Sales Support Executive

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

A Sales Support Executive with the global leader in the creation of Fragrance & Beauty and Taste & Wellbeing and an essential member of our Fine Fragrance Sales team for the SAMEA region - Your future position?

Due to increased business activity and project pipelines, we are currently looking to expand our small, friendly, and fabulous Sales team for the South Asia, Middle East & Africa (SAMEA) region and hiring an additional Sales Support Executive.

Based in our Dubai office in Media City and reporting to the Commercial Director of SAMEA, you will play an important role in the team, providing important support and developing an intimate understanding of Givaudan briefing and project management systems. You will support essential administrative projects and report to the team and the broader business. You will also actively build and maintain professional relationships with our teams and customers in the region.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, can deliver value, and are skilled at fostering excellent relationships!

In this exciting role, with a can-do’ mindset, you will -

Support our business:

• Manage administrative tasks, including project and sample requests, from initiation to completion and preparation for submission.
• Support the business for sourcing market products, information, and creative and technical needs.
• Prepare and maintain price quotations and ensure accuracy on our internal systems.
  
  

Position our fragrance solutions:

• Analyse data to identify meaningful insights.
• Manage priorities for yourself and the sales team.
• Create easy-to-understand reports and presentations.
  
  

Improve the bottom line:

• Be an essential team member by coordinating and updating critical reports and tracking tools.
• Maintain data accuracy on reports and manage timelines.
• Create daily, weekly, and monthly dashboards and support project management and data reporting.
  
  

Service our customers:

• Respond to all enquiries using systems knowledge, creative investigation, and follow-up.
• Provide the business team with information on customers requests, insights, and communications.
• Use your skills to support the Key Account Managers deliver to our customers.
  
  

You?

Are you someone who wants to shape your world? Who excels in being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes -

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• 3-4 years of relevant work experience, ideally in B2B Sales support role(s) in international work environments in the region.
• Preference for candidates already based in the UAE.
• Excellent oral and written proficiency in the English language. Additional proficiency in other languages like Arabic or French would be advantageous but not mandatory.
• Working knowledge of ERP’s like SAP would be advantageous.
• Good project management skills.
• Team player and comfortable with diversity.
  
  

Our Benefits -

• Attractive package with benefits.
• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• A creative team environment that will inspire you.
  
  

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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