CMI Manager - Active Beauty

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, 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 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk‑taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

We are seeking a Consumer Marketing Insights Manager (CDD) for Active Beauty in Toulouse to cover a maternity leave, with a planned start date of July / August, for a duration of 7 months.

Reporting to the Head of Strategic and Operational Marketing at Active Beauty, your role will be to oversee the consumer research division and the team. In this role, you will actively participate in the development of cosmetic ingredients. You will work closely with the marketing, R&D and sales teams and manage a work-study student.

Contribute to Business Growth

• Partner with regional sales and key account managers to address local market needs and deliver custom‑made client studies
• Translate insights into strategic recommendations and client‑facing presentations

Enable Cross‑Functional Success

• Gather and align briefs from Marketing, R&D and Sales
• Collaborate internally with Active Beauty different departments and the global Givaudan CMI community
• Lead end‑to‑end CMI projects design, agency briefings, sample coordination, analysis and reporting
• Build strategies to amplify insights

Shape Strategy & Foresight

• Align CMI roadmap with new product launches and client priorities
• Identify new partnerships and innovative research methodologies
• Represent CMI externally and drive competitive intelligence

Manage Talent & Operations

• Supervise and onboard a work‑study student
• Manage external partner relationships and annual budget planning

About You

Are you someone who wants to start now to grow and shape your own world? Do you thrive in a culture where you can express yourself in a positive team environment? Are you eager to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then come join us – and impact your world.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from a business school, in marketing, applied mathematics or statistics
• At least 3 years of experience in consumer research
• Proficiency in common data analysis software applications and the ability to program online surveys
• Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research (methodology, research designs, questionnaires, etc.)
• Knowledge of statistics
• Management experience preferred
• Affinity for the beauty industry is an advantage
• Fluent in English and French is mandatory

Benefits

• Health Insurance - (mutuelle)
• Profit Share
• Annual paid leave
• Meal coupons

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences.

Everyone – regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion or any personal circumstances – is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.