Marketing Manager

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About the Role

We are looking for a Marketing Manager to join our Fabric & Home Care business unit and help shape the future of fragrance-driven consumer experiences across the Middle East & North Africa.

Based in Dubai and reporting directly to the Senior Marketing Manager for Fabric & Home Care, you will combine market intelligence, creative storytelling, category expertise, and client partnership to support our business growth and bring our fragrance innovations to life.

This role centers on building deep regional understanding, translating insights into strategic opportunities, and delivering compelling concepts and client presentations. While your core focus is MENA, you will occasionally support global clients and cross-regional initiatives, giving you exposure to a wider marketing community.

If you thrive in a collaborative, multicultural environment and love connecting consumer insights with creative expression, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact in one of Givaudan's most dynamic regions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Market & Consumer Leadership

• Build in-depth understanding of market, consumer, and category dynamics across Fabric & Home Care.
• Track macro trends, competitive activities, emerging brands, and innovations shaping the category.
• Lead consumer and market analyses to identify gaps, white spaces, and business opportunities.
• Partner with Consumer & Market Insights (CMI) to gather behavioural, attitudinal, and olfactive learnings.
• Synthesize insights into clear strategic recommendations for internal and client teams.

2. Concept Creation & Category Storytelling

• Translate market and consumer insights into engaging concepts, visuals, and fragrance directions.
• Drive the creation of proactive marketing tools, trend stories, and promotional materials.
• Craft compelling and visually rich narratives that connect olfactive directions to consumer emotions and needs.
• Ensure all marketing deliverables harmonize with Givaudan branding and creative guidelines.
• Support technologies, ingredients, and fragrance launches with strong storytelling and category relevance.

3. Client Partnership & Experience Creation

• Create and deliver tailored, high-impact presentations for key clients across the region.
• Lead immersive client experiences—workshops, market immersions, innovation sessions and displays, conceptualizing corporate stands for trade shows and exhibitions while managing agencies during design and fabrication stages
• Collaborate with Sales, Evaluation, and Creation to align on fragrance directions that strengthen our winning strategy in briefs.
• Position Givaudan as a strategic partner by identifying opportunities that differentiate the client's brand.
• Support occasional global client projects, representing MENA consumer and market perspective.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with the Creation, Evaluation, CMI, Sampling, Sales, and Communications teams to deliver unified, high-quality outputs.
• Engage with the global marketing community to share MENA insights and ensure alignment with worldwide initiatives.
• Contribute to internal category knowledge building and support regional and global marketing programs.

5. Project Management & Continuous Improvement

• Manage multiple marketing projects from briefing to execution, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Maintain a high standard of organization, prioritization, and attention to detail across all tasks.
• Continuously seek ways to elevate the quality of concepts, visuals, presentations, and customer experiences.
• Support innovation processes with deep category knowledge and thoughtful marketing recommendations.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
• 5–7+ years of progressive experience in B2B/B2C marketing, ideally within fragrances, consumer goods, ingredients, or related industries.
• Strong understanding of MENA markets and consumers, with an ability to translate insights into meaningful ideas.
• Proven experience developing and delivering high-impact presentations and storytelling materials.
• Comfort working with fragrance language, olfactory families, and sensorial communication (training can be provided).
• Skilled in project and stakeholder management, working seamlessly across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English; Arabic or French is an advantage.
• Passionate, curious, creative, and comfortable working in a multicultural environment.
• Willing to travel within MENA for client meetings, workshops, and market visits.

What We Offer

• A creative, collaborative environment that encourages innovation and personal growth.
• Opportunities to learn, develop, and expand your expertise across regions and categories.
• Exposure to global clients and participation in worldwide marketing initiatives.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package, including performance incentives.
• The chance to shape the future of fragrance experiences across a region rich in cultural diversity and consumer vibrancy.

If you're inspired by fragrances, energized by consumer insights, and passionate about creating meaningful brand experiences, we'd love to hear from you.

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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.