Job Summary

Responsible for driving sustainable profitable sales and market share growth by identifying the customer needs and opportunities, establishing solid customer relationship, leading, coordinating and reporting IFF activities and promoting relevant solutions aligned with corporate strategy. For a defined territory, category, coordinated or global account:
Ensure financial targets are met and business performance is constantly monitored and reported; develop and maintain sustainable relationships with internal and external customers; prepare account plan and report relevant market information; collaborate with internal departments to explore innovations and new concepts related to customers’ products and on-going projects; monitor market development in terms of competitors, products, and trends; partner with operation team to ensure customer satisfaction in terms of service, quality, and supply.

How you will contribute and lead:
• Understand specific market and customer ecosystem including activities, strategies, brands, markets, consumers via different sources
• Develop multi-level cross-functional customer relationships with key customer decision makers/influencers
• Maximize potential advantage to IFF while delivering optimal solutions to customer (GP improvement, catalogue optimization, complexity reduction, etc.)
• Ensure customer supply chain requirements, processes and KPIs are well communicated to IFF Operations to ensure we meet customer needs
• Acts as the main customer point of contact in all matters
• Lead projects through effective communication, and collaboration with key external and internal stakeholders(CI/Marketing/Creative Teams/formulation etc.)
• Ensure objectives are aligned to the business and personal development plans are in place
• Develop commercial strategy for allocated customer portfolio
• Build and execute account plans successfully
• Define and suggest the required account resources, investment, and relevant service model to support the account
• Effectively communicate the account plans with stakeholders including internal and external team members
• Review/update the progress of account plans versus KPI targets
• Review brief and ensure all objectives and parameters are clear
• Influence customer brief definition to IFF’s advantage
• Evaluate and decide on final submissions with Scent Design Group and Creative teams
• Effectively promote the most appropriate IFF product solutions / portfolio aligned with the brief
• Generate proposal/price aligned with category margin guidelines or pricing officer
• Monitor and ensure cost-to-serve of projects adhere to guidelines
• Communicate project results and conduct retrospective reviews on projects wins and losses
• Update Project management system and issue adoption report in a timely manner
• Manage volumes/timing expectations and liaise with Operations to ensure supply chain readiness
• Accurately forecast and update sales forecast tool (SFT) to capture performance vs budget, business risk & opportunities, new wins
• Monitor & Provide Account sales performance (monthly / quarterly / annually) and provide strategic project updates to Manager
• Implement price increase in line with country/region strategy

What you will need to be successful:
Experience:
• Approximately more than 5 years of experience in sales, or marketing preferably fragrance, cosmetics, FMCG, chemical or ingredients industries
• Strong track record at a similar level with a passion to succeed in commercial
Skills:
• Customer centric with B2B management experience
• Analytical with the ability to deal with financial concepts/processes(pricing/margin/forecasting)
• Strong interests in product development, consumers, and market understanding(Marketing/R&D/CI)
• Sound fragrance knowledge and olfactive skills or skin care and biochemistry knowledge, where applicable
• Creative and innovative thinking
• Project management with effective collaboration and orchestration skills
• Strong communication, presentation, storytelling, and negotiation skills
• Understanding of digital marketing and ecommerce environment
• Effective business English with a global mindset and ability to work with different cultures
• Digital savvy with an ability to leverage online resources
• Ability to gather and leverage competitive market intelligence
 

At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex or veteran status. We strive for inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability. Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more… 

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more