Global Fragrance Director

2 days ago


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India GIVAUDAN Full time ₹ 20,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year
Job Description

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. Theres 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.

Global Fragrance Director for a Global Account South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan) Your future position

Category: Home Care (includes Fabric Care & Home Care) or Personal Care (includes Personal wash, Hair and Skin Care)

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, with ideally 10 years of experience in the fragrance industry and at least 5 years of sales experience. A 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.

#LI-Onsite

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch peoples 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.

Locations - Mumbai, IN, 400093



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