Fragrance Development Manager / Senior - Piscataway, NJ

Fragrance Development Manager / Sr.

Piscataway, NJ, US

On-Site (4 days onsite)

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 our perfumers, offering consumer trends, creative inspirations, and strategic ideas. With a growth mindset, leadership, and expertise in Personal and Body Care 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 value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Create Fragrance Magic: Develop enchanting fragrances that spell success for dsm-firmenich and our clients' brands.
• Be a Trendsetter: Partner with and guide our perfumers by sharing the latest consumer trends, cross-category insights, and untapped client opportunities. Spark their creativity with inspired ideas and fresh starting points.
• Curate Perfection: Select and refine submissions to meet brief parameters, providing well-founded rationale and continuously updating our collection with strategically chosen ideas.
• Harness the Power of Innovation: Utilize cutting-edge internal tools, particularly in Consumer Insights and Technical Innovation, to foster informed and inspired fragrance creation.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Detect and forecast future fragrance and product trends across categories, ensuring we meet the evolving needs within the personal and body care space.
• Collaborate and Lead: Play a key role in defining and executing account strategies. Collaborate across Marketing, Technical Innovation, Consumer Insights, Perfumers, and Sales teams, and lead client presentations with confidence on olfactive strategies.
  
  

Step into a role where your creativity and leadership will shape the scents of tomorrow!

We bring

• Innovation Legacy: We're pioneers in groundbreaking innovation and creative excellence, continuously shaping the future of Perfumery & Beauty.
• Exclusive Access: Dive into our unique ecosystem filled with industry-leading scientists, perfumers, market, and consumer experts, all here to support your ambitious, consumer-centric innovations.
• Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: We believe that collaborating with our customers is the secret sauce to achieving greatness.
• Inspiring Leadership: Our esteemed leadership team is driving the industry forward, offering mentorship and guidance to help you carve out an extraordinary career path.
• Sustainable Core Values: Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, driving our strategy and purpose to bring progress to life and create a brighter future.
• Flexible Work Environment: We empower you to take ownership of your work and outcomes, all within a flexible and supportive work environment.
  
  

Come be a part of something amazing and help us create scents that inspire!

You bring

• Experience Counts: This role values your years of experience and the complexity of your past projects, emphasizing the importance of managing key customers and product categories while showcasing a stellar track record.
• Skills to Shine: Bring your strong communication, leadership, and organizational expertise to the forefront.
• Dynamic Qualities: We seek agility, flexibility, curiosity, a growth mindset, and an insatiable hunger to win.
• What You Need: A Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of experience with Personal and Body care evaluation.
• Title and Rewards: Your title and compensation will match your experience. For an FDM title, you need a minimum of 5 years of experience; for a Sr. FDM, at least 8 years
  
  

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: there’s a place for everyone at dsm-firmenich.

As a committed equal opportunity employer, we ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and fair. We encourage the recruitment of a diverse workforce, representative of the communities in which we work, by using inclusive language, diverse interview panels, diversified sourcing strategies. Selection is based on qualifications, competency, experience, performance history and fit with the team to advance fair and equitable opportunity.

Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, backgrounds, 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.

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.

Please note this is a direct search led by dsm-firmenich. We only accept applications from candidates, not from agencies nor subject to agency’s fees, percentages or similar.