Regional Marketing Director, Food Ingredients, Greater Asia

2 days ago

Singapore INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES (GREATER ASIA) PTE. LTD. Full time
Roles & Responsibilities

At IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart. We make scientific discoveries, craft exciting sensory experiences and drive business success and growth. Our mission is to support healthier, happier lives for both people and the planet.

If you are passionate about Food Ingredients and have a unique approach to driving growth and empowering teams, join our high-growth region as the Regional Marketing Director, Food Ingredients, Greater Asia

Your Focus

As Regional Marketing Director, you will manage a regional marketing team to successfully develop strategies for the region. You will ensure the team successfully develops strategies while ensuring best-in-class marketing. With the delivery of value and insights, creativity, and engagement you are expected to build stronger customer relationships and generate growth. You will leverage consumer insights, market data, technical knowledge and business intelligence to lead the team in efforts to support the financial performance of the region. You will bring strong communication and influencing skills to address challenges in a fast-moving environment.

Close collaboration and alignment with the Regional Sales General Manager is essential, and you will be part of the regional leadership team to help achieve the strategic growth objectives of the Greater Asia region. The role will see you connect and align with other leaders in the Global Food Ingredients organization to ensure the execution of technologies, products, and value propositions are delivered effectively to the market and customers. Demonstrating ability to become the trusted partner of multiple internal stakeholders (e.g. product management, sales, innovation, communication) will be key to gain commitment at all levels in the organization. You will be expected to turn plans into actions and to engage customers by developing and presenting insightful marketing content.

This is a Singapore based position and part of the Global Food Ingredients Marketing team. The role will report directly to the Global Director of Food Ingredients Marketing based in the U.S. This is a hybrid remote position.

How you will Lead and Contribute

  • Build strong knowledge of our business, portfolio and regional market dynamics, bringing forward relevant insights and recommendations that impact business direction and decisions.
  • Build strong team collaboration and support to ensure team is focused on delivering according to plan.
  • Recruitment of new talent, performance management with constant focus on developing the team.
  • Lead the team in the development of annual growth Plans. Build on industry insights, business strategies and overall capabilities to define key initiatives, tactics and resources required to grow and defend IFF business Greater Asia.
  • Ensure the execution and roll out of the Greater Asia Growth plans, monitor and report progress to the Greater Asia leadership teams on a quarterly basis. Track progress against key financials targets, opportunity pipeline targets and milestones for key initiatives. Highlight corrective actions required and decisions to be made.
  • Provide leadership and support to the regional marketing team, ensuring activation of the IFF brand to drive value and differentiation across the customer journey in a compelling, creative and inspiring way.
  • Ensure we deliver the content, ideas and insights that shape and pull together the strategic story and engagement with customers.
  • Partner with internal customers / stakeholders to ensure strategies align to overall business objectives.

What you will need to be successful

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Sales or related field. Master's or MBA preferred.
  • At least 10-12 years of Food & Beverage industry and team management experience.
  • Senior, executive level presentation skills with ability to communicate and engage at all levels within the organization.
  • Ability to work effectively with global, regional and local teams in a multicultural and fast changing environment.
  • Create an environment that fosters continuous learning and ensures development opportunities.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the components of financial acumen and strong ability to analyze data, create insights and recommend actions based on findings.
  • Ability to see the "bigger picture" and translate vision and strategy into understandable goals, priorities and challenges.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, strong team player.
  • Problem solving skills with the ability to influence.
  • Strong prioritization, planning, attention to detail, time management and organization skills.
  • A team builder with a positive attitude
  • High proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel.
  • Willing and able to travel up to 20% or more.

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

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