Givaudan Careers Junior 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 17,000 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 – Consumer products – Your future position ?

As a Marketing Manager, part of the European Creative Center for Consumer Products, you will develop and share a market, consumer and brand expertise on your allocated category. You will bring a valuable fragrance marketing service to the clients and grow the Givaudan business by identifying and promoting product and fragrance opportunities. You will manage multi-national projects within various functions (sales, perfumers, evaluation) spanning mainly Europe but also other regions globally.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs and think beyond to predict the next market theme. In this exciting role, reporting to the   Category Director, you will: 

• Develop an assigned category : you will monitor the category activities (market dynamics, product activity), understand the client brand


• Provide a marketing expertise : in coordination with the Evaluation team you will build an olfactive vision of the assigned category, you will monitor and anticipate the regional and global trends conceptually and olfactively


• Build in-depth market and consumer understanding for assigned product categories


• Produce insightful market and consumer analysis featuring opportunities for internal partners and external customers


• Create and deliver client presentations & creative stories, tailoring Givaudan value proposition to specific client & market needs


• Design marketing programs to address creative team & client needs


• Identify market 'white space' and brainstorm new product directions through concept creation : writing, visuals-collaborating with creative team for synergies with olfactive recommendations


• Initiate and guide new creative marketing programs


• Work with Sales and Evaluation to establish appropriate olfactory direction to create or win briefs

You ?

Are you someone who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then come join us!

Your professional profile includes:

• A degree in marketing education (business school or university)


• Minimum 5 years marketing experience in a fragrance house, FMCG company or experience as a strategic planner or consultant in an advertising agency


• Strong communication and networking skills


• Curious and storytelling strengths


• Creative solution orientation


• Analytical imagination (creative and logic balance)


• Excellent presentation and high analytical skills


• Consumer and customer focus


• English is required (written and oral), French recommended

Our Benefits

• Bonus


• Profit sharing


• Saving plan


• Additional holidays (RTT)

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.