Creative Fragrance Manager-Personal Care

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 17,000 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 Scope: 
• Personal Care Category.
• Categories Responsible: Bar Soaps, Shower Gel Liquids, Haircare, Skincare , Excludes FF 

• Develop and implement olfactory strategies tailored to clients, markets, and categories, providing clear guidance to Perfumery teams.
• Manage and execute multiple complex briefs, developing or selecting fragrances while ensuring collaboration with commercial, marketing and consumer insights teams.
• Collaborate with regional Creative Centers, as needed, to successfully deliver projects.
• Define the fragrances to be tested and coordinate evaluation activities with the consumer Insights team.
• Analyze CMI results and translate them into actionable olfactory guidelines for perfumers
• Maintain a broad knowledge of market dynamics, consumer preferences, and emerging olfactory trends for personal care category.
• Engage effectively with consumers and clients to discuss briefs, technical matters and other project related topics.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of consumer behaviors within the assigned categories.
• Lead large, complex projects from inception to completion, ensuring creative excellence and timely delivery.

You?

Are you a curious and driven fragrance expert ready to take on a new challenge? Are you passionate about fine fragrances, creativity, consumer understanding, and innovation? Then this role may be for you.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years to 15 years of experience in fragrance evaluation, ideally with strong exposure to Personal Care. 
• Strong olfactory expertise, paired with functional knowledge of fragrance development processes.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with a strong sense of ownership and ability to work autonomously.
• Experience managing complex projects and working with global or regional network.
• Good technical knowledge of fragrance behaviour in various Fine Fragrance/ Personal Care/ Air Care applications (stability, base interactions, compliance).
• A proactive, creative mindset with the ability to drive innovation and anticipate market preferences.
• Good communication and presentation skills to engage internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven ability to translate consumer data into meaningful fragrance directions.
• Cultural sensitivity and experience working in multicultural, cross-functional environments.

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• At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
• We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.