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Job ID:  74677
Date:  Mar 10, 2025
Company Facility
Job function:  Other
Experience level:  Experienced Hire
Business:  Perfumery - Regional Consumer Brands

Fragrance Development Manager-Princeton, NJ.

Fragrance Development Manager
Princeton, NJ, US
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 the Beauty Team, offering consumer trends, creative inspirations, and strategic ideas.  With a growth mindset, leadership, and expertise in 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 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.

 

Your key responsibilities

  • Develop winning fragrances for mutual success of dsm -Firmenich and clients’ brands
    • Beauty – Hair Care, Skin/Body Care, Deoderant
  • Partner, guide and support all Consumer Products perfumers by bringing them: consumer trends and data; cross-category info; client white space opportunities; creative idea inspirations; collecting starting points.
  • Select submissions adapted to brief parameters, provide rationale and feed our fragrance collection with updated and strategically selected ideas.
  • Incorporate the use of internal tools to practice informed creation, in particular Consumer Insights and Technical Innovation tools.
  • Detect and forecast future olfactive and product trends within the Beauty segment.
  • Participate to account strategy definition and execution (collaborate across functions: Marketing, Technical Innovation, CI, Perfumers, Sales) and be prepared to lead client presentations on olfactive strategy.

 
We bring

  • A rich history and a promising future of bold scientific innovation and passionate creation with our customers.
  • A culture that prioritizes safety and well-being, both physically and mentally.
  • A flexible work environment that empowers people to take accountability for their work and own the outcome.
  • Barrier-free communities within our organization where every employee is equally valued and respected – regardless of their background, beliefs, or identity.
  • An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future.
  • We offer competitive pay, career growth opportunities, and outstanding benefit programs.

 
You bring

  • Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in Fragrance Evaluation.  
  • This level position is driven by the number of years and complexity, importance of assigned customers and product categories, as well as a successful track record.
  • Strong communications, leadership and organizational skills. 
  • Agility, flexibility, curiosity, a growth mindset and hunger to win.

 

 

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.  

 

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