Fragrance Gallery Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. 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. Dive into varied, flexi-ble, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, 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. 

Purpose

Actively build and manage a best in class Fragrance Gallery in order to win projects from selection every time it’s possible.

Core Responsibilities

Gallery Content Management

• Own & facilitate Pre-validation, Validation, and Revalidation process on a monthly basis and track CFM compliance
• Own & facilitate Category Gap Analysis – and collaborate with Category Leads in building the most efficient and effective Gallery
• Maintain and clean Gallery information (olf desc, motive of creation, collection, reservation)       

Gallery KPI Reporting and Analysis

• Maintain report on monthly Gallery pre-validation/validation/refresh activity with conclusions/observations that identify areas of issue, improvement, under usage, etc.
• Support the Development management in evaluating the KPI data and supporting the implementation of work programs within this that focus on driving efficiency within the Development organization.

Gallery Power user

• Train all new Givaudan employees on the Gallery Tool
• Survey ‘community’ for use and suggestions for continuous improvements for the Gallery Tool
• Participate in all IT activities to improve or modified current tool

Promotion

• Devise ways to promote outside of collections – with our Evaluation and Sales team
• Promote/Support ‘Special’ perfumes or collection
• Find ways within and across the categories to highlight and share best new themes (CMI or Successes) in the library

Industry & Marketing

• Anticipate market tastes; work closely with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generation.

Academic Background

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

Professional Experience

• Minimum 2 years´ functional / technical experience in industry
• Demonstrate:
  • 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.
• Advanced product and technical knowledge (innovations, manufacturing, stability, etc.).

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

Givaudan Systems

• Ability to apply Fragrance Land, IBIS, Colibri and other systems to effectively follow the Gallery needs and activity
• Understanding of Givaudan internal processes at local and regional level; acknowledging own responsibilities into broader goals

Project Management

• Good understanding of Givaudan's brief process and functional interfaces
• Highly organized, able to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Be a team player and work well with different stakeholders

Givaudan Competencies

• Demonstrates self-awareness
• Drives results
• Decision quality
• Nimble learning
• Customer focus
• Courage
• Drives engagement
• Values difference
• Building effective teams
• Communicates Effectively
• Business Insights
• Manages Complexity

Preference will be given to EE Candidates

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.  Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities.  Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity.  We also have a safe work environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.