Creative Fragrance Manager

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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.

Are you a self-starter, who excels in leading complex cross regional or global projects, loves fragrances, loves to collaborate with Perfumers and creative centers to drive business value growth? Then this might be the perfect opportunity for you

In this role as Creative Fragrance Manager you will be an important part of our Personal Care development team. Collaborating with Perfumers and Creative Centers on a global/cross regional level, assisting our customers in developing successful olfactive strategies.

Are your olfactory senses finely attuned? Do you live for the challenge of capturing the next new scent to inspire a generation? If so, this could well be the perfect opportunity for you to lead the creation of some of the world's most prestigious perfumes.

You will work in São Paulo, Brazil and will directly report to the Hair and Skin Care Creative Fragrance Director based in Brazil.

• Develop olfactory strategy for clients, market, category and guide Perfumery teams accordingly
• Manage multiple complex briefs and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines
• Partner with other regional creative centers, to complete project assignments
• Define fragrances to be tested and coordinate with Consumer Market Insight (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 proactive basis
• Work with lab on testing product stability
• Understand the Best Practices and efficiency improvement opportunities
• Anticipate market tastes; work with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generation
• Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building and sharing
• Conduct customer presentations/interactions
• Demonstrate track records of new wins
• 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 - Your professional profile should include:

• University degree or Masters in a relevant discipline;
• 7+ years of functional / technical experience in the fragrance creation business;
• Lead development projects with different complexities and timeframes;
• Strategize and articulate clear olfactive visions;
• Experience of fragrance products, general market dynamics and olfactory trends;
• Can mentor and lead a small team, as applicable. Training juniors at working levels;
• Work with customers/clients on briefs, technical matters and other issues;
• Clear olfactive strategy internally & externally;
• Experience with one or more Personal care categories (Hair, Skin, Skin Cleansing, Deos);

• Medical and Dental plan for you and your dependents;
• Life Insurance;
• On-site restaurant;
• Free Parking or Charter or Transportation Voucher;
• GymPass;
• Daycare Assistance (for women with children up to 5 years and 11 months);
• Pharmacy Assistance (medicine paid through payroll);
• Employee Assistance Program - specialized assistance and guidance in legal, psychological, financial, and social matters - 100% Confidential.

At Givaudan, we value diversity and believe that a variety of perspectives enhances our workplace. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively seek to hire individuals with disabilities, different ethnicities and genders and are committed to ensure equal opportunities for all employees and support their success

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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.