Business Unit Director - Savoury

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, 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. 
In Singapore, you’ll be at the centre of every innovation, creation and solution available to the entire Asia-pacific region. Working with our research, creation and production units, as well as our renowned perfumery school, you’ll make us a greater force for good. Every day, your passion, your creativity, and your expertise 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:

Leads all activities for the region for the defined segment, including the development and execution of segment strategies, product innovation plans and initiatives in order to ensure Givaudan's leading position within the relevant segment according to overall business objectives and regional innovation strategy.

Key expectations include:

Regional Segment Management, Strategy Development, Sales Collaboration, and Innovation and Commercialization Oversight

• Strategic Leadership: Lead the development and execution of the regional strategy for defined segments, supporting the Regional Innovation Head and ensuring alignment with global initiatives.
• Opportunity Identification & development: Identify market gaps and business opportunities for the segment inpartnership with the Data Analytics team and contributing to the regional/global innovation agenda.
• Innovation agenda leadership : Own the overall product strategy and innovation agenda  to deliver growth in the relevant segment (s), and lead the delivery of the roadmap in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Customer Engagement & Sales collaboration - Partner with sales to direct & excute marketing efforts to target customers - to deploy and support adoption of differentiating technologies and initiatives in alignment with ADPs.
• Consumer & Sensory Insights : Oversee the segment CSI needs and design and execution of research programs leading to actionable insights feeding the innovation initiatives.
• People Leadership Focus : 
      - Lead, manage and develop the team of Product Marketing Managers and CSI managers, fostering their growth and ensuring effective collaboration.
      - Key member of RILT (RI Leadership team) to drive the shared ambition of the RI team
• Thought Leadership :  Lead external collaborations and partnerships in the Region to demonstrate Industry thought leadership (CRI, Nurasa, AAK, Cargill etc)

Skills:

• Accountability
• Analytical skills
• Budget management
• Business mindset
• Communication skills with high-profile audiences
• Creative thinking
• Critical thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Influencing skills
• Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
• Ideation
• Leadership skills
• Marketing communications knowledge
• Strategic thinking
• Teamwork
• Written and verbal communication skills

Requriements:

• Higher Education (Bachelors or Masters Degree) in a business related field or relevant technical field
• 15+ years of experience in a relevant area; people management a plus

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.