Marketing Manager

at  Givaudan

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Marketing Manager
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.

MARKETING MANAGER – SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA - YOUR FUTURE POSITION?

Givaudan is seeking a Marketing Manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Consumer Products Development team to join the global leader in Fragrance & Beauty. With a rich history of creating emotionally resonant scents, we enhance lives through innovative fragrances across Consumer Products, Fine Fragrance (Perfumes & Luxury scents), and Active Beauty.
In this role, you will support the development and success of our Personal Care, Home & Air Care, and Fabric Care categories in vibrant SSA markets, including South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Malawi. You will leverage your B2B marketing expertise and knowledge of local markets to provide consumer insights, generate key learnings, and identify new business opportunities.
Your responsibilities will include creating engaging customer presentations, trend identification, and concept ideation, all while fostering strong relationships with our diverse customer base, which includes local, regional, and international profiles. If you have a passion for fragrance and consumer products, a knack for exceeding customer expectations, and a desire to stay ahead of market trends, this could be your perfect opportunity.

FRAGRANCE KNOWLEDGE:

• Write descriptions for fragrance launches and visuals, collaborating with the creative team.
• Recognize olfactory notes and communicate effectively in fragrance terminology.
• Understand consumer perceptions of olfactive directions to build fitting concepts or product ideas.

Your professional profile includes:

• Tertiary qualification: Preferably a Bachelor’s or University degree in Marketing, Communication, Journalism, Media, Copy Writing, or related field
• 5+ years of relevant and progressive experience in the B2B marketing space. Preference for candidates from the Fragrance, Cosmetics, Perfumes, Ingredients, and Chemicals sectors or exposure to B2B marketing for other relevant industries with a sensory element involved in the products or solutions on offer.
• A good understanding or mix of experience in B2C marketing will be advantageous.
• Excellent presentation and project management skills.
• A team player and comfortable with diversity.
• Excellent oral and written proficiency in the English language.
• Able to travel within the SSA region for customer visits and consumer market monitoring when required (~10% of the time)