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.  

Job Purpose

Develop, create and validate fragrances as a part of regional or global projects, with clear understanding of customer needs, preferences and requirements, in order to drive business value and ensure successful completion of external projects, according to Fragrance Evaluation objectives.

Core Responsibilities

Evaluation Projects

• Responsible for briefs relating to a category/country/region or customer under CFD supervision.
• Follow and understand the Best practices.
• Contribute to winning briefs by selecting suitable fragrances to meet customer needs.
• Manage the collection and ensure it alignment with business needs.
• Write fragrance descriptions linked to marketing trends.
• Participate in proactive development projects.
• Collaborate directly with Perfumers to develop fragrance themes.
• Manage regional projects and participate in global projects related to Evaluation process when needed

Cross-functional Cooperation

• Interact & collaborate with sales/CMI/MKT colleagues throughout the project process in order to ensure meeting of customer requirements
• Collaborate with relevant marketing colleagues for trends information and internal and client presentations

Activation and Gallery

• Manage the best in class fragrance collection, responding to gap analysis, market needs, market trends and incorporating Givaudan technologies
• Undertake fast and efficient selection of fragrances for activation projects from oil or blind

Your profile:

Professional experience

• University Degree or equivalent
• 5-6 years' functional/technical experience in industry
• Demonstrated proficiency in using common PC applications
• Competent olfactory ability and knowledge
• Verbal and written command of English
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
• Effective interaction with teams
• Ability to create and make presentations for their submissions

Technical Skills:

Evaluation/Application Skills

• Knowledge of Givaudan evaluation/application and research methodologies, principles, protocols, and documentation

Industry / Market Knowledge

• Understanding of industry and sales landscape for country, segment, category, or specific geographic area, including competitors and regulatory guidelines
• Knowledge of fragrance products, general market dynamics and trends
• Global market knowledge

Customer Knowledge/Relationship

• Ability to build knowledge of customers' products and processes

Consumer Understanding

• Basic knowledge of CMI testing protocols and procedures
• Olfactory consumer understanding in given category fragrance category

Givaudan Systems

• Ability to apply FragranceLand, IBIS, Colibri and other systems to effectively answer customer briefs
• 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
• Ability to effectively lead all required functional steps in the brief handling processes
• Ability to interface with clients as needed (Senior Evaluator), with emphasis on customer intimacy & mutual respect

Activation

• Building cross category knowledge
• Ability to manage a very high number of projects at the same time
• Ability to select and submit from oil or blind for activation projects
• At ease with digital solutions
• Opportunistic mindset - able to balance speed of response and fragrance quality

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.