Fragrance Ssa Sr Consumer

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.

Fragrance Consumer Products Senior Consumer & Market InsightsManager (Quantitative Research) for Sub-Saharan Africa

A Senior Consumer Market Insights Manager with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, and a key member of our Fragrance Consumer Products Development team for Sub-Saharan Africa, while being based in either our Johannesburg/Cairo office - Could this be your future position?

Fragrance is at the heart of Givaudan. We have a rich history of creating fragrances that strike an emotional chord with consumers. We are inspired by our rich heritage and our contribution to defining the evolution of the trends over time. We create scents that shape people's lives.

Our senses step into gear from the moment we wake up in the morning until we turn in for the night. The consumer grooming and cleaning regimen intersects with Consumer Products (Personal care, Home & Air care, Fabric care, Oral care), Fine Fragrances (Perfumes), and Active Beauty products, with fragrance at the core of every experience. Givaudan Consumer Products (CP’s) are, more often than not, responsible for carrying you through the olfactive journey of your day.

Our Fragrance development team houses Evaluator’s who are olfactive development specialists, Marketeers, Consumer & Market Insights specialists, and Library (Gallery) & Best Practices teams who collaborate closely with our Perfumers and Customers to create winning fragrances. To do so, the development team analyses current olfactive trends, forecast future trends and assess consumer preferences. Our Consumer Market Insights (CMI) team is a key business partner supporting the fragrance development and sales teams, providing in-depth consumer understanding knowledge and interpretation of test results to inspire and guide the development and selection of specific fragrance solutions for our customers.

As a Senior CMI Manager, you will be hands-on and manage the consumer market insights activity for SSA for our key customers in our B2B environment while also having a strong pulse of the B2B space, taking the lead on regional projects, providing insightful CMI expertise across our fragrance consumer products categories (Personal, Fabric, and Home & Air Care), and support our South Africa fragrance creation centre catering for our SSA region. You will deliver insightful consumer results to several internal stakeholders, such as fragrance development, marketing and sales teams. The role also involves collaborating with several market research agencies across SSA; hence, sound planning and project management skills are essential.

You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. With its heritage stretching back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes. Our passion is to collaborate with customers and partners to develop game-changing innovations in the food & beverage, fragrance and beauty industries. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers in the SSA region have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and curiosity to your daily job.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, can deliver value, and are skilled at fostering excellent relationships

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for
- Leadership and Project Management of regional and cross-regional market research projects:

- Identification of methodology for consumer market research studies and projects.
- Commissioning and set up.
- Cost Management
- Management and quality control of the field.
- Management of data analysis.
- Ensure that we store the CMI data centrally and accessible for future reference.

**Consumer Market Insights (CMI) business partnering**:

- Partner with the fragrance Evaluation, Perfumers, Sales, Marketing and Technical teams and work closely on active & proactive regional and cross-regional market research projects throughout the fragrance development cycle.
- Provide in-depth interpretation of results to guide fragrance development and selection, and help to build the rationale to support our brief submissions to customers.

**Be our Customers’ research expert**:

- Act as a market researc