Senior Creative Fragrance Manager -Personal Care

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 16,800 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.  

As a Creative Fragrance Manager within the Personal Care team, you will provide fragrance winners to Sales by managing briefs, evaluating and selecting successful fragrances according to priorities set by the Creative Fragrance Team Director.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, deliver value and are skilled at fostering strong relationships.

In this exciting role you will:

Projects

• Manage internal resources according to project priority by immediate superior
• Set up action plan/time table for each brief
• Set general fragrance directions, organise evaluation sessions, evaluate candidates and provide feedback to perfumers
• Coordinate with other departments specific needs on briefs
• Ensure feedback to sales

Creation

• Motivate and stimulate perfumers to achieve optimum creation
• Generate confidence
• Investigate potentially promising olfactive routes with perfumers
• Participate to the elaboration of the fragrance Library
• Develop and update a good olfactive knowledge of significant marketing brands 
• Feed marketing with olfactive judgement of strategic marketing products and be ready to give olfactive presentations to clients

Environmental links

• Develop a better understanding of consumer attitudes thanks to market research
• Develop a good understanding of client’s culture thanks to marketing
• Feed the affiliates regularly with the best themes created in order to keep them up to date with the collection.

You?

Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world? Who thrives 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:

• Advanced degree in perfumery with minimum 9 years experience in the industry 
• Good knowledge of the industry and the customers
• Good knowledge of naturality aspects
• Passion for perfume and olfaction
• Excellent communication skills, diplomacy, tenacity, curiosity, resilience, creativity, pro-activity, storytelling (internal and customers) and team spirit
• Ability to build customer intimacy
• Excellent organisation skills, and ability to handle several projects at once
• Fluent in English

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.