Marketing Manager Cse

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 16,800 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.

**Marketing Manager South Eastern Europe - Taste & Wellbeing - Your future position?**

Are you aiming at working as a strategic partner to food and beverage companies, co-developing consumer-preferred solutions in a highly dynamic space with offerings spanning from classical flavours to taste solutions to kitchen ingredients to functional and nutritional ingredients and solutions?

As Marketing Manager of South Eastern Europe, you will drive commercial business development in the area, through a systematic process of proactively discovering opportunities and their targeted commercialization and by enabling the right focus through strategy development and its execution.

**This means**:

- You will develop together with the local and regional teams the market and segment strategy. You will work with the Commercial Director, the Sales and Technical Teams to ensure the successful implementation of regional and local marketing strategies and initiatives to deliver sustainable business and market share growth
- You will work with Commercial Director, the Sales and Technical Teams to identify and evaluate growth opportunities, in & beyond the current customer base and product offering and embed business development activities into an annual growth plan
- You will establish effective two-way communication with the Innovation Manager and Regional Innovation teams to identify innovation needs, challenges, and capability gaps for the area and you will take responsibility for the execution of the Innovation Roadmap and commercialization of the innovation program
- You will lead the building of value propositions for local initiatives and you will drive customer-centric thinking by taking the customer’s perspective. You will be an internal sparring partner for Key Account Managers and Product Development in the execution of customer briefs and local promotions, providing an understanding of consumer and industry trends and the competitive landscape

This role will be based in our Vienna office and report to the Commercial Director SEE.

**You?**

Are you a creative thinker and at the same time analytical, methodical, and disciplined with a deep passion for consumers, customers, and food & beverage? Are you passionate about food, flavours, and other taste ingredients? Are you a proactive self-starter with good influencing and leadership skills? Then come join us - and impact your world.

**Your professional profile includes**:

- At least a BA degree in Food Technology, or Marketing / Business Administration with a proven affinity for the food industry
- At least 5 - 10 years of Marketing experience, a solid understanding of marketing strategy and execution including brand positioning, building value propositions, and commercialization of new products
- B2B Marketing experience with good know-how of B2C Marketing or B2C marketing experience in the Food and Beverage industry.
- Team player, experienced in working in multidisciplinary teams in a global matrix environment
- Ability to handle complexity, plan and set priorities
- Solid business acumen
- Fluency in English
- Willingness to travel (30-40%)

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.