Marketing Manager Italy

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 16,800 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.
Marketing Manager - Italy - Your future position?

The aim of this position is to develop and share a market, consumer and brand expertise across categories from a conceptual and olfactive stand point. Bring valuable fragrance marketing service to the clients and drive the Givaudan business by identifying and promoting product and fragrance opportunities. Manage multi-national projects within various functions (sales, perfumers, evaluation) spanning mainly Europe but also other regions globally.
Expect to exceed customer needs, think beyond to predict the next market theme, deliver value and foster strong relationships.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop assigned categories: monitor the category activities (market dynamics, product activity) ; understand the client brand.
- Provide marketing expertise, in coordination with the Evaluation team and build an olfactive vision of the assigned category; monitor and anticipate the regional and global trends conceptually and olfactively.
- Build in-depth market and consumer understanding for assigned product categories
- Generate insightful market and consumer analysis featuring opportunities for internal stakeholders and external customers.
- Create and deliver client presentations & innovative stories, tailoring Givaudan value proposition to specific client & market needs.
- Design marketing programs to address creative team & client needs
- Identify market 'white space' and ideate new product directions through concept creation : writing, visuals-collaborating with the creative team for synergies with olfactive recommendations
- Initiate and drive new creative marketing programmes proactively.
- Work with Sales and Evaluation teams to establish appropriate olfactory direction to generate 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 3 years of marketing experience in a fragrance house, FMCG company, or experience as a strategic planner or consultant in an advertising agency
- Collaborative team player with strong communication and networking skills
- Curious with storytelling strengths
- Creative solution oriented
- Analytical imagination (creative and logic balance)
- Excellent presentation and high analytical skills
- Being able to create compelling visual presentations
- Consumer and customer focus
- Organized, able to handle complexity, plan and set priorities
- Italian and English is required (written and oral)

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.