Fragrance Manager

Job Description

[1] Perfume Development & amp; Evaluations - Responsible for strategic development of fragrances for all brands and innovative development projects for Hair Care, Skin Care, Male Grooming for India & International Markets - Responsible for understanding and decoding olfactive expectations of the consumers. - Creating (fragrance technical) briefs, directing the relevant Fragrance House(s) to develop winning fragrances, evaluating fragrances/ modifications in the base. - Provide assistance to team in Understanding and Evaluating new technologies in fragrance & its benefits to product. - Responsible for arranging the fragrance consumer tests for the region. Team building, Mentoring - Competition benchmarking and regular market scans for olfactive trends. Exploring & Developing new testing methodologies/protocols, - Setting up a olfaction panels - Robust expert evaluation of data with prediction for consumer likeability - Liaison with Marketing/Brand Development/ Mfg./ Supply Chain teams - for executions - Knowledge management - Fragrance trends benchmarking [India & Global] - Consumer interactions for fragrance evaluations Skills & Competencies : - Fragrance evaluation/ olfaction skills - Creative & Analytical writ perfumery formulations - Domain knowledge - Fragrance chemistry - Application to personal care or related adjacencies - Ability to lead projects in area of consumer & fragrance - Aware/ appreciate global trends in fragrances - Knowledge of principles in chemistry/ life sciences/ psychology - Co-ordination & planning - Sensitive to business environment around - Growth & entrepreneurial mind-set, Risk takin Role & responsibilities Preferred candidate profile Perks and benefits