Consumer Market Insights Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, 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 the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity 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.

In our Fragrance and Beauty division, we bring together creativity and science for consumer products that are all connected through a powerful web of technical capabilities. By combining our inventiveness and insights with the latest technologies, and constantly challenging ourselves to push boundaries and explore new ideas, we help our diverse customers to develop refreshing, reliable and recognizable products that brighten up everyday moments. As consumer needs are constantly evolving, our imagination comes together to bring fresh new fragrant ideas for every market. We are endlessly fascinated by the relationship people have with scent, and we are constantly carrying out in-depth research that enables us to identify emerging trends and present exciting new opportunities to our customers.

Reporting to a Category Director, and being onsite in our East Hanover New Jersey Creative Center, you will communicate market research projects and build consumer understanding.. As a CMI Manager in our Home and Fabric Fragrance division, this individual contributor roles will have you providing competitive-edge market analysis to support development and sales goals in what is a creative and sophisticated industry to build your market analysis and consumer knowledge. You will be a category expert and have the opportunity to share your knowledge with our clients. It could well be your perfect opportunity if you have a true passion for fragrances and are energized by drawing meaningful conclusions from large data sets. 

• Lead Research -  Lead market research for regional or cross regional projects by applying the appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to meet the project objectives. Support sales and development teams as the market research expert in direct contact with clients; discuss and review CMI strategies, methodologies, and results.

• Business Partner - Be a CMI (Consumer Marketing Insights) Business Partner for internal colleagues, working on Home and Fabric Care projects throughout the fragrance development cycle, providing in-depth interpretation of results to guide fragrance development, and building rationale to support our submissions. Work with category teams to identify gaps in knowledge and to develop and test hypotheses relating to insights into consumer behavior, to provide new ideas to feed the development process.

• Project Management - Full management of Home and Fabric Care CMI projects including: study design, cost management and negotiations with agencies, quality checks, hands-on data analysis (including statistical testing), insight development, and results presentations. Ensure CMI data is stored centrally and accessible for future reference. Participation in the digital agenda.

You? 

• University Degree  (Marketing, Data Analysis, Statistic, Science) Advanced Degree Helpful
• 7+ years of experience in market research
• Proficiency in using common PC applications (MS Excel essential), including data analysis software, and in programming study designs within survey platforms
• Understanding of statistics - in-depth understanding of inferential and multivariate statistics and experimental design.
• Demonstrate competent knowledge and use of qualitative and quantitative methodologies (protocols, designs, questionnaires)  
• Expertise in analyzing large datasets and drawing strategic conclusions and possible effects
• Familiar with data reduction, consumer segmentation, and driver analysis techniques to interrogate data from different perspectives, to develop hypotheses for fragrance development and arguments to support submissions
• Proficient in use of statistical software for analysis of research data
• Experience working in a collaborative environment across teams/departments

Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, and a high matching 401k

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
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Every essence of you enriches our world.
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