Apprenticeship - Category manager assistant - Active Beauty Specialties

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. 
In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Within the Givaudan Active Beauty Marketing team, in the Specialties, Visuals & Botanicals segment, you will actively contribute to ongoing projects and help maintain and update key tools and data supporting portfolio development. This apprenticeship offers an excellent opportunity to combine science, marketing, and strategy within the exciting world of cosmetics.

Main Responsibilities:

Marketing tools and market analysis
• Review and update marketing materials dedicated to the Specialties segment (presentations, product sheets, sales tools, etc.).
• Conduct market and competitive analyses and monitoring.
• Perform portfolio analyses (gap analysis).

Technical support and innovation
• Support the Visuals Development Laboratory in sourcing raw materials that meet new regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to the documentation and follow-up of technical projects related to product innovation.

Contribution to customer projects
• Provide support to commercial and technical teams on customer projects.
• Participate in the creation of arguments and presentations that highlight our solutions.

Profile:

• Master’s student in Chemistry or a scientific field, with a strong interest in marketing, strategy, and business.
• Passionate about the world of beauty, the cosmetics industry, and its innovation challenges.
• Strong analytical and IT skills (Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Excellent command of English, both spoken and written.
• Proactive, autonomous, curious, and eager to learn.
• Rigorous, organized, detail-oriented, and committed to high-quality work.
• Enjoy solving problems, persevere when faced with challenges, and can manage projects in a structured way.

Duration: 1 year – Starting September 2026
Location: Argenteuil

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.