Location
Neuilly sur Seine, Hauts de Seine | France
Job description
Job Description
Your Mission
As the Marketing Specialist, your mission at IFF will be to support the sales and marketing teams by providing our customers with trend knowledge, idea innovation and related marketing support, as well as providing brand support and other internal marketing support as needed, coordinating with both internal and external customers for the Consumer Fragrance business unit.
About You:
- Well rounded experience and understanding of Marketing
- Graphic design experience in Photoshop and InDesign - Digital and Print Graphics
- Customer-facing experience
- Proficient in PowerPoint
- Excellent communication skills and presentation skills are crucial, with a high level of professional behavior both internally and externally.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people from all backgrounds and disciplines to achieve desired objectives is a highly-desired competency.
- Your ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage time effectively will be critical to your success
- Computer skills including MS Office products (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) are required.
- Familiarity with Mintel Database a plus
Job Requirements
You will spend your time…
- You will be supporting the growth of the company and brand by providing reactive and proactive customer support as directionally dictated by marketing and sales strategy.
- Reactive Customer Requests- Trend information, concept development lists, presentations, trend treks, one pagers, etc.
- Proactive Projects- Establish customer promotions, trend infographics, topic one pagers and sell sheets, collateral materials for proactive meetings with customers, trend trek materials, and internal business meetings.
- Create graphics, signage & additional marketing collateral as needed for customer support and internal/external brand support.
- Newsletter- Compile and publish monthly customer-facing newsletter showcasing new product launches and relevant trend topic articles.
- Additional functions as required by the role to support sales, marketing and company-wide initiatives, both internal and external.
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in marketing-related field with related experience in the food ingredient industry
- Three to five years experience working for a corporate marketing department, preferably in B2B
- Strong research skills across various trade, subscription databases and internet channels
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Adobe Photoshop and Flash
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to analyze and interpret statistical market data
- Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships
- Work in and contribute to a positive team environment
- Must be able to work well under pressure and thrive in fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
Preferred
- Some experience managing projects and supporting category/sales organizations
- Some exposure and experience with other non-PowerPoint presentation platforms (such as Prezi)
- Experience giving presentations
- Customer service experience and skills
- Interest in learning and experimenting with the most up-to-date design, database and analysis tools and techniques to integrate into our outputs
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…
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