Junior Evaluator - Gallery

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A Junior Evaluator and an important member of our winning Fragrance Consumer Products Development team for the South Asia region, and based in our Regional Creative Centre in Mumbai - Could this be your future position?

Our senses step into gear from the moment we wake up in the morning until we turn in for the night. The consumer grooming and cleaning regimen intersects with Consumer Products (Personal care, Home & Air care, Fabric care, Oral care), Fine Fragrances (Perfumes & Luxury scents), and Active Beauty products with fragrance at the core of every experience. Givaudan’s fragrance products are, more often than not, responsible for carrying you through the olfactive journey of your day.

Givaudan's fragrance teams are present in every region of the world. Years of experience have resulted in a natural knowledge of consumer preferences depending on the segment and geographical location. Our fragrance teams work together to create the success that Givaudan excels at and bring together multiple skills - Sales, Creation and Evaluation, Consumer & Market Insights, Marketing, Pricing, Compounding, Application, Library, Customer Relations, Operations/     Production, QC, etc. We have a selection of important competencies present in each region.

Our Fragrance Evaluator’s are olfactive development specialists whose primary goal is to guide perfumers in the fragrance development process. To do so, Evaluator’s have a strategic view and analyse current olfactive trends, forecast future trends, and assess consumer preferences.

Due to increasing business activity and to further build upon our continued success in the region, we are recruiting for a ‘Junior Evaluator’ to be based in our South Asia Regional Creative Centre in Mumbai and reporting to the Fragrance & Beauty Gallery Director for South Asia. As a critical member of our Fragrance & Beauty Consumer Products Gallery (Library) and Evaluation team for South Asia, you will guide the fragrance development process alongside Account Managers, Perfumers, Marketing, Research, and Laboratory experts.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs and can go beyond. 

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for - 

Fragrance Development:
• Develop the olfactory strategy for customers, markets, and categories and guide the Perfumery teams. 
• Manage multiple complex briefs from customers and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines.
• Collaborate with other regional creative centres to complete project assignments.
• Define fragrances to be tested and coordinate with the Consumer and Market Insights (CMI) team.
• Translate CMI results into olfactory guidelines for Perfumers.
• Contribute to the olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative development.
• Develop new fragrances with Perfumers on a proactive basis.
• Work with the labs to test product stability.

Positioning and Marketing: 
• Anticipate market tastes and work with marketing colleagues to proactively work on fragrance concepts. 
• Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customers for knowledge-building and sharing.
• Conduct customer presentations/interactions.
• Write fragrance descriptions linked to marketing trends.

Project Management: 
• Manage the project pipeline of customer briefs and other internal or proactive programmes. 
• Ensure efficient execution of projects with a focus on improving the win rate, customer relationship, and speed of response.

• Manage various tools to work on projects
• Gap analysis and add new fragrance ideas
 
Develop relationships with customers:
• Help win briefs by selecting suitable fragrances to meet customer needs.
• Participate in meeting customers and the preparation for customer visits.
• Provide the Sales/Key Accounts team with inputs for their account development plans.

Adminstration:

• Organise the oil and illustrations of new fragrance entries in the Gallery
• Manage the fragrance database 
• Coordinate and support on internal and external exhibitions

You?

Your professional profile includes:

• A bachelor's or university degree in a relevant discipline. 
• Good knowledge and passion for the world of fragrances
• 3+ years of relevant experience in Fragrance development/evaluation for any category and experience in developing winning fragrances for local, regional, or international customers. 
• Consumer understanding: Has experience with market insights, protocols, and practices and a broad knowledge of the consumer landscape in India. 
• A team player and comfortable with cultural diversity.
• Good project management skills. 

Our benefits -

• Attractive package with benefits and performance bonus. 
• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• A creative team environment that will inspire you.

*LI-Y

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.