Creative Fragrance Manager

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:Creative Fragrance Manager (m/f/d) - Your future role?Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, 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 France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.Every discovery you make, shapes joyful memories for millions.We are recruiting for a Creative Fragrance Manager (CFM) for the Fabric Care category, to be based in Argenteuil (Paris), offering an excellent opportunity for both your personal and professional development.Our CFMs are fragrance development specialists whose primary goal is to successfully deliver fragrances to our customers, that delights the consumers in the region. To do so, CFMs understand the market and the consumers behaviour and preferences, having a strategic view to analyse current olfactive trends, while forecasting future ones.In this role, you will be responsible for the fragrance development activities, alongside Account Managers (Sales), Marketing, Consumer Market Research, and Laboratory experts. You will need to ensure quick turnaround response to customers' briefs utilizing existing systems and set up of Givaudan. In addition, you will need to manage and develop evaluators in the team handling specific categories or geographiesThe Creative Fragrance manager will report to the Creative Fragrance Team Director.In this exciting role you will:Develop olfactory strategy for clients, market, category and guide Perfumery teams accordinglyManage/execute multiple complex briefs and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelinesLiaise with other regional creative centres, as necessary, to complete project assignmentsDefine fragrances to be tested and coordinate with CMITranslate CMI results into olfactory guidelines for perfumersParticipate in olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative developmentDevelop new fragrances with Perfumers on a pro-active basisWork with lab on testing product stabilityFollow and understand the Best Practices and efficiency improvement opportunitiesIndustry and MarketingAnticipate market tastes; work closely with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generationWrite olfactory summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building and sharingConduct customer presentations/interactionsDemonstrate consistent track records of new winsActivation and GalleryBuild and curate the best in class fragrance collection, responding to gap analysis, market needs, market trends, and incorporating Givaudan technologiesManage fast and efficient selection of fragrances for activation projects from oil or blindYou?Advanced degree in perfumery or related field5+ years' experience in fragrance evaluationExpert knowledge of fragrance products and key customersPassion for perfume and olfactionAbility to effectively interact with customers/clients on briefs, technical matters and other issuesAbility to effectively lead large projectsFluency in English; French recommended, Spanish a plusHealth insuranceBonusAnnual paid leave (40 days)Saving planCSE discounts and offersCanteenAt 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr