Regional Consumer Insights Manager, Europe

at  International Flavors Fragrances

Job Summary
IFF is a leading creator of flavors and fragrances used in a wide variety of consumer products and packaged goods. Consumers experience these unique scents and tastes in fine fragrances and beauty care, detergents, and household goods, as well as beverages, confectionary and food products. The Company leverages its competitive advantages of brand understanding and consumer insight combined with its focus on R&D and innovation, to provide customers with differentiated product offerings. IFF is a member of the S&P 500 Index. We have sales, manufacturing, and creative facilities in over 30 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit our website at www.iff.com.
This is an exciting opportunity to work for one of the world’s best flavor/ingredient companies uncovering new opportunities for growth and innovation fueled by consumer understanding as a Regional Consumer Insights Manager, Europe.

As a Regional Consumer Insights Manager, you will be:

• Managing, assessing, designing, executing, analyzing and reporting on the curation and/or discovery of the consumer voice through primary/secondary consumer research, uncovering and activating actionable insights, identifying new opportunities, unlocking growth and driving strategic direction/innovation.
• Delivering deep consumer understanding fueling strategic category growth, supporting regional initiatives and customer opportunities using insights that differentiate IFF as a thought leader and a partner of choice.
• Working in close collaboration with a dedicated Consumer Intelligence team and side by side with category and innovation colleagues, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that actionable insight is available and being leveraged for strategic decision making and innovation road mapping.
• Reporting to the Global Consumer Intelligence Director, you’ll foster an insight-led culture and help capture new business opportunities for the European region. You’ll be responsible for guiding the creation of category growth strategies with consumer insight and supporting category initiatives with quality research.
• Spending your time designing primary research using mixed methods (traditional & digital), curating existing research, running insight activation sessions and communicating thought leadership that differentiates IFF in the marketplace. You’ll use traditional and digital consumer research methods, deliberate creative thinking processes, design thinking principles and in-person and virtual facilitation best practice.
• We are looking for an agile and passionate team member that likes the variety of working across multiple food and beverage categories with diverse project objectives, and enjoys contributing as part of a cross-functional team.
• Some travel required (10%)

Who you are:

• You hold a BA Degree in Sensory/Consumer Insight, Marketing, Market Research, Human Sciences, and/or Psychology. Master’s degree preferred.
• You have 7-10 years of industry experience in consumer science, consumer insight, or sensory & consumer insight. This role requires a high level of autonomy and entrepreneurship, and a high level of professionalism to manage, inform and influence diverse stakeholders, understand the complexities of the business and take a lead to integrate research into the business decision-making process.
• Proficient in human & consumer research methods, data analysis & interpretation, insight crafting, socialization and activation, data storytelling, and presentation and facilitation skills
• Creative Problem Solving/Design Thinking/Facilitation certifications preferred

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
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