Marketing 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.  

Marketing Manager – Mumbai, India - Your future position?

As a Marketing Manager for the Personal Care categories, you will develop and share a market, consumer and brand expertise. You will bring a valuable fragrance marketing service to the clients and grow the Givaudan business by identifying and promoting product and fragrance opportunities.

You will manage multi-national projects within various functions (sales, perfumers, evaluation) the Indian Subcontinent but also other regions globally.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs and think beyond to predict the next market theme.

This role is based in Mumbai, India.

In this role, you will report to the Category Director of Personal Care.

In this exciting role, you will:

Market and Consumer Understanding

• Build in-depth market and consumer understanding for assigned product categories

• Research new sources of trend information and analyse new product launch information to understand consumer preferences and trends
• Conduct gap analyses to effectively identify and communicate opportunities for Business Development for given brands, clients or categories

Marketing programs and development,

• Initiate and guide development of new creative marketing programmes and new sensorial presentation techniques to reinforce fragrance messages to address client needs and differentiate Givaudan to be partner of choice
• Create and deliver client presentations, tailoring Givaudan value proposition to specific needs of the client
• Work with Sales and Evaluation to support customer projects and establish appropriate olfactory direction to win briefs
• Assess and identify areas of improvement, collaborate and contribute with other colleagues to implement improvements
• Communicate marketing programmes and messages to all internal commercial and development stakeholders
• Communicate solutions to client challenges & opportunities via executing compelling stories that are built around fragrance, market intelligence, trends and consumer understandings
• Identify white space olfactive / market opportunities that drive competitive advantage
• Develop compelling messaging via brand strategy and creative concept ideation in partnership with Commercial, Evaluation, Insights and Perfumery teams to link client brand concepts to fragrance

You?

Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world? Who thrives being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then come join us – and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes: 

• Post Graduate Degree in Business/ Marketing (or equivalent)8-10 years of experience in industry, in marketing or related function
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with clients, while understanding client strategy, initiatives, priorities and launch processes
• Demonstrates knowledge of fragrance products, trends, key customers, and competitors on a global/regional category level
• Ability to develop and deliver a strategic vision for the future
• Strong ability to analyze consumer data to strengthen consumer awareness and understanding
• Expert understanding of B2B and B2C marketing principles
• Demonstrates competent olfactory skills, can recognize olfactory notes and communicate in fragrance language
• Communication and Presentation Skills Develops and delivers compelling presentations
• Project Management Effectively manages multiple priorities and projects under time/budget constraints
• Has exposure to the innovation process and can apply innovation principles to the fragrance creation process to deliver the next blockbusters based on deep consumer and category insights

Our benefits: 

• Excellent package including yearly bonus
• Health Insurance
• Great career development opportunities

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.