Hybrid Category Director, Consumer Products

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Category Director leading the NOAM Consumer Products Division at Givaudan. Championing regional category plan development and team leadership in fragrance and beauty.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and energize the NOAM Category team
  • Champion the development and implementation of the regional category plan
  • Demonstrate strong leadership and people management skills
  • Develop and implement the regional category strategic plan
  • Responsible for establishing and executing category strategic initiatives
  • Efficiently manage the Development team’s workload
  • Assess performance and determine areas for improvement
  • Collaborate with Commercial teams to identify business needs
  • Liaise with other internal functions to ensure needs are represented
  • Lead multi-functional team across Evaluation, Marketing and CMI disciplines
  • Overall responsibility for team development including pipeline build
  • Actively participate in global category network to leverage best practices
  • Champion creative problem solving and innovation

Requirements

  • Minimum 15+ years of professional experience within the fragrance or related creative industries
  • Minimum 2-3 years of successful team leadership experience
  • Excellent ability to build relationships
  • Expert knowledge of consumer products (market dynamics, olfactory trends)
  • Solid knowledge for consumers within consumer products sector
  • Excellent leadership and people management skills
  • Strong facilitation and presentation skills
  • Strong ability to think strategically and ability to translate strategies into tangible deliverables
  • Proven track record + experience working in global environment

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • high matching 401k plan

Job title

Category Director, Consumer Products

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$190,000 - $250,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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