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As a Fragrance Ingredients Business Portfolio Manager (m/f/d), you will join the Marketing and Sales Department in Vernier, Switzerland, reporting directly to the FIB Marketing Director. You will be responsible for providing comprehensive analysis and recommendations to support the medium- and long-term management of Givaudan's Fragrance Ingredients Business portfolio, across Naturals and Molecules.

• Help develop and implement the medium- and long-term strategy for the global Fragrance Ingredients Business portfolio.
• Monitor the lifecycle and overall consistency of the externally commercialised portfolio across Naturals and Molecules.
• Identify opportunities to improve and clarify the portfolio, maintaining a relevant and competitive offering for customers.
• Assess products with limited volumes, declining performance or increasing operational and regulatory complexity, and develop appropriate recommendations.
• Prepare fact-based recommendations regarding the maintenance, repositioning, consolidation or discontinuation of products.
• Support the definition and coordination of product discontinuation plans, ensuring appropriate assessment of customer, commercial, operational and regulatory impacts.
• Assess opportunities to expand the externally available portfolio and provide relevant analyses to support decision-making.
• Contribute to the prioritisation of portfolio projects according to FIB strategy.
• Analyse portfolio data across sales, volumes, customer base, geographic reach, product lifecycle, costs, supply, manufacturing and regulatory dimensions.
• Identify portfolio trends, risks, overlaps, gaps and new opportunities.
• Consolidate information from multiple functions and systems to provide a comprehensive view of product performance and relevance.
• Develop scenarios, business cases and recommendations to support portfolio decisions.
• Create and maintain portfolio dashboards, analyses and reporting tools.
• Ensure that portfolio information is accurate, structured and accessible to relevant company partners.
• Translate complex datasets into clear conclusions and applicable recommendations for FIB Marketing and Business leadership.
• Work with Sales, Finance, Operations, Regulatory and Marketing to collect, validate and interpret portfolio information.
• Coordinate cross-functional assessments related to product maintenance, availability, external commercialisation and discontinuation.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews and prepare recommendations for discussion and validation by FIB Marketing and Business leadership.
• Follow up on agreed portfolio decisions and monitor their implementation across relevant departments.
• Be the central contact within FIB Marketing for portfolio-related information and analyses.
• Provide portfolio insights to support the prioritisation and development of global Fragrance Ingredients promotional activities.
• Help identify products or ingredient families requiring increased visibility, renewed promotional support or repositioning.
• Equip the FIB Marketing team with clear data and portfolio rationales to support external promotional programmes.
• Collaborate with Marketing to ensure consistency between portfolio strategy, product positioning and promotional priorities.

• University degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Additional education or experience in portfolio management, product management or the chemical industry is beneficial.
• 5+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, business analysis, strategic marketing or a related function.
• Experience working with complex product portfolios in an industrial international B2B environment.
• Experience in the fragrance, ingredients, naturals, chemicals or related industries.
• Experience with product portfolio management and lifecycle principles.
• Experience assessing the relevance, performance and complexity of products within a broad global portfolio.
• Experience developing balanced recommendations considering commercial, operational, regulatory and strategic factors.
• Experience taking a medium- and long-term perspective while ensuring follow-up on immediate portfolio priorities.
• Experience identifying meaningful trends, risks and opportunities from quantitative and qualitative data sources.
• Experience developing structured scenarios, business cases and decision-support materials.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience working with ERP systems such as SAP.
• Experience communicating complex analyses through clear conclusions, visualizations and recommendations.
• Ability to understand the possible effects of sales development, customer concentration, costs, supply constraints and regulatory changes on portfolio decisions.
• Able to operate in a global and multicultural organisation without direct authority over contributing teams.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple portfolio analyses and cross-functional projects.
• Experience managing sensitive product and business information with appropriate confidentiality.

• Healthcare support
• Paid Time Off and family leave
• Retirement plan
• Sport and leisure clubs
• Company shop
• Staff restaurant
• Corporate Mobility Plan

Givaudan delivers food innovations, crafts inspired fragrances and develops beauty and wellbeing solutions with more than 17,000 employees worldwide. The company values diverse perspectives and welcomes everyone, regardless of background or personal circumstances.