Global Marketing Director - Home and Personal Care (HPC)

Requisition  ID : 496984 

Job Description

The Home and Personal Care (HPC) team strives to be the preferred partner of our customers, delivering high-value, sustainable, and consumer relevant solutions for the Home, Personal, and Industrial Care Markets.  We now have a key vacancy for a Global Marketing Director to support our continued growth.  

Primary Duties: 

•    Manage, develop and lead the Marketing team
•    Participate in & develop the future strategy of HPC
•    Monitor global and regional industry and consumer trends in HPC space
•    Develop market insights and understanding of customer and consumer needs
•    Ensure that the product pipeline is aligned and consistent with consumer, customer and market insights
•    Building our branding (trademarks) and value proposition
•    Elaboration of marketing strategy (route to market, segmentation) in collaboration with regional sales team
•    Translate global marketing strategy to regional specifics and execute
•    Participation in the launch of new solutions and the positioning of our product portfolio in the regions
•    Target pricing of new solutions
•    Oversee the development of training materials and sales collateral for new product launches
•    Develop the marketing mix for our product portfolio 
•    Support the regional sales team in customers activities and KAM processes
•    Build relationships with key internal and external partners as well as with customers
•    Carry out HPC competitive monitoring
•    Work constructively and transparently with CF
 

Qualifications

 
•    Academic degree in Marketing or (bio)chemical degree with MBA or other formal marketing education
•    Extensive experience gained within a global B2B environment with a proven ability to build collaborative relationships across the globe.
•    Demonstrable track record of success within a global, matrix organisation environment
•    Proven experience in leading strategic and business planning with sound evidence of customer and consumer insight-led strategy development and implementation
•    Direct team line management and people leadership experience with proven ability to inspire, grow and develop people 
•    Leadership qualities in impacting, contributing and challenging business strategy 
•    Excellent project management skills and a strong communicator
•    Financial skills, P&L understanding 
•    Self-motivated
•    Flexible and pragmatic
•    Strong commercial acumen
•    Strong sense of urgency and achievement 
•    Resilient and able to respond under pressure 
•    Ability to influence 
•    Solid analytical skills 
 

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.

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