Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Taste: Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success. Be part of a strategic, agile, and open-minded team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
As an Account Executive you will receive and process customer orders, inquiries, and/or complaints covering items or products ordered. Maintain an ongoing relationship with select customers and sales staff.
This role is for Saudi Nationals based in Riyadh KSA
Where You’ll Make a Difference
•Support in building knowledge of specific market, customer environment and specific customer activities, strategies, brands, markets, consumers via all available sources
•Build relationships with customer decision makers/influencers by holding regular meetings
•Develop understanding of customer decision making criteria
•Timely and accurately document customer visits and insights
•Communicate client supply chain objectives, processes, organization, score
•Consult with customer service on key customer supply issues and agree on communication /implementation plan with support of line management for more complex issues/solutions
• Propose optimal working capital management (payment terms agreements, monthly awareness of AR status and support/intervene when required) with
Qualify business opportunities with input from Innovation, Creation and Design (IC&D) and Cost to Serve guidelines with support of line manager
• Promote bank/ product portfolio
•Provide detailed project insight (Customer/ Internal perspective) to the team in order to clearly define brief parameters and capture them in Project management system
What Makes You the Right Fit
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Business, Marketing, Sciences or Engineering
• Ability to understand basic financial concepts/processes (pricing/margin/forecasting)
• Curiosity and passion with strong interests in sales, product development, consumers, and market understanding (Marketing/R&D/CI)
• Basic fragrance knowledge and olfactive skills. Where applicable, basic understanding of skin science and biology.
• Minimum 1-3 Years experience in sales, sales service, product development, account planning or marketing preferably fragrance, cosmetics, FMCG, flavors, chemical or ingredients industries
How Would You Stand Out?
- Good communicator with negotiation and presentation skills
- Ability to cross collaborate with internal & external teams
- Self-driven with a track record for delivering results
- Collaborative and demonstrated team player
- Digital savvy with an ability to leverage online resources
Why Choose Us?
- Professional onboarding process
- Flexibility, agility in approach to project execution
- Ability to work with multiple disciplines in a dynamic, global environment
- Training opportunities
- Learning and development programs from day one
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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree preferably in Business, Marketing, Sciences or Engineering
- Minimum 1-3 Years experience in sales, sales service, product development, account planning or marketing
- Basic fragrance knowledge and olfactive skills
- Ability to understand basic financial concepts/processes
- Good communicator with negotiation and presentation skills
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
