Creative Fragrance Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, 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. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Creative Fragrance Manager – Argenteuil, France – Your future position?

As a Creative Fragrance Manager within the Air Care category, you will actively collaborate with Perfumers and development teams on a global/cross regional level.

You will have a strategic view to manage successfully your client/brand portfolio in strong partnership with our sales teams.

Thanks to your market knowledge and technical expertise, you will support customers in developing successful olfactive strategies, according to business principles and best practices.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, deliver value and are skilled at fostering strong relationships.

Reporting to the Home Care Category Director, in this exciting role you will: 

Fragrance Development

• Develop olfactive strategies for clients, market, category and guide Perfumery teams accordingly
• Manage/execute multiple complex briefs and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines following Givaudan best practices
• Liaise with other regional creative centers, as necessary, to complete project assignments
• Define fragrances to be tested and coordinate with CMI
• Translate CMI results into olfactive guidelines for Perfumers
• Contribute in olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative developments
• Develop new fragrances with Perfumers on a pro-active basis
• Work with labs on resolving technical issues

Industry & Marketing

• Anticipate market tastes; work closely with marketing colleagues on proactive concepts
• Write olfactive summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building & sharing
• Conduct customer presentations/interactions
• Demonstrate consistent track records of new wins

You ?

Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world? Who thrives being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then come join us – and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• University Degree or equivalent, advanced University degree in related field is a plus
• 7 to 10 years of a functional / technical experience in the fragrance industry
• Fluent in English
• Ability to manage multiple and complex evaluation projects
• Ability to offer intuitive and creative ideas within the project's scope and guide the perfumers in their creations
• Customer Knowledge/Relationship as ability to effectively interact with customers/clients on briefs, technical matters and other issues, ability to take ownership of a brand & customer relations
• Consumer Understanding skills as being abreast of CMI Tools, protocols, practices and a broad understanding of consumers

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.