Fragrance Evaluation Manager Sub Saharan Africa H/F Mane

The Fragrance Evaluation Manager Sub Saharan Africa oversees the Sub-Saharan Africa FDM team based in Ivory Coast and South Africa. She/he is fundamentally a team leader as well as a project manager in the fragrance division. His/her duty as manager is to assist the Fragrance sales team and lead the Evaluation team efficiently confidently by bringing guidance, market knowledge and olfactive strategies. As an evaluator he/she must manage fragrance projects in order to answer client briefs with the best proposals by a scheduled due date.
His/ her role is to build a high performing SSA evaluation team.

SCOPE OF JOB

Independence (Finance)
-Manage his/her team annual trip budget effectively

Innovation
-Has the responsibility to lead the build and update the relevant collections in each category, regarding the needs of the customers in each country
-Is responsible for the transmission of the knowledge within his / her team of any innovation (product/process) developed inside Mane worldwide

Customer Centricity
-Ensure the knowledge of the customer preferences through a strong link with sales
-Ensure the knowledge of the consumer needs in each country through a strong link with marketing and CI departments

Project management
She/he is given Fragrance projects which need to be compliant to the client brief and MANE Development Policies.
His/her mission is:
-To decide the technical & human needs of the project
-To schedule a due date together with the Sales Department
-To make sure the brief is answered correctly.
-To justify his/her olfactive choices

Fragrance management
To answer a brief precisely and promote Mane's Creations, the incumbent should:
-Analyse the market and its evolution.
-Create, complete, and optimize a local fragrance collection fitting the market trends and expectations.
-Manage the collection using tools given by the company (classification of fragrances, stability test, GPMS)
-Advise the Sales department & clients on their olfactive choices

People
-Align yourself to the performance driven culture through the implementation of performance management and talent management.
-Participate in development planning process.
-Align yourself to the Mane Code of Ethics.
-Align yourself to the Value System.
-Build a strong SSA evaluation organisation acting as one team for speed and best-in-class olfactive proposals for each project
-Assist the evaluation team when they approach difficulties with projects.
-Clear instructions and guidance to the team as how to handle projects and utilise resources for specific clients and projects.
-As a manager she/he must ensure that communication among the team is strong and continuous and that they are working successfully together
-It is his/her duty to identify team weaknesses and strengths to recommend further development and training for those individuals to improve their skills and abilities within the workplace.