Junior Evaluator

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination 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.

Join our Fragrance Development Team as a Junior Evaluator, where you will select, develop, and validate fragrances in close cooperation with senior evaluator team members, with clear understanding of customer and brief requirements, to drive business value and ensure successful completion of external projects, according to Fragrance Evaluation objectives.

• Complete simple briefs with guidance & coaching from evaluation seniors, using IBIS system
• Support evaluation on Galleria management responsibility
• Work with Perfumers on technical modifications
• Conduct internal panel tests as directed by CFM
• Assist Marketing/Sales in olfactory mapping
• Prepare internal/small customer presentations
• Attend validation panels to review/evaluate library entries

• Search Fragrance Land for relevant themes
• Search Galleria for candidates/creative starting points

• Self-develop and train on-the-job and via Givaudan Learning Resource Centre

• University Degree (or equivalent)
• Verbal and written command of English

• 1-2 years’ experience as intern/trainee and other relevant experience in evaluation, or with related industry experience

• Proficiency in using common applications
• Competent olfactory skills: ability to define, recognize and memorize olfactory notes and fragrance language terms and determine olfactory directions (to be assessed by standardized olfactory test)
• Ability to create and make presentations for their submissions

• Apply Raw Material understanding to fragrance development process
• Ability to build and incorporate basic understanding of consumer olfactory preferences into fragrance evaluation
• Willingness to develop competent knowledge of fragrance applications across categories and reactions/interactions across different bases
• Competent knowledge of Givaudan Applications/Evaluation/Research methodologies, principles, protocols and documentation
• Basic knowledge of fragrance products, general market dynamics, and key customers
• Ability to build knowledge of customers' products and processes

• Effective utilization of Givaudan systems (IBIS, Fragrance land, GAlleria etc.) to identify themes and resources to meet project priorities

• Understanding of Givaudan's brief process and functional interfaces
• Time and project Management skills

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. Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion, or sexual identity.

We also have a safe work environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.