Marketing Manager, Food Ingredients

Job Summary

Looking for a role that challenges you while making an impact on products people use every day?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture, and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.​

The role is based in Chatswood, Sydney, Australia. Report to Regional Marketing Director, Food Ingredients, Greater Asia. Be part of a motivated, passionate, and open-minded team where together we can drive results and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Your Focus

The Marketing Manager, Food Ingredients will be tasked with the development and delivery of regional market insights through an outstanding and uncommon customer experience. Key responsibilities within this Marketing Manager position include local and regional engagement with customers, identifying trends, opportunities, initiatives and driving targeted marketing promotions, industry exposure and impactful communication.

You will be ambitious, proactive and want to embrace and deliver productive change. You will have an ability to leverage real category insight, be curious about markets and consumers, and therefore produce relatable presentations that have commercial relevance along with innovative ideas that create an impactful experience.

Good presentation skills and being comfortable when presenting to customers is a prerequisite.

How you will Contribute

• Drive local engagement with customers with powerful storytelling, compelling ideas, and meaningful ways to connect.
• Provide market analysis and the generation of insights on markets, new potential customers, brands, food and beverage products and ingredients and associated recommendations for the business.
• To support pro-active and reactive customer-driven projects in a way that significantly increases the chances of generating and/or winning business opportunities.
• To be a strategic partner for the Oceania region by bringing forward local insights, trends and identifying opportunities and relevant initiatives.
• To deliver creative and impactful communication (internally and externally), support marketing communication and owned + industry event management when needed (exhibitions, conferences, customer seminars, communication planning etc.).

What you will need to be successful 

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communication or any other relevant discipline.
• A minimum of 5-8 years of marketing experience, B2B or B2C, in food ingredient industry or food industry FMCG.
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Work well with cross-functional teams and lead project execution at local market level. Ability to interact and influence multiple departments to ensure that customer needs are met.
• Experience in market analysis, communications campaigns, concept development and event management.
• Capability to digest marketing information from numerous sources including data sources, create logical arguments and apply it relevantly to determine direction and future ideas focus.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate market and consumer insights into business opportunities.
• Fluent in English.
• Willingness to commit to travel (20%-25% travel).

How Would You Stand Out?

• Can-do attitude, ambitious, proactive and ready to embrace and deliver change.
• Curious approach and enjoy navigating challenges.
• A passion for the food industry and delivering solutions that matter.

Why Choose Us?

• Multinational exposure and supportive environment.
• Access to learning and development programs.
• Career advancement opportunities.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more