Marketing Manager, Food Ingredients

5 days ago


Gurugram India IFF Full time

Job Description

Job Summary

Are you passionate about innovation that transforms everyday products into extraordinary experiences

Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.

The role is based in Gurgaon, India (hybrid role). Be part of a motivated, passionate, and open-minded team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You'll Make a Difference

- Develop and deliver local market insights through an outstanding and uncommon customer experience.
- Bring forward the trends, opportunities, initiatives and targeted local marketing promotions and creative impactful communication.
- Ability to have real category insight, be curious about markets and consumers and therefore produce uncommon presentations that have commercial relevance along with innovative ideas that create an experience.
- Drive local engagement with customers with powerful storytelling, compelling ideas, and meaningful ways to connect.
- Provide market analysis and the generation of insights on markets, new potential customers, brands, food and beverage products and ingredients and associated recommendations for the business.
- Support pro-active and reactive customer-driven projects in a way that significantly increases the chances of generating and/or winning business opportunities.
- Be a strategic partner for the India Subcontinent by bringing forward local insights, trends and identifying opportunities, and relevant initiatives.
- Deliver creative and impactful communication (internally and externally).
- Support marketing communication and event management (exhibitions, conferences, food safaris, communication planning etc.)

What Makes You The Right Fit

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Marketing, Business, Communication or any other relevant discipline.
- Minimum of 5-8 years of Marketing experience in B2B or B2C environments, preferably within the Food Ingredients or FMCG industry.
- Proven experience in market analysis, communication campaigns, concept development and event management.
- Strong ability to interact with and influence multiple departments to meet customer needs.
- Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and ability to lead project execution at the local market level.
- Can-do attitude, ambitious, proactive and ready to embrace and deliver change.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate market and consumer insights into business opportunities.
- Willingness to travel as required.

How Would You Stand Out

- 2-3 years of team management experience is preferred.
- Project Management experience.
- Curious approach, enjoy difficult challenges.

Why Choose Us

- Multinational and supporting environment
- Health insurance
- Training opportunities
- Learning and development programs

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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