Fragrance Ingredients Business Portfolio Manager

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 17,000 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. Fragrance Ingredients Business Portfolio Manager (m/f/d) you will join our Marketing and Sales Department in Vernier (Switzerland), and you will report directly to our FIB Marketing Director. you will be in charge of providing comprehensive analysis and recommendations to support the medium
- and long-term management of Givaudan's Fragrance Ingredients Business portfolio, across Naturals and Molecules. You will monitor portfolio performance and lifecycle. You will identify opportunities for portfolio optimisation. You will provide FIB Marketing and Business leadership with the insights required to make informed decisions. These decisions will regard product maintenance, development, external commercialization, and discontinuation. Reporting To The FIB Marketing Director, You Will Portfolio Strategy and Lifecycle Management Help develop and implement the medium
- and long-term strategy for the global Fragrance Ingredients Business portfolio. Monitor the lifecycle and overall consistency of the externally commercialised portfolio across Naturals and Molecules. Identify opportunities to improve and clarify the portfolio, while maintaining a relevant and competitive offering for customers. Assess products with limited volumes, declining performance or increasing operational and regulatory complexity, and develop appropriate recommendations. Prepare fact-based recommendations regarding the maintenance, repositioning, consolidation or discontinuation of products. Support the definition and coordination of product discontinuation plans, ensuring appropriate assessment of customer, commercial, operational and regulatory impacts. Assess opportunities to expand the externally available portfolio and provide the relevant analyses to support decision-making. Contribute to the prioritisation of portfolio projects according to our FIB strategy. Portfolio Analysis and Insights Analyse portfolio data across sales, volumes, customer base, geographic reach, product lifecycle, costs, supply, manufacturing and regulatory dimensions. Identify portfolio trends, risks, overlaps, gaps and new opportunities. Consolidate information from multiple functions and systems to provide a comprehensive view of product performance and relevance. Develop scenarios, business cases and recommendations to support portfolio decisions. Create and maintain portfolio dashboards, analyses and reporting tools. Ensure that portfolio information is accurate, structured and accessible to relevant company partners. Translate complex datasets into clear conclusions and applicable recommendations for FIB Marketing and Business leadership. Cross-Functional Portfolio Coordination Work with Sales, Finance, Operations, Regulatory and Marketing to collect, validate and interpret portfolio information. Coordinate cross-functional assessments related to product maintenance, availability, external commercialisation and discontinuation Facilitate portfolio reviews and prepare recommendations for discussion and validation by FIB Marketing and Business leadership. Follow up on agreed portfolio decisions and monitor their implementation across relevant departments. Be the central contact within FIB Marketing for portfolio-related information and analyses. Marketing and Promotional Support Provide portfolio insights to support the prioritisation and development of global Fragrance Ingredients promotional activities. Help identify products or ingredient families requiring increased visibility, renewed promotional support or repositioning. Equip the FIB Marketing team with clear data and portfolio rationales to support external promotional programmes. Collaborate with Marketing to ensure consistency between portfolio strategy, product positioning and promotional priorities. You? University degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field. Additional education or experience in portfolio management, product management or the chemical industry is beneficial. 5+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, business analysis, strategic marketing or a related function. Experience working with complex product portfolios in an industrial international B2B environment. Experience in the fragrance, ingredients, naturals, chemicals or related industries. Experience with product portfolio management and lifecycle principles.