Fragrance Development Manager

Happy to present an excellent career opportunity with a leading fragrance manufacturing company.

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JOB PURPOSE

In this role you will be the fragrance expert for our customers and categories with the overall responsibility for answering customer’s and proactive projects with the best and most suitable fragrances within the parameters of the project.

In this exciting role, you will;

Fragrance Development:

• Develop the olfactory strategy for customers, markets, categories, and guide the Perfumery teams.

• Manage multiple briefs from customers.

• Develop or select fragrances according to given brief guidelines.

• Establish fragrances to be tested and coordinate with the Consumer Market Insights team.

• Contribute to the olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative development.

• Work with the labs for testing product stability.

Positioning and Marketing:

• Anticipate market tastes; work with marketing colleagues on concept generation.

• Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customers for knowledge-building and sharing.

• Conduct customer presentations/interactions.

• Write fragrance descriptions linked to marketing trends.

Project Management:

• Manage the project pipeline of customer briefs and other internal or projects.

• Ensure efficient execution of projects with a focus on improving the win rate, customer engagement, and speed of response.

Customer Engagement:

• Contribute to win briefs by selecting suitable fragrances to meet customer needs.

• Actively participate in meeting customers and the preparation for customer visits.

• Proactively provide the Sales/Key Accounts team with inputs for their account development plans.

Your professional profile includes

· A Bachelor or University Degree in a relevant discipline

· Experience in Fragrances Evaluation in any segment and experience having developed winning fragrances

· Excellent oral and written proficiency in the English language

· Evaluation/Application skills: Knowledge of important consumer products categories, product design principles, advanced product and technical knowledge (innovations, manufacturing, stability), ability to dissect a fragrance, offer creative ideas within the project's scope

· Consumer understanding: Have experience with market insights, protocols, practices, and a broad understanding of consumers

· Project Management skills: Manage the time of self and the team to contribute to the successful execution of projects

· Excellent presentations skills