Consumer Insights Associate - FF (CDD)

Job Summary
Are you passionate about understanding consumer behavior and transforming insights into impactful business recommendations?

Join IFF’s Fine Fragrance Consumer Insights team and help shape future fragrance innovations by delivering meaningful consumer understanding across the EAME region.

The role is based in our Fine Fragrance Creative Center in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France .

Together, we can turn consumer understanding into creative inspiration and business growth.

Where You'll Make a Difference

- Support Consumer Insights projects for the Fine Fragrance category across global and regional customers.
- Design and coordinate qualitative and quantitative consumer research programs aligned with business objectives.
- Partner with Commercial, Creative, and Marketing teams to define research objectives, hypotheses, and key learning needs.
- Generate actionable consumer insights to identify growth opportunities and support strategic decision-making.
- Manage external research agencies, ensuring methodologies, timelines, and deliverables meet required standards.
- Conduct data analysis and leverage statistical tools to interpret consumer research results.
- Build compelling reports, presentations, and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Support fragrance development initiatives by translating consumer feedback into creative opportunities.
- Monitor project progress, timelines, and budgets to ensure successful execution.
- Collaborate closely with the Senior Consumer Insights Group Lead and cross-functional teams to drive business growth.

What Makes You the Right Fit

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Marketing, Market Research, Business, Statistics, Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, or a related field.
- Minimum 1-4 years of experience in Consumer Insights, Market Research, or Consumer Research.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end research projects, from design and execution to analysis and presentation of results.
- Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to transform complex data into actionable insights.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in both French and English.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational skills and effective stakeholder management capabilities.

How Would You Stand Out?

- Genuine passion for understanding consumer behavior and market dynamics.
- Ability to bridge quantitative findings with qualitative insights to deliver a holistic consumer perspective.
- Creative mindset with a willingness to explore innovative research approaches and testing methodologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills and sound business acumen.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and eager to learn.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional and multicultural teams.
- Experience within the fragrance, beauty, luxury, FMCG, or consumer goods industries would be considered an advantage.

Why Choose Us?

- Opportunity to join a global leader in fragrance innovation.
- Exposure to international projects and leading Fine Fragrance brands.
- Collaborative environment bringing together Consumer Insights, Creative, Marketing, and Commercial experts.
- Continuous learning and development opportunities.
- Inclusive and diverse culture where innovation and individual contributions are valued.

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