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

Role:Creative Fragrance Manager

Job Purpose

Actively cooperate with Perfumers and creative centers, as well as interpret marketing knowledge and technical expertise, in order to assist customers in developing successful olfactory strategies, according to business principles and best practices.

Core Responsibilities

Fragrance Development

• Develop olfactory strategy 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
• Liaise with other regional creative centers, as necessary, to complete project assignments
• Define fragrances to be tested and coordinate with CMR
• Translate CMR results into olfactory guidelines for perfumers
• Participate in olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative development
• Develop new fragrances with perfumers on a pro-active basis
• Work with lab on testing product stability
• Follow and understand the Best Practices (JANA)

Industry&Marketing

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

Academic Background

• University Degree or equivalent
• Advanced University degree in related field is a plus
• Fluent in English 

Professional experience

• Minimum 7+ years' functional/technical experience in industry
• Demonstrated:
  • Proficiency in using common PC applications
  • Ability to manage multiple and complex evaluation projects 

Technical Skills

Evaluation/Application Skills

• Knowledge of perfumers' themes and collections
• Knowledge of one or more product category and product design principles
• Ability to dissect a fragrance, offer intuitive and creative ideas within the project's scope

Industry/Market Knowledge

• Expert knowledge of fragrance products and key customers
• Broad knowledge of the market dynamics and olfactory trends
• Ability to predict market acceptance

Customer Knowledge/Relationship

• 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

• Broad understanding of consumers within designated category(ies)

Project Management

• Ability to effectively lead large projects 

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.