Visual & Botanical Ingredients Category Manager f/m/d

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. 

As a Category Manager for our Active Beauty division, you will drive the portfolio of visual and botanical ingredients and manage the portfolio with your different stakeholders. You will contribute to the growth of the business by leading product customization projects for customers, and by training and supporting sales and distributors. You will also identify new business opportunities for the category.

Reporting to our Head of Specialties, you will:

• Be the subject matter expert for the market of the Visuals and Botanicals  (extracts and oils) category, through competition survey, analysis of market trends and review of customers’ demands.
• Coordinate the custom developments and the global launches of new Visuals, in collaboration with the appropriate stakeholders (Head of Specialties, Operations, RAPS, Pricing, Sales, Communication, …).
• Optimize the Active Beauty Visuals and Botanicals portfolio, by managing the number of references (additions, deletions) and evolving the existing references to meet the regulatory evolutions.
• Maintain and improve the quality of Botanicals portfolio to answer customers’ expectations in terms of traceability, quality, sustainability with the support of procurement, agronomist and sustainability stakeholders
• Actively contribute to the business growth of the Visuals and Botanicals category (turnover and profitability):
  • Promote the Visuals and Botanicals portfolio, preparing marketing and technical materials and delivering training and communication to distributors and sales team, strengthening the awareness on these ingredients and on our capabilities.
  • Support regional sales, key account managers and distributors with marketing, scientific and technical information relating to the category as required and visiting customers
• Ensure Category Marketing activity is consistent with Active Beauty branding and Positioning as well as the Givaudan brand

You will manage a laboratory manager.

The role can be based in our Volketswill (CH) or Argenteuil (FR) office.

You?

• Bachelor's degree; in scientific or technical field
• 5 + years experience in B2B business/marketing and knowledge of B2C marketing
• Experience in cosmetic ingredients or personal care market
• Experience working in a matrix environment
• Experience in managing people in a laboratory

Our benefits:

• Annual paid leave
• Variable pension fund contribution
• Sport and leisure club
• Company shop
• Public transportation support

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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 working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.