Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success.
The role is based in Hilversum, Netherlands (hybrid role). Be part of a creative, customer-focused, and collaborative team where together we can make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
As part of the Customer Experience Marketing team, you will support customer engagement activities across the Nordic region by translating consumer trends and market insights into practical marketing initiatives. This role is ideal for someone with experience in marketing, market intelligence, category insights, or consumer research within the food and beverage industry.
Where You'll Make a Difference
- Monitor consumer trends, category developments, and new product launches across Nordic food and beverage markets.
- Analyze market data and insights from sources such as Mintel, Euromonitor, Nielsen, and AI Palette.
- Support the development of customer-facing presentations, reports, and marketing materials.
- Help identify growth opportunities by connecting market trends with customer needs.
- Collaborate with commercial teams to understand customer priorities and market opportunities.
- Contribute to local marketing initiatives supporting category and business growth.
- Support customer innovation projects with consumer and market insights.
- Assist in organizing customer events, workshops, and engagement activities.
- Travel occasionally within the Nordic region to support customer and marketing activities.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Experience in marketing, consumer insights, category management, market research, or a related field.
- Knowledge of the Nordic food and beverage market and consumer landscape.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Food Science, or a related field.
- Strong analytical skills and interest in translating data into actionable insights.
- Experience working with market intelligence or consumer insight tools is an advantage.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and functions.
- Fluency in English and at least one Nordic language (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, or Finnish).
- Comfortable working in a dynamic international environment.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience within a food and beverage manufacturing environment.
- Existing network within the Nordic food and beverage market.
- Basic graphic design or content creation skills.
Why Choose Us?
- Work in a collaborative, international, and innovation-driven environment.
- Gain exposure to leading consumer insight and market intelligence platforms.
- Opportunity to work closely with Nordic customers and commercial teams.
- Hybrid working model with flexibility to balance business and personal needs.
- Learning and development opportunities to support your growth.
- Be part of a company shaping the future of food, beverage, and nutrition.
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
- Proven experience within the Nordic food and beverage market.
- Experience working with Nordic customers, retailers, manufacturers, distributors, or commercial teams.
- 5-7 years of marketing experience, preferably within a B2B food and beverage manufacturing environment.
- Master's Degree in Marketing, Business, Food Innovation, or a related field.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to transform data into actionable business insights.
- Experience in consumer research, market intelligence, trend analysis, and category management.
- Experience using Mintel, Euromonitor, AI Palette, Nielsen or other insight platforms.
- Proven ability to develop impactful marketing content and collaborate with external agencies and internal stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and networking skills across diverse markets and cultures.
- Fluency in English and at least one Nordic language (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, or Finnish), both written and spoken.
- Existing network within the Nordic food and beverage industry.
- Experience with customer experience marketing, innovation commercialization, or new product development.
- Basic graphic design skills and experience creating visual marketing content.
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.
