Senior Marketing Manager, APAC

International Flavors & Fragrances; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global flavor and fragrance company is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager in Singapore to drive strategic projects for Fine Fragrances. The role requires at least 7 years of experience in the fragrances industry, strong creativity, and excellent presentation skills. The successful candidate will contribute to the APAC Marketing community and engage with global and regional teams to deliver innovative marketing strategies.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of Fragrances industry experience preferably Fine Fragrance.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
• Strong ability to analyze data and create insights.

Responsibilities

• Identify key social and product trends for marketing concepts.
• Support sales teams during customer meetings.
• Analyze sales data for creative marketing presentations.

Skills

Creativity in fragrance products

Excellent presentation skills

Business acumen

Interpersonal skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Fragrance, Chemistry

MBA (added advantage)

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Do you have expertise in strategic marketing? Joining science and creativity, we are an international collective of thinkers who partner with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products the world craves.

If you are passionate about Fine Fragrances, bring an uncommon approach to driving growth and bringing the best creativity you could be our next Senior Marketing Manager, APAC!

Your Focus

As Senior Marketing Manager, you will be in charge of strategic projects for specific customer accounts for reactive and proactive sales of Fine Fragrances. You will develop the APAC Marketing community according to the business growth.

Besides the management context, this role creatively integrates market data and analysis, including macro / micro and emerging lifestyle trends, consumer insights, product, brand and competitive intelligence to deliver best in class services to our customers.

This role offers the opportunity to experience a fast-paced industry and a chance to create work for both new and established fragrance brands. Based in Singapore, you will be part of a Global Marketing team, reporting directly to the Europe based Global Marketing Manager, with dotted line report to the Asia based Commercial Director.

How you will contribute

• Identifying and leverage key social, product, brand and olfactive trends to help build marketing rationale and concepts.
• Co-create with development and sales team influential noteworthy storytelling.
• Support sales team during customers meetings.
• Writing fragrance and ingredient descriptions, marketing concepts and perfumer interviews to support fragrance candidates.
• Analyzing and presenting sales data to support creative marketing presentations.
• Understanding and utilizing IFF corporate capabilities to differentiate IFF from competitors.

Job Requirements

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Fragrance, Chemistry or relevant discipline. MBA is an added advantage.
• At least 7 years of Fragrances industry experience preferably Fine Fragrance. Strong creativity and passion in Fragrance products.
• Excellent presentation skills with ability to communicate or engage at all levels.
• Ability to work effectively with global, regional and local teams in a multicultural and fast changing environment.
• Great business acumen, capability to translate opportunities into solid business projects.
• Demonstrate expertise in project management, ability to influence, brand understanding and problem-solving skills.
• Comprehensive understanding and strong ability to analyze data, create insights and recommend actions based on findings.
• Ability to see the “bigger picture” and translate vision and strategy into understandable goals, priorities and challenges.
• Solid interpersonal and relationship management skills.
• Strong prioritization, planning, attention to detail, time management and organization skills.
• High proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% or more.

At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex or veteran status. We strive for inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.