Category Director South Asia

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Category Director South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan) Your future position

A key member of our Givaudan Fragrance and Beauty Key Account, as a Global Fragrance Director, you aim at protecting, growing and future-proofing the sales and profitability of the respective category via strong internal and client networks, a clear strategic category vision and inspirational team leadership.

If you are passionate about consumer product fragrances, strategically agile, a global team player, and adept at delivering on customer sales targets and securing new wins, then this role will allow you to make an impact

Based in Mumbai, India, the role reports to the Global Business Development Director and offers excellent opportunities for both personal and professional development.

In this exciting and strategic role you will:

• Define and implement a strategy to protect, grow, and future-proof the business for a key global account. Identifying and prioritising the key opportunities and risks to the business and then delivering executable plans to address these.
• Maintain and build strong relationships with key stakeholders at your client and position Givaudan as the go-to partner of choice.
• Clearly communicate the key technology needs of the client to ensure that the Givaudan Science & Technology function has a clear set of prioritised objectives within a realistic timeframe.
• Lead, coach, inspire and motivate both the direct and indirect teams in the global commercial, development and support teams
• Ensure that internal resources are effectively focused via clear and consistent communication of the category needs to the development teams.
• Negotiate strong commercial deals to enable Givaudan to grow market share within the category

Are you someone who wants to shape your world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are?

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including but not limited to race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and age.

Your professional profile includes:

• Graduate or higher degree with a high level of agility
• Strong FMCG business knowledge
• Ideally 10 years of experience in the fragrance industry and at least 5 years of sales experience.
• Scientific or development experience would be a plus.
• Strong Project management skills, Fluency in English mandatory
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills, performance management, and business acumen, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Good at building relationships/networking and influencing senior stakeholders
• Excellent negotiation and cultural awareness and sensitivity to the diverse markets in South Asia are essential.
• Understanding of the sustainability challenges

Our Benefits:

• Attractive package with benefits (Medical insurance, pension etc).
• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• A creative team environment that will inspire you.

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Every essence of you enriches our world.
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Locations - Mumbai, IN, 400093