A Regional Strategic Initiatives Director with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, and a key member of the SAMEA (South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa) Fragrance & Beauty Consumer Products Development team, while being based in either our Mumbai or Dubai office – Your future position?

Are you a self-starter, excels in an unstructuapply-d role, loves to connect dots, has a few years of relevant experience leading strategic initiatives, and would like to take a new turn in your career by joining a global and leading organisation? Then this might be the perfect opportunity for you!

Fragrance is at the heart of Givaudan. We have a rich history of creating fragrances that strike an emotional chord with consumers. We are inspiapply-d 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 Fragrance (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.

Givaudan’s CP teams are present in every region of the world. Years of experience have resulted in a natural knowledge of consumer preferences depending on the segment and geographical location. Our fragrance CP teams work together to create the success that Givaudan enjoys and bring together several skills – Sales, Creation and Evaluation, Consumer & Market Insights, Marketing, Sampling, Pricing, Application, Library (Gallery), Customer Relations, Operations/Production, and QC. We have a selection of key competencies present in each region.

Our future growth will depend on our ability to continuously innovate and build value propositions for our customers and their consumers. We are working with innovation and strategy at the core of what we do, capable of transforming our deep expertise in fragrance design, technology, digital and health & wellbeing into unique solutions for our customers. The role offers you the opportunity to be at the heart of this collective ambition.

To help us further shape our journey to achieve our purpose and strategic business goals in the SAMEA region (South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa), we are currently looking to recruit a ‘Regional Strategic Initiatives Director’ to be an important part of our Fragrance Consumer Products Development team. As an individual contributor and working in close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will help build cross-category thinking and initiatives, lead non-category and new fragrance initiatives, and promotes new thinking for the diverse countries and sub-regions in the SAMEA region extending from West Africa to India. The role is flexible to be based either in our Dubai or Mumbai office (final location to be confirmed later based on the best candidate we select), and will directly report to the Fragrance Consumer Products Creative Center Director for the SAMEA region (based in India).

You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundapply-d 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 SAMEA region have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and a range of rich experiences to your daily job.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if you have a true passion for the world of fragrance and consumer products, love staying ahead of the curve, always aim to exceed customer needs, and are skilled at fostering strong relationships.

In this exciting role, you will help build:

• Develop cross-category thinking for the Fragrance Consumer Products Development team and promote its execution within the category structure.
• Lead all non-category specific fragrance initiatives: e.g. digital, sustainability, e-commerce.
• Identify potential external innovation partnerships for the development process according to needs.
• Lead the identification and forecasting of new fragrance trends and be the lead for Marketing excellence (forecast-ing, storytelling, and marketing tools).
• Partner with essential team members and external partners to make sure that Givaudan continues to be the market leader in the SAMEA region and can very well stay ahead of the game!

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