Marketing & Innovation Internship

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.

Marketing & Innovation Internship – F/H

Would you like to discover the world of a fragrance house? For mass consumer brands, the teams at our European Creation Center in Argenteuil develop fragrances for Beauty, Fabric Care, and Home Care products.

We offer you the opportunity to complete your internship within the Europe Innovation team, a dynamic and multidisciplinary team (Marketing & Design) whose missions are to:

●    Embrace an innovation mindset by creating and organising creative fragrance-focused events, brainstorms, trends analysis, and other cross-functional team projects.
●    Globally coordinate on our annual trends program.
●    Partner with teams to explore and identify new themes, technologies, and methodologies that bring value to our fragrances.
●    Contribute to Givaudan’s Excellence in Creation and Innovation.
In this exciting internship, you will contribute to various missions within the team by supporting daily project management across several pillars:

EXPLORATION
●    On a given topic, research and synthesize consumer insights, trends, and market research available internally or externally.
●    Facilitate brainstorming sessions using ideation techniques – design thinking, gamification, etc.
●    Test innovative solutions proposed by other departments – Digital Innovation, etc.

ACTIVATION
●    Contribute with ideas for events – Inspiration sessions, workshops, etc.
●    Support events organization – facilitation, teaser preparation, etc.
●    Prepare digital and printed graphic collaterals for events and innovation projects (presentations, printed supports).
●    Contribute to the crafting and hands-on preparation of materials for workshops, prototypes, and creative experiences.

You may also take on the role of project manager for specific assignments depending on the team’s needs and your interests. We are open to your ideas!

About You
Are you looking to complete your internship in a company that promotes creativity and teamwork? Would you like to collaborate and learn with a team that is both highly skilled and passionate about their work? Then join us and touch the emotions of the world around you!

Your Profile
●    Business school or University, Master’s degree in Marketing, Business Management, or a similar field, or a background in Communication or Art & Design (Design School, Ecole Supérieure du Parfum, ISIPCA, etc.)
●    A plus: previous internship experience in consumer goods products, fragrances or creative advertising agencies (research department, creative agency, trend bureau, strategic planning team, creation studio, marketing development, etc.)
●    A rigorous and curious personality with strong analytical and synthesis skills
●    Creative, with a sensitivity to design
●    International exposure or multicultural experience (studies, travel, or living abroad) is highly valued
●    Strong interest in fragrance
●    Fluent English (written and spoken) 
●    Fluency in French is a plus, but not mandatory

 Duration: 6 months

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.