Fragrance Development Manager, Fine Fragrance, Perfumery & Beauty - New York, NY

DSM

3d • $100,000 - $135,000

About The Position

As a Fragrance Development Manager, Fine Fragrance, you’ll shape the future of our clients’ brands by creating compelling, high‑impact fragrances that win in the market. You’ll partner closely with Fine Fragrance perfumers, bringing consumer insights, creative inspiration, and strategic thinking to every brief. With your growth mindset, leadership, and expertise in Fine Fragrance evaluation, you’ll guide olfactive strategy, lead client presentations, and influence key decisions. Technical knowledge, along with experience translating fragrances into line extensions and ancillary categories, is a strong plus.

Requirements

• 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 Fine fragrance, specialty retail and body care evaluation

Nice To Haves

• Technical expertise a plus, along with translating fragrances into different forms

Responsibilities

• Create Fragrance Magic: Develop enchanting fragrances that spell success for dsm-firmenich and our clients' brands
• Be a Trendsetter: Partner with and guide all Fine Fragrance 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 Fine Fragrance space; Work on specialty accounts specifically on total home category - candles and hand soaps
• Collaborate and Lead: Play a key role in defining and executing account strategies; Collaborate across Marketing, Technical Innovation, Consumer Insights, Perfumers, and Sales teams, to lead client presentations with confidence on olfactive strategies

Benefits

• 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
• comprehensive total rewards package, inclusive of annual incentive pay, a retirement savings plan, health care coverage, paid time off, recognition programs and a broad range of other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees