Marketing Intern Scent

Ready to kick-start your marketing career with hands-on experience in a global organization, where you'll turn consumer insights and market trends into impactful business opportunities?

As a global leader in fragrance innovation, IFF combines creativity, science, and consumer understanding to harness the power of scent and create meaningful value for consumers and customers worldwide.

As a Marketing Intern within the Fragrances Big Home EAME team, you will play an active role in bringing consumer-centric fragrance solutions to life across the Home Care and Fabric Care categories. You will support day-to-day marketing operations, contribute to customer projects, and assist with strategic initiatives that help drive business growth. Working closely with Marketing Managers and Marketing Analysts, you will help translate customer needs, consumer insights, and emerging market trends into impactful marketing activities that create value for our customers and consumers.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Support the Marketing Team in day-to-day activities, including product library management and labelling.
• Contribute to the creation of cross-category market reviews alongside the Marketing Analysts and monitor emerging product launches and disruptive brands, including data management and analysis.
• Help develop impactful cross-category trend insights and presentations with the Marketing Analysts.
• Support the creation of customer presentations and identify untapped market opportunities that contribute to business expansion.
• Contribute throughout the new product development process by proposing innovative concepts, ingredients, claims, and formats that address evolving consumer preferences.
• Leverage leading market intelligence platforms (e.g., Mintel, Euromonitor) and AI-powered content generation tools.
• Unleash your creativity by creating mood boards to support fragrance submissions, building compelling storytelling, exploring emerging ingredients and formats, and helping the Marketing Team discover new ways to enhance customer engagement through digital capabilities.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, International Business, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong marketing, storytelling, and creative skills, with strong PowerPoint capabilities and the ability to create visually compelling presentations.
• Excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.
• Customer-focused and results-driven mindset, with a proactive and action-oriented approach.
• Effective planning and organizational skills, with the ability to set priorities, manage competing demands, and deliver high-quality work.
• Digitally savvy, comfortable working with modern digital platforms and AI-powered content creation tools.
• Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills, and comfortable working in a diverse, international environment across cultures and functions.
• Motivated and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills, a high level of flexibility, adaptability, and a service-minded attitude.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen and awareness of business objectives, with the ability to thrive in a complex, fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

Why Choose Us?

• Gain hands-on experience through an internship with a global, highly diverse organization, offering meaningful exposure to the world of fragrance marketing and valuable opportunities for growth.
• Be part of a welcoming and collaborative work environment, where an open culture, creativity, and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do.
• Benefit from dedicated coaching and mentorship, with a strong focus on supporting your personal and professional development throughout your internship journey.
• Discover how the Marketing function operates within a leading Fragrance House and experience firsthand how cross-functional teams come together to bring ideas to life.
• Understand the creative process from the customer brief to the go to market strategy

This is a full-time position (40 hours per week) in the office at the Creative Center in Hilversum for a minimum period of six months.

Please submit your applications in English.

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

About Us

At IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart. As the global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, we deliver groundbreaking, sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products – advancing wellness, delighting the senses and enhancing the human experience. We value an inclusive, creative workplace where all individuals can thrive and do their best work. We consider all qualified candidates equally and based on merit, without regard to religion, ethnicity, national origin, race, age, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or disability.