Creative Fragrance 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.
Passion, expertise, and flair are how we describe our fragrance and beauty business. The artistry of our perfumers encompasses a myriad of passionate scented stories for brands everywhere. Our collections of beauty innovations push industry limits by inspiring and empowering customers with tailored products to enhance their wellbeing. We live to perfume life and bring beauty to the world.
Our network of perfumers, fragrance evaluators, marketing and technical experts develop exquisitely scented personal care products that enhance each moment of the day. The best personal care products forge a special relationship with consumers, delivering pleasure and reassurance and functional benefits. They clean and protect, but also inspire confidence and encapsulate different moods. With its unique power to evoke different emotions, fragrance plays a vital role in successful self-care solutions.
Reporting to the Category Director, you will project manage by collaborating with Perfumers and our creative centers. You will interpret marketing knowledge and use your technical expertise to assist customers in developing olfactory strategies to impact our role within the industry. This role is onsite in our Ridgedale Offices located in East Hanover NJ. We offer 1 day from home and flexible working schedules.
- Fragrance Development - Develop olfactory strategy for clients, market, category, and guide Perfumery teams. Manage/execute multiple complex briefs and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines. Define fragrances to be tested and coordinate with Consumer Marketing Insights (CMI) team. Translate CMI results into olfactory guidelines for perfumers. Work with lab on testing product stability. Understand the Best Practices to influence efficiency improvement opportunities.
- Collaboration and Influence - Partner with other regional creative centers to complete project assignments. Conduct customer presentations/interactions. Participate in olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative Development. Develop new fragrances with Perfumers on a proactive basis. Manage fast and efficient selection of fragrances for activation projects from oil or blind.
- Industry Curiosity Marketing - Anticipate market tastes; work with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generation. Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building and sharing. Demonstrate track records of new wins. Build and curate the best-in-class fragrance collection, responding to gap analysis, market needs, market trends and incorporating our technologies.
You?
- University Degree relevant to industry/position
- 7+ years' functional/technical experience in industry
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and complex evaluation projects
- Knowledge of Perfumers' themes and collections
- Ability to dissect a fragrance, offer intuitive and creative ideas within the project's scope
- Broad knowledge of the market dynamics and olfactory trends
- Opportunistic mindset - able to balance speed of response and fragrance quality
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.
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.
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