[Hiring] North America Strategic Marketing Manager @IFF

Role Description

Are you ready to turn complex market signals into clear stories and practical opportunities that help customers and commercial teams act? The Manager, Strategic Marketing plays a critical role in shaping and activating North America Health Sciences growth priorities through:

• Strategic storytelling
• Category development
• Customer engagement
• Commercialization planning
• Go-to-market execution support

This role sits at the intersection of Market & Consumer Insights, Commercial Marketing, Innovation, Sales, and Customer Engagement. The Manager will:

• Identify meaningful market signals
• Develop customer-ready stories
• Support innovation initiatives
• Help bring North America growth priorities to life through strategic storytelling and commercial activation

The role is designed for a high-potential professional seeking to expand from insights generation into strategic marketing, storytelling, customer engagement, and commercial strategy.

Where You'll Make a Difference:

• Partner with Commercial Marketing to develop category, consumer, and growth narratives aligned to strategic pillars, go-to-market priorities, and customer needs
• Translate consumer, market, customer, and competitive intelligence into clear implications, recommendations, and opportunity frameworks
• Own development of category stories, customer-facing narratives, thought leadership content, and opportunity frameworks supporting North America growth priorities
• Support and, with development, lead selected customer innovation sessions and workshop workstreams
• Monitor category and consumer shifts, competitive activity, and emerging whitespace
• Lead selected strategic marketing initiatives, including commercialization planning, launch support, growth-platform activation, and customer engagement programs
• Support campaign and program performance analysis
• Collaborate across Sales, Innovation, Product Management, Science, Market & Consumer Insights, and Regional Marketing
• Demonstrate initiative and end-to-end ownership
• Own commercialization and launch support for select North America Health Sciences initiatives
• Serve as strategic marketing lead for assigned category growth platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Consumer Insights, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Approximately 4 to 7 years of experience in consumer insights, market research, business intelligence, marketing, category management, or a related function
• Experience working with consumer, customer, market, competitive, or syndicated intelligence
• Demonstrated ability to move beyond reporting by identifying implications and forming recommendations
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation development skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-directed problem solving and strong initiative
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Ability to build productive cross-functional relationships

Requirements

• Experience supporting customer presentations, strategic workshops, commercial teams, or go-to-market initiatives
• Experience in health, nutrition, consumer packaged goods, life sciences, or another science-led, customer-focused industry
• Curiosity about emerging wellness spaces

Benefits

• We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions
• We value the diverse mosaic of 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