Fragrance Ingredients Business Portfolio Manager (m/f/d)

Givaudan; Vernier; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare support

Paid Time Off and family leave

Retirement plan

Sport and leisure clubs

Company shop

Staff restaurant

Corporate Mobility Plan

Job summary

Givaudan in Vernier is seeking a Fragrance Ingredients Business Portfolio Manager to lead portfolio strategy, lifecycle management, and cross-functional analysis in a global setting.

You will monitor performance, identify optimization opportunities, and provide data-driven recommendations to FIB Marketing and leadership, ensuring alignment with regulatory and commercial requirements across Naturals and Molecules.

Qualifications

• University degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related field.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience with ERP systems SAP.

Responsibilities

• Develop medium- and long-term strategy for global Fragrance Ingredients portfolio.
• Analyze portfolio data across sales, volumes, costs, and lifecycle to inform decisions.
• Coordinate with Sales, Finance, Operations, Regulatory, and Marketing for portfolio validation.

Skills

Portfolio management

Data analysis

Scenario planning

Decision support

Education

University degree

Tools

SAP

Excel

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. 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.
• Experience assessing the relevance, performance and complexity of products within a broad global portfolio.
• Experience developing balanced recommendations considering commercial, operational, regulatory and strategic factors.
• Experience taking a medium- and long-term perspective while ensuring follow-up on immediate portfolio priorities.
• Experience identifying meaningful trends, risks and opportunities from quantitative and qualitative data sources.
• Experience developing structured scenarios, business cases and decision-support materials.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience working with ERP systems such as SAP.
• Experience communicating complex analyses through clear conclusions, visualizations and recommendations.
• Ability to understand the possible effects of sales development, customer concentration, costs, supply constraints and regulatory changes on portfolio decisions.
• Able to operate in a global and multicultural organisation without direct authority over contributing teams.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple portfolio analyses and cross-functional projects.
• Experience managing sensitive product and business information with appropriate confidentiality.

Our Benefits

• Healthcare support
• Paid Time Off and family leave
• Retirement plan
• Sport and leisure clubs
• Company shop
• Staff restaurant
• Corporate Mobility Plan

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.