Category Director Home Care

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**Category Director Home Care Europe - Your future position?**

**As Category Director Home Care at our European Creative Centre for Consumer Products Fragranc-es, you will lead the development and implementation of the regional home care category structure and plan in order to drive business growth. Sounds exciting? It could well be your perfect opportuni-ty if you have a true passion for fragrances and desire to drive creation and development process for the home care category.**

**Reporting to the Creative Centre Director Europe, you will be expected to deliver on**:

- ** Develop and implement the regional category strategic plan via a holistic involvement of all func-tions of the team (Evaluation, Consumer Insights and Marketing) and Perfumers**
- ** Responsible for establishing and executing category strategic initiatives**
- ** Facilitating the efficient management of the Development workload including realizing of Brief Segmentation guidelines and mind set**
- ** Assessment of performance and improvement in ways of working**
- ** Collaborate with commercial teams to identify, interpret business needs and objectives**
- ** Overall responsibility for professional development including pipeline build, talent / experience development**

**You?**

**Your professional profile includes**:

- ** Bachelor’s degree with at least 15 years’ cross-functional experience in the fragrance industry**
- ** Experience in Fragrance Brief Management on a Sales or Evaluation role**
- ** Deep knowledge of the home care category**
- ** Fluency in English**
- ** Ability to build networks, to achieve results through influence, to work effectively in a matrix en-vironment**
- ** Multifunctional and cross-cultural experience within an international environment**
- ** Strong leadership and people management skills**
- ** Ability to think strategically and ability to translate strategies into tangible deliverables**
- ** Project management and focus on implementation**

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.
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