Assoc. Fragrance Development Director

Job Title: Associate Fragrance Development Director

Location: Mumbai

In this role you ll drive mutual success by developing winning fragrances for the category assigned, for our clients brands. You ll be a guided partner to perfumers, offering consumer trends, creative inspirations, and strategic ideas. With a growth mindset, leadership, and expertise in fragrance development and evaluation, you ll shape olfactive strategies and lead client presentations for a dynamic and rewarding career.

At dsm-firmenich, being a force for good is not optional. Diversity, Equity Inclusion is a shared responsibility woven into our daily work to not only benefit our People, Customers Communities but also drive business value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Win business by managing pro-active and reactive development of fragrance to answer clients briefs. Support Sales effort (olfactive presentations olfactive brand servicing). Build organization capability, sustains talent pipeline by starting training Assistant FDMs.
• Gains, defends, and revitalizes business by developing olfactive vision for brands/category (usually at local or regional level) and generating fragrance solutions.Knows the clients key brands (history and current) cross-category, from a marketing and olfactive perspectives, and constantly seek for synergies with working category.
• Builds strong network and partnerships with other FDMs, Perfumers, Sales, CI and Marketing teams.Identify business opportunities (pro-actively) and executes relevant action plans.
• Fragrance development evaluation and collection build up.Leads inter key projects and participates regularly to experts panels across categories.
• Detects olfactive trends, needs for category (Marketing insight), analyzes and decodes consumer data and turns them into concrete fragrance solutions.
• Participates to category strategy definition and execution (across functions: CMS, applied research, MR, perfumers, sales).

We bring:

• A rich history and a promising future of bold scientific innovation and passionate creation with our customers.
• A space to grow by encouraging and supporting curiosity and an open mindset.
• The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose.
• Barrier-free communities within our organization where every employee is equally valued and respected - regardless of their background, beliefs, or identity.
• A firm belief that working together with our customers is the key to achieving great things.
• An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future.

You bring :

• University degree in related field.
• Experience - six or more consecutive years within fragrance development with experience in Skin Cleansing fragrances preferable.
• Creative strategic thinker, with a growth mindset and curiosity to learn adapt to change.
• Olfactively trained and proven track record of successful fragrance launches.
• Digital savviness, great communication, organisation, and project management skills;
• Ability to work well independently and in a group