Associate Category Manager

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Associate Category Manager
- 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 16,000 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.**Associate Category Manager - Your future position?**
- Location: 5 Inglewood Pl, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153, Australia- Reporting to: Marketing Manager, Oceania**Job Purpose**
- As an Associate Category Manager, you will support the Taste & Wellbeing (T&W) portfolio within Oceania, implementing strategies and running assigned Category & Customer activities to ensure Givaudan's leading position within the Beverage, Food and FNI categories, and our distributor (IMCD), according to our goals and the Oceania B2B marketing strategy.**Core Responsibilities**

**Support category strategies, priorities and action plans**
- Develop understanding of assigned customer brands, strategies and categories
- Conduct market analysis to provide input for the Oceania B2B Marketing strategy for account development plans
- Identify business opportunities through market analysis in assigned categories and alongside with the Marketing Manager
- Review, plan and implement strategies for assigned categories, through analysis of customer products, growth rates, shares, new product introductions and competitive landscape
- Support Country Marketing Manager on category insights and customer presentations
- Fulfil Oceania commitments with the APAC region including meetings, roadmaps and proactives for assigned categories, building important contacts with the APAC R&I team
- Be a market insights champion for both internal and external market analysis tools (e.g. Euromonitor, Mintel & Global Data), to support the Givaudan commercial team

**Engage with Sales as assigned to provide marketing support for targeted customers**
- Develop relationships with Sales targets and assigned customers, and help coordinate and implement customer B2B marketing activities
- Ensure that customers know and understand our capabilities
- Build the Givaudan Brand in Oceania, by ensuring Oceania activities align with our Taste & Wellbeing Division and Segment Branding and Positioning.
- Lead the development of Oceania product or brand concepts to be presented to target customers
- Participate in customer briefs
- Conduct customer insight presentations, innovation days and facilities tours for assigned categories
- Develop Regional "proactive" go-to-market plans where relevant, based on voice-of-the-customer, technical capability/relevance and sales team feedback for assigned categories

**Commercialization opportunity assessments, development and delivery of presentations**
- Prepare and deliver capability presentations and prepare promotional material for target customer visits
- Ensure that our products, technology and concepts are translated to be relevant to the customers' brands, local markets
- Deliver customer presentations on new technologies when assigned by Country Marketing Manager
- Build an ongoing pipeline of customer trend, capabilities and new ideas presentations according to global and regional priorities and account plans

**Main Requirements**
- University level on a technical or commercial background (food science or chemistry or business/economics)
- 2 to 3 years experience in market, data, or consumer analysis
- Category, Insights, Sales or B2B Marketing experience with a know how of B2C Marketing in an international environment
- We welcome applicants from Food Technology, R&D, Innovation background who is keen on market analysis work
- Experience in Food & Beverage or related industry would be an advantage

**Our Benefits**
- Attractive package with benefits
- Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
- A creative team environment that will inspire you
- 12.5% Superannuation
- 17.5% Annual Leave Loading
- Wellbeing Leave
- LI-Y
- 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.

**Remote working**:On-site