is the largest single producer of fine brandy in the United States. From barrel dump and fill, storage, cellar operations, warehousing and bottling, E&J Brandy is a turnkey operation.

Cellar Operations processes the wine according to the wine-maker’s directions. Once the final blend is completed, the wine is filtered, cooled, and readied for bottling.

The Gallo Glass Company has risen to become one of the largest and most prestigious bottle makers in the world, supplying not only the E&J Gallo Winery but other winemakers as well. Bottling making is a complex process that relies on multiple work groups to get the job done.

• Furnace: maintains four furnaces that melt and batch raw material to be formed.
• Forming: receives, cuts and delivers molten glass to machines for shaping and strengthening.
• Packaging: analyzes finished product, for quality, tells Forming Team if modifications are necessary.
• Warehousing: stacks, stores and ships final product in custom shipping containers.

Quality Assurance is composed of eight distinct, yet integrated, functional groups: Process Integrity, Product Integrity, Technical Services, Documentation, Supplier Support, Microbiology/Sanitation, Quality Assurance Operations Support, and Analytical Chemistry.

Services include: the on-going support and measurement of quality in the production facilities, the continued development, implementation and support of ISO, HACCP and GMP programs, Supplier Certification, regulatory compliance, and the measurement of quality in the trade.

Consumer and Product Insights within the Technology and Quality department is responsible for driving integrated consumer and product decision making at Gallo. Consumer and Product Insights provides guidance and research support through understanding consumer and product development, simultaneously managing day-to-day operations for all Product Guidance Research. Consumer and Product Insights includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Consumer Relations
• Information Intelligence
• Innovation
• Product Development
• Research Operations
• Wine Style Guidance

Enology Department is responsible for improving the processes involved in making wine -from grape to bottle. Specific areas of discovery, innovation, and technology application include:

• Wine Microbiology and Biochemistry
• Applied Fermentatin and Process Optimization
• Grape and Wine Chemistry

Other key department functions involve day-to-day problem solving and troubleshooting for commercial grape growing and fermentation processes and collaboration with external partners and key organizations. Objectives are accomplished through a multi-discipline approach, utilizing cross-functional project teams that include members from Sensory, Process Technology, QA/QC, Operations, Finance, Information Services and Winemaking Departments.

The Process Technology Department develops innovative, cost-effective, and environmentally sound technologies for enhancing winemaking processes. It also manages a product development effort and recovers valuable by-products from grapes and wine-processing residues. Overall responsibilities include:

• Technical Support for winemaking operations such as waste treatment.
• Experimental Studies to improve efficiency.
• New Technology Evaluation for process Improvement and product development.
• Implementation of New Technology Programs of strategic importance.
• Collaboration with outside technical organizations.

With its broad technology scope, Process Technology works closely with many technical groups such as: research, winemaking, corporate engineering, and production (wineries, cellar, cork, bottling). Activities cover all phases of process development, from concepts to bench-scale evaluation, pilot scale-up, and technology transfer to manufacturing.

Regulatory Affairs and Compliance coordinates environmental compliance activities, oversees international market entry requirements, ensures compliance with federal and state laws, regulations and standards and monitors domestic and international sources for changes in the regulatory environment. Regulatory Affairs and Compliance works closely with many winery groups such as operations, winemaking, marketing, legal, and other Gallo entities as well as various regulatory agencies.

Sales representatives make it easier for consumers to select and purchase Gallo products in several different ways:

• Distribution
• Shelf and Cold Box Merchandising
• Display Merchandising
• Retail Advertising/Promotion
• Competitive Pricing
• Restaurant Merchandising Activities

The Sales function is extremely diverse , offering career development in a variety of important roles.

• Sales Representatives
• Distributor Sales
• General Management
• Field Marketing
• Trade Development
• Training/ Recruitment
• Operations
• International Sales
• Senior Level Management

Sales representatives maximize effectiveness in individual markets by serving as business consultants to distributors . As a result, the Sales organization looks for people who possess an "outgoing sales personality" and innate leadership qualities. Other important qualifications include:

• Above Average Intelligence
• Analytical Skills
• Creative Problem Solving
• Sound Business Judgement
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Tough-mindedness
• Tenacity
• High Personal Performance Standards
• Actual Sales Experience (may or may not be required)

Supplier Development within the Finance Department includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Capital Energy and Production Supplies (MRO)
• Corporate Services and Technology
• Packaging and Marketing Services
• Raw Materials

Supplier Development is responsible for evaluation and implementation of organization-wide goods and services procurement programs that result in cooperative and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers, and ensure lowest total winery cost. Each functional area is led by a Group Manager, responsible for the development and direction of strategic plans for multiple product and service commodities. Reporting to the Group Manager are two or more Category (responsible for specific commodities within each group) and Business Analysts, who develop and evaluate cost models.