Product & Fragrance Development - Associate Product Developer
About The Position
The Associate Product Developer supports product and fragrance development in partnership with the manager. The role owns low-complexity programs, including timeline management and execution with vendors, and communicates with fragrance houses and contract manufacturers. It also supports sampling, evaluation meetings, consumer testing, on-site development, competitive research, data management, reporting, and cross-functional relationship building. The position provides exposure to fragrance-house and vendor briefs, development workflows and milestones, and product and fragrance fundamentals.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the manager to develop products and fragrances and help brainstorm new ideas.
- Manage timelines and execution with vendors for low-complexity programs.
- Communicate with fragrance houses and contract manufacturers about programs.
- Distribute samples to the team and brand for evaluation.
- Manage, organize, and maintain product closets and libraries.
- Follow up with vendors.
- Manage execution and processing of systems workflow.
- Assist with and support setup for evaluation meetings and presentations.
- Provide sampling support for consumer testing.
- Support on-site development with contract fillers and fragrance houses.
- Track base and fragrance submissions and participate in submission evaluations.
- Research fragrance market trends and patterns for innovative forms.
- Enter and maintain competitive information in databases, libraries, and reports.
- Purchase competitive products as directed.
- Develop awareness of the brand and relevant competitive store environments.
- Update reports and systems accurately.
- Build understanding of the fragrance-house and vendor brief process and the end-to-end workflow and development milestones.
- Build cross-functional relationships with internal peers across VS&Co and with the brand.
- Initiate and maintain professional relationships with external vendors.
- Identify continuous learning opportunities for personal development and learn product and fragrance fundamentals, including vocabulary.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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