Category Director, Consumer Products
Givaudan
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: East Hanover • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $190,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
strategic planningperformance assessmentcategory managementpipeline developmentcreative problem solvinginnovation
Soft skills
leadershippeople managementrelationship buildingfacilitationpresentationstrategic thinking