How you will Contribute
Innovation
- Ideation - Stimulate the participation of the IFF community in finding recent consumer solutions and development processes.
- CI strategy - Define what to learn from consumers to gain competitive advantage and build a value proposition.
- Develop and implement innovation strategies that bring competitive product solutions to win business and position IFF as the innovation leader.
- Connect market, customer and consumer needs to identify and trigger business opportunities and provide recommendations that drive business results.
- Following the category strategy write precise briefings to R D.
Project management
- Partner with internal customers and stakeholders to ensure fragrance strategies align to overall business objectives.
- Consistently drive process, discipline and effective execution to bring the desired speed to market.
- Monitor results and have the agility to change the course of a project when needed.
- Good understanding of the big picture and utilize this knowledge to define and establish competitive solutions or strategies.
- Maintain regional or global visibility, both internally and externally.
- Fragrance Trouble shooting and identify technical challenges.
Knowledge Management
- Support the principles of the learning organization.
- Develop deep understanding of market, consumer and customer needs aligned with innovation and project needs.
- Work in close collaboration with Consumer Insight team to generate key insights relevant for customer and internal teams.
People Management
- Mentor multi-disciplinary talent.
- Support project team members in their development.
What you will need to be successful
- Master s or Bachelor s degree in Chemistry, Fragrance, Marketing, Business or any other relevant discipline.
- Minimum 8-10 years relevant experience in an international environment.
- Excellent Olfactive communication skills which supports the overall creative process - discriminate, describe (association) and