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Job ID:  79227
Date:  Jan 20, 2026
Job function:  Project Management
Experience level:  Experienced Hire
Business:  Perfumery - Fine Fragrance Experience

Fragrance Development Manager,FFE

Job Title: (Associate) Fragrance Development Manager, FFE

City, Country: Shanghai, China

 

As a Fine 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.

 

Your key responsibilities

  • Develop winning fragrances that spells success for dsm-firmenich and our clients' brands
  • Partner with and guide perfumers by sharing laterst consumer trends, cross-category insights, and find untapped opportunities. Spark their creativity with inspired ideas and fresh starting points.
  • Select and refine submissions to meet brief parameters, providing well-founded rationale and continuously updating our collection with strategically chosen ideas.
  • Detect and forecast future fragrance and product trends across categories, ensuring we meet the evolving needs within the Fine Fragrance space.
  • Play a key role in defining and executing account strategies. Collaborate across Marketing, Technical Innovation, Consumer Insights, Perfumers, and Sales, and lead client presentations with confidence on olfactive strategies.
  • Understanding and knowledge on global Fine Fragrance market, with expertise of the market.

 

We offer

  • 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 business value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated. 
  • Empowerment to make meaningful contributions while upholding ethical standards.
  • Recognition and celebration of your efforts and accomplishments.
  • Opportunity to build a career making a significant impact on billions of lives, with the freedom to shape your own path.
  • Dedication to creating better futures for customers, communities, people, and the planet.
  • Responsibility and accountability in living company values and driving sustainable solutions.
  • Supportive environment where individuals are empowered to progress and contribute to meaningful change
  • International FFE team to support and connect with.

 

You bring

  • 3-5 years of experience in Fragrance Development/Scent Design/Evaluation, Fine Fragrance category strongly preferred
  • Bachelor's Degree/University Degree, ISIPCA or Fragrance training preferred.
  • Passion for fragrance industry
  • Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
  • Strong written and verbal communication, presentation skills
  • Digital savviness, great communication, organisation, and project management skills
  • Ability to work well independently and in a group
  • English fluency

 

About dsm-firmenich

At dsm-firmenich, we don’t just meet expectations – we go beyond them.

Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

 

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day. Whether it’s fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that’s better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavor, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

 

And while you’re making a difference, we’ll make sure you’re growing too. With learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here. And your ideas? They’re essential to our future. 

 

Because real progress only happens when we go beyond, together.

 

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement

At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.

 

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.

 

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.

 

And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we’re here to help – just let us know what you need, and we’ll do everything we can to make it work.

 

Agency statement

We’re managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you’re applying as an individual, we’d love to hear from you. We’re not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.

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