Fragrance Development Manager Fine Fragrance

As a Fragrance Development Manager, you’ll drive mutual success by developing winning fragrances for our clients’ brands. You’ll be a guided partner to Fine Fragrance perfumers, offering consumer trends, creative inspirations, and strategic ideas. With a growth mindset, leadership, and expertise in Fine Fragrance 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, benefiting to our People, Customers & Communities and driving business value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Fragrance Development Cycle: Lead the full fragrance development cycle for all assigned Fine Fragrance accounts, managing all aspects of the fragrance development project from brief to adoption.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with Perfumers, Technical Development Teams, Marketing, Consumer Insights, and Commercial teams to deliver beneficial solutions for our clients.
• Winning Fragrance Themes: Deliver winning fragrance themes that meet our customers’ expectations and align with consumer needs based on data analysis where available.
• Trend Awareness: Maintain a vast and up-to-date awareness of scented products in the Fine Fragrance category to identify olfactive trends and opportunities that can be turned into concrete customer solutions.
• Support and Evaluation: Support on-site Perfumers and FDD with Global Fine Fragrance Evaluations.
• Development Partnership: Act as the Development Partner with Sales, co-creating fragrance strategies, brainstorming ideas, and nurturing client relationships.
• Olfactive Strategies: Build sound olfactive strategies based on consumer insights.
  
  

We Bring

• Innovation and Creation: A rich history and a promising future of bold scientific innovation and passionate creation with our customers.
• Purposeful Impact: The chance to play a key role in our purpose to improve the quality of life of our workforce, our families, our local communities, and society at large.
• Dynamic Team: The chance to work within a dynamic, agile, and multinational team.
• Growth Space: A space to grow by encouraging and supporting curiosity and an open mindset.
• Sustainability: The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose.
• Flexible Work Environment: A flexible work environment that empowers people to take accountability for their work and own the outcome.
• Competitive Pay and Benefits: Competitive pay, career growth opportunities, and outstanding benefit programs.
  
  

You Bring

• Experience: At least 5 consecutive years within fragrance development, preferably with experience in Fine Fragrance.
• Education: A University degree is a must.
• Language Skills: Must be fluent in English and French; Arabic is a plus.
• Olfactive Training: Finalized a Olfactive training, a test will be part of the selection proces.
• Track Record: A proven track record of successful fragrance launches.
• Creative and Strategic Thinking: A creative and strategic thinker with a growth mindset and curiosity to learn and adapt to change.
• Digital Savviness: Great communication, organization, and project management skills.
• Independence and Teamwork: Ability to work well independently and in a group.
  
  

Our application process

Please apply online by uploading your CV.on our careerportal, latest Nov 3rd 2024.

If you have any questions, please reach out to David van der Velden, Talent Acquisition Lead ([email protected]).

Equal opportunities commitment

dsm-firmenich is fully dedicated to inclusion because when people feel engaged and empowered, their creativity and innovation drives unprecedented progress. We aim to build a workplace where opportunity really is equal, so everyone can thrive. We do not discriminate: (here,) there’s a place for everyone with us.

dsm-firmenich is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Our people are as diverse as our customers. For us that includes a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable support for disabled applicants in our recruiting process. Should you need assistance, and are comfortable to share this, please let us know.

About Dsm-firmenich

As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. With our comprehensive range of solutions, with natural and renewable ingredients and renowned science and technology capabilities, we work to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. dsm-firmenich is a Swiss-Dutch company, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in almost 60 countries and revenues of more than €12 billion. With a diverse, worldwide team of nearly 30,000 employees, we bring progress to life every day, everywhere, for billions of people.

www.dsm-firmenich.com