Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, 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. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, 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.

Trainee Evaluator, Mumbai – Your future position?

As a Trainee Evaluator, you will perform assigned duties and shadow senior colleagues in order to gain knowledge and experience in Fragrance Evaluation area, according to learning plan and company talent needs. This role will be based at our corporate office in Mumbai and reporting to the Creative Fragrance Director.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, deliver value and are skilled at fostering strong relationships.

In this exciting role you will:

Fragrance Evaluation Development:

Develop basic fragrance understanding including history, raw materials, fragrance families and perfume archetypes through guided learning and self-study

Undertake assignments in category teams and develop deep understanding of evaluation protocols, market and consumer dynamics, best sellers and best smellers within the categories

Understand the brief process and develop ability to complete simple briefs with coaching from CFM, using internal system. Shadow more senior evaluators on real-time briefs

Undertake assignments in other departments to gain in-depth understanding of related functions in the organization.

Evaluation Training Programme:

Commit to, and complete on time, all stages of Evaluation Training Programme as agreed with CFD or CFM responsible for guiding training

Givaudan Systems:

Develop ability to search Colibri for fragrance candidates/creative starting points

Develop ability to search Fragrance Land for relevant themes

Activation and Gallery:

Participate in meetings relating to building and curating the best in class fragrance collection

Participate in activation projects requiring fast and efficient selection of fragrances from oil or blind

You

Are you someone who wants to shape your own world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us – and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes:

University degree

1 to 2 years’ experience in fragrance evaluation or similar role

Verbal and written command of English

Proficiency in using common PC 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)

Evaluation/Applications Skills

Project Management

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.