Junior Evaluator

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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 16,000 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.

Junior Evaluator - Your future position?

As an Evaluator within the cross category team, you will provide fragrance winners to Sales by managing briefs, evaluating and selecting successful fragrances according to project priorities. Every discovery you make, shapes joyful memories for millions: capturing the hearts of consumers. You will be reporting to the Creative Fragrance Team Director.

You will be based in Baierbrunn, near Munich.

In this exciting role, you will:

Independently handle briefs while managing internal resources according to projects

Set up action plans/timetables for each brief

Set general fragrances directions, organize evaluation sessions, evaluate candidates & provide feedback to perfumers

Coordinate with other departments specific needs on briefs (Market Research, Lab. Factory, Q.A…) control “checkpoints” during brief process (cost, norms, deadlines, stabilities, base, availability…), provide feedback to sales, and ensure that samples are received by Sales on time with requested support data

Motivate perfumers and investigate potentially promising olfactive routes with perfumers.

Contribute to olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative development.

Monitor & Update the quality of the fragrance Library

Follow the Best Practices and efficiency improvement opportunities

Anticipate market tastes; collaborate with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generation

Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building & sharing

Conduct regular customer presentations/interactions

Your professional profile includes:

Qualification/Advanced degree in perfumery is preferred

Minimum 2 years of experience in the fragrance industry

Cross category evaluation experience is a plus

Knowledge of the industry and the customers

Knowledge of naturality aspects

Passion for perfume and olfaction

Excellent communication skills, diplomacy, tenacity, curiosity, resilience, creativity, pro-activity, storytelling (internal and customers) and team spirit

Excellent organisation skills, and ability to handle several projects at once

Fluent English/German is mandatory

You have short, open and honest communication channels in a great team.

You will work 37.5 hours per week with very flexible working hours and the option of mobile working. You will be paid according to one of the best-paid collective agreement in Germany as part of the chemical industry (plus holiday allowance, Christmas allowance and bonus), have 30 (+5) days holiday per calendar year and an employer-financed company pension scheme.

What else we offer: Convenient location, parking facilities, subsidised meals, leased bicycles, EGYM Wellpass and fresh organic fruit, water, coffee and tea free of charge.

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