Marketing Manager, Beauty Care

IFF•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. This role focuses on the Scent division, harnessing the emotional power of scent through creativity, science, consumer expertise, and mindful fragrance design. The position is based in New York, NY, and requires an onsite presence as a hybrid role. The successful candidate will join a customer-focused, passionate, and growth-oriented team dedicated to achieving greatness and making a real impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
4+ years of marketing experience, preferably with knowledge of the Beauty Care and Body Care Category (Shampoo, Conditioners, Hand Soap, Body Wash, Lotions, Bar Soaps, Sanitizers, etc.)
High emotional intelligence and experience with managing key stakeholders
Demonstrated project management, negotiations and problem solving skills
Proven ability to work independently, juggle multiple priorities and complete responsibilities in a fast paced, change oriented environment
Proven ability to develop and maintain effective work relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Proficient in operating Microsoft environment programs (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook)
Creativity and Passion for fragrances and for consumers with strong interest in product, concept, olfactive development.
Strong presentation skills and ability to effectively communicate fragrance product development, concepts and technical projects

Nice To Haves

Interested in developing creative skills to manage visual programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Canva basics.
Minimum 3 - 5 years of Fragrance Industry experience in Marketing or internal relevant experience or marketing experience in adjacent industries (preferably FMCG, Flavors, Chemical/Ingredients) or in B2B Marketing with a strong know how of B2C Marketing in an international environment.

Responsibilities

Drive white space analysis and identify actionable insights to generate business opportunities with differentiating customer value propositions.
Define and build inspirational and impactful client presentations, organize workshops and inspirational events translating into customer brand implications and/or business opportunities.
Generate new business opportunities by building differentiating value propositions for an IFF product offering targeting a specific customer/brand/region.
Define and execute marketing strategy for category/cross category aligned with account or regional commercial strategy.
Drive collaboration with internal creative areas, building strong fragrance story telling, concepts deeply rooted with consumer insights data.
Ensure IFF is at the forefront of marketing trends and constantly drive innovation.
Develop an in-depth understanding of category consumer trends and future needs scenarios at a regional level, including gap analysis, competitors and market intelligence.
Translate cross category market trends and consumer lifestyle into relevant product and brand concepts including sustainability & seasonality cross-category trends and opportunities.