Fragrance SSA Sr Consumer Market Insights Manager at Givaudan

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for:

Leadership and Project Management of regional and cross-regional market research projects - 

• Identification of methodology for consumer market research studies and projects.
• Commissioning and set up. 
• Cost Management
• Management and quality control of the field.
• Management of data analysis.

Consumer Market Insights (CMI) business partnering - 

• Partner with the fragrance Evaluation, Perfumers, Sales, Marketing and Technical teams and work closely on active & proactive regional and cross-regional market research projects throughout the fragrance development cycle
• Provide in-depth interpretation of results to guide fragrance development and selection, and help to build the rationale to support our brief submissions to customers.

Be our customers’ research expert -

• Act as a market research expert in direct contact with our customers, when appropriate, to discuss and review CMI strategies, methodologies and results.
• Discuss and review CMI needs, help draw olfactive hypotheses, discuss test methodologies to generate the most actionable information and present results through olfactive recommendations to internal and external customers.
• Ensure we store centrally CMI data and are accessible for future reference

Collaborate for category development - 

• Collaborate with our Personal Care, Fabric and Home & Air Care category teams, to provide CMI leadership and expertise to improve ways of working and support strategic proactive category plans. 
• Identify opportunities and gaps in knowledge, and translate insights from consumer behaviours to potential fragrance solutions to anticipate future market needs.

People management and development - 

• Manage, mentor, and coach 2 junior CMI team members.
• Create an environment for high performance through sound leadership. 

Your professional profile includes:

• A Bachelor's or University Degree in Marketing, business management or a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant and progressive work experience in market research, ideally with a good mix of industry and market research agency environments. 
• Preference will be given to South African nationals and candidates from designated groups to be compliant with the local regulations in South Africa.
• Experience in consumer insights for the fragrance industry or with market research companies focussing on the FMCG/CPG space will be ideal, but not mandatory.
• A successful leadership track record with proven people management experience of at least 2 years in successfully leading, developing, and building small to mid-sized performing teams.
• Hands-on experience with consumer testing techniques (both quantitative and qualitative), methodologies, design, statistical approaches and modelling, is preferred. 
• Understanding of inferential & multivariate statistics and experimental design will be advantageous. 
• Strong project management and excellent presentations skills.
• Comfortable in working and collaborating with diverse teams and cultures. 
• Excellent oral and written proficiency in the English language. Knowledge of additional languages will be advantageous. 
• Able to travel within South Africa and other SSA countries as required (~20% of the time).