Job Summary
As a global leader in fragrance innovation, IFF combines creativity, science, and consumer understanding to harness the power of scent and create meaningful value for consumers and customers worldwide.
As a Marketing Intern within the Fragrances Big Home EAME team, you will play an active role in bringing consumer-centric fragrance solutions to life across the Home Care and Fabric Care categories. You will support day-to-day marketing operations, contribute to customer projects, and assist with strategic initiatives that help drive business growth. Working closely with Marketing Managers and Marketing Analysts, you will help translate customer needs, consumer insights, and emerging market trends into impactful marketing activities that create value for our customers and consumers.
Where You'll Make a Difference
- Support the Marketing Team in day-to-day activities, including product library management and labelling.
- Contribute to the creation of cross-category market reviews alongside the Marketing Analysts and monitor emerging product launches and disruptive brands, including data management and analysis.
- Help develop impactful cross-category trend insights and presentations with the Marketing Analysts.
- Support the creation of customer presentations and identify untapped market opportunities that contribute to business expansion.
- Contribute throughout the new product development process by proposing innovative concepts, ingredients, claims, and formats that address evolving consumer preferences.
- Leverage leading market intelligence platforms (e.g., Mintel, Euromonitor) and AI-powered content generation tools.
- Unleash your creativity by creating mood boards to support fragrance submissions, building compelling storytelling, exploring emerging ingredients and formats, and helping the Marketing Team discover new ways to enhance customer engagement through digital capabilities.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, International Business, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Strong marketing, storytelling, and creative skills, with strong PowerPoint capabilities and the ability to create visually compelling presentations.
- Excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.
- Customer-focused and results-driven mindset, with a proactive and action-oriented approach.
- Effective planning and organizational skills, with the ability to set priorities, manage competing demands, and deliver high-quality work.
- Digitally savvy, comfortable working with modern digital platforms and AI-powered content creation tools.
- Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills, and comfortable working in a diverse, international environment across cultures and functions.
- Motivated and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills, a high level of flexibility, adaptability, and a service-minded attitude.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen and awareness of business objectives, with the ability to thrive in a complex, fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
Why Choose Us?
- Gain hands-on experience through an internship with a global, highly diverse organization, offering meaningful exposure to the world of fragrance marketing and valuable opportunities for growth.
- Be part of a welcoming and collaborative work environment, where an open culture, creativity, and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do.
- Benefit from dedicated coaching and mentorship, with a strong focus on supporting your personal and professional development throughout your internship journey.
- Discover how the Marketing function operates within a leading Fragrance House and experience firsthand how cross-functional teams come together to bring ideas to life.
- Understand the creative process from the customer brief to the go to market strategy
This is a full-time position (40 hours per week) in the office at the Creative Center in Hilversum for a minimum period of six months.
Please submit your applications in English.
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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 or Master's degree in Marketing, International Business, Business Administration, or a related field
- Strong marketing, storytelling, and creative skills
- Strong PowerPoint capabilities and ability to create visually compelling presentations
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
- Customer-focused and results-driven mindset
- Proactive and action-oriented approach
- Effective planning and organizational skills
- Ability to prioritize, manage competing demands, and deliver high-quality work
- Digital fluency and comfort with modern digital platforms and AI-powered content creation tools
- Fluency in English with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a diverse, international environment across cultures and functions
- Collaborative interpersonal skills, flexibility, adaptability, and service-minded attitude
- Commercial acumen and awareness of business objectives
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
