Description
Our client are a leading US based fragrance house seeking a Fragrance Development Manager to join their team at their US HQ.
Fragrance Development Manager (FDM) is the Project Brief lead for all Client briefs from inception to completion. The FDM will work directly with other members of Fragrance Development, Perfumery, Marketing, Applications, Regulatory, the Library Administrator and other various departments in order to ensure that project briefs are completed within the allotted time frame.
The FDM will direct all aspects of the fragrance development process, ensuring compatibility with the requested odor profile, customer parameters, regulatory compliance, application samples, pricing structure, stability protocol, etc.
The Role
• Work in a team environment to develop trend collections, capsule collections, and library subset fragrances
• Conduct market research and identify trends
• Translate Consumer Market Insight research into olfactory submissions for Clients.
• Fragrance development for specific customer needs
• Selecting fragrances according to the given brief guidelines
• Entering data relevant to project briefs into various systems
• Write olfactory inspiration and fragrance descriptions linked to Marketing trends, when applicable, based on region/market and for the purpose of partners for knowledge-building and sharing.
• Attend regularly scheduled olfactive analysis meetings to review new products with Evaluation team
• Evaluate fragrances and provide constructive feedback to Perfumery team
• Coordinate with Applications team on specific project needs (stability, weight loss testing, etc.)
• Understand assigned account demographics, preferred odor profiles, Regulatory and sample needs
• Communicate with Sales on mutually assigned accounts to realize account growth potential
We are looking for a passionate and creative individual who is ideally bringing 3+ years of fragrance development/evaluation experience working within a fragrance house or on the client side.
The role is 5 days a week onsite.
