Commercial Associate

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, 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. 
In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity 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.

You will be an important link between our sales organization and production partners, focused on developing and reinforcing best practices related to the commercialization of fragrances for production; maintaining relationships with our cross-functional partners (Sales, Supply & Demand Planning, Production Planning, Customer Care, Quality) through fluid collaboration and communication of FF NOAM commercial priorities.  We expect there to be periodic travel between Givaudan's North America fragrance sites (located in New York City, East Hanover, Mount Olive and Towaco).

Your Title: Commercial Associate
Your Location: East Hanover, NJ
You will report to: Regional Commercial Manager & CI Lead

What You'll Do:
Sales Training
    Support Regional Commercial Manager in onboarding and continued education of the sales organization 
    Help cultivate a numbers-knowledgeable sales organization: provide education on systems, reporting and Indicators, determine and reinforce best practices to facilitate brief management and data integrity
Data Integrity & Continuous Improvement
    Support Regional Commercial Manager on continuous improvement projects 
    Enable sales & management to make decisions related to resource allocation, new business models and ways of working
Supply Chain & Operations
    Maintain FF NOAM relationship with  production site:

• Communicate daily priorities and projects
• Ensure streamlined processes between creative and production sites
• Oversee delivery of forecasts and other relevant information
• Troubleshoot quality and production issues with partners

    Interface with clients on matters of planning, production, and risk mitigation

Professional Requirements:
    Bachelor's Degree preferred
    At least 2 years of experience in an analytic or operations role
    Excellent MS Suite skills including Excel (can perform complex functions) and PowerPoint
    Passion for end-to-end process optimization
    Comfortable with data entry and analysis
    Comfortable interacting with multiple parties daily

Benefits:
Great compensation package
Major medical, dental, and vision coverage
Generous 401k matching program

Join us in our mission to improve the world through quality and new ideas. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
 

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.