Internship - Taste & Wellbeing Regional Innovation

An internship opportunity with our fabulous Taste & Wellbeing Regional Innovation team supporting exciting Category Management project activities in our Dubai Media City office - Your future position?

We are hiring an ‘Intern’ for our Taste & Wellbeing Regional Innovation team for 3 months (with a possibility of extension) and support some of our exciting projects and initiatives. 

You will be based in our Regional Head Office in Dubai Media City and report to the Taste & Wellbeing Regional Category Manager for Snacks & Savoury. You will learn, gather insights, and support the team for exciting core project activities for Category Management for the Taste & Wellbeing Regional Innovation team across several product categories like Snacks, Savory, Beverage, and Sweets.

You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. With its heritage stretching back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes.

Our passion is to collaborate with customers and partners to develop game-changing innovations in the food & beverage, fragrance and beauty industries. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers in the region have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and curiosity to your daily job.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity.

In this exciting role, you will - 

• Analyse food and beverage product categories and brands to identify trends, competitive dynamics, and brand challenges, as well as make well-informed commercial and marketing strategy recommendations for the team.
• Assist the Category Marketing Manager on specific projects, compiling, consolidating, and uploading information into our internal portals.
• Learn about the latest developments in food and beverage trends in the global and local markets.
• Have access to data (e.g., Mintel, Global data, Euromonitor and FMCG Gurus), Givaudan internal company tools and consumer research to expand your knowledge in the high-paced food and beverages industry!
• Work closely with local markets to collect, upload, and share information. 
• Support Product Managers on specific innovation projects and roll-outs involving sampling and documentation activities.