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Salary: Competitive Salary
Job Type: Full time
Experience: Senior Level
Givaudan SA
Creative Fragrance Manager Maghreb West Africa (Remote)
Creative Fragrance Manager Maghreb West Africa | Givaudan SA |Morocco
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Creative Fragrance Manager Maghreb West Africa | Givaudan SA | Morocco
Step into our world of creativity and joy!
Creative Fragrance Manager – Maghreb & West Africa
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.
Creative Fragrance Manager – Maghreb and West Africa – Your future position?
Every discovery you make, shapes joyful memories for millions.
We are recruiting for a Creative Fragrance Manager (CFM) with cross category experience, to lead a small Evaluation team, based in Morocco, offering an excellent opportunity for both your personal and professional development.
Our CFM’s 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, CFM’s understand the market and the consumer’s behaviour and preferences, having a strategic view to analyse current olfactive trends, while forecasting future ones.
The role will focus on the Local customers in Maghreb and West Africa, and 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 geographies.
The Creative Fragrance manager will report to the Creative Centre Director.
In this exciting role, you will:
Fragrance development
- Develop olfactory strategy for clients, market, category and guide Perfumery teams accordingly
- Manage/execute multiple complex briefs and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines
- Liaise with other regional creative centres, as necessary, to complete project assignments
- Define fragrances to be tested and coordinate with CMI
- Translate CMI results into olfactory guidelines for perfumers
- Participate in olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative Development
- Develop new fragrances with Perfumers on a pro-active basis
- Work with lab on testing product stability
- Follow and understand the Best Practices and efficiency improvement opportunities
Industry and Marketing
- Anticipate market tastes; work closely with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generation
- Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building & sharing
- Conduct customer presentations/interactions
- Demonstrate consistent track records of new wins
Activation and Gallery
- Build and curate the best in class fragrance collection, responding to gap analysis, market needs, market trends and
- incorporating Givaudan technologies
- Manage fast and efficient selection of fragrances for activation projects from oil or blind
You?
Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world? Who thrives being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then come join us – and impact your world.
Your professional profile includes:
- Advanced degree in perfumery
- 7+ years’ experience in fragrance evaluation or similar role
- Knowledge of the industry and the customers
- Good knowledge of naturality aspects
- Passion for perfume and olfaction
- Excellent communication skills (as well as diplomacy, tenacity, curiosity, resilience, creativity, proactivity, storytelling)
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Fluency in French, Arabic and English
Our benefits
- Great compensation package including bonus
- International working environment
- Career development opportunities
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.
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.
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.
Remote working: Hybrid
