Junior Evaluator

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, 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.

In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. 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.

The position can be based in Argenteuil or Baierbrunn.

In this exciting role you will:

• Independently handle briefs while managing internal resources according to projects
• Set up action plans/time tables 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, deadliness, stabilities, base, availability…), provide feedback to sales, and ensure that samples are received by Sales on time with requested support data
• Motivate perfumers and regularly investigate potentially promising olfactive routes with perfumers.
• Contribute in 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
  
  

You?

Are you someone who wants to shape your world? Who grows in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us – and improve your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• Qualification/Advanced degree in perfumery with minimum 3 years experience in the fragrance industry
• Cross category evaluation experience is a plus
• Good knowledge of the industry and the customers
• Good 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 in French/English
  
  

Our Benefits:

• Attractive package with benefits
• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
• A creative team environment that will inspire you
• Comprehensive healthcare plans
  
  

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.