Sr. Fragrance Development Manager, GCB NAM-Princeton, NJ.

dsm-firmenich • Princeton, NJ

24d

About The Position

As a Senior Fragrance Development Manager, you’ll play a key role in creating standout fragrances that inspire our clients. Bringing a growth mindset, strong leadership, and expertise in Air/Home Care evaluation, you’ll collaborate closely with our perfumers to shape compelling olfactive visions and forward‑thinking development strategies. In this dynamic role, you’ll anticipate business needs, spark innovation, and help drive shared success across every project.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in fragrance development
• Track record in Air/Home Care
• Winning team spirit and strategic thinking
• Consumer Insight experience
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Win/Defend business profitably by leading pro-active and reactive fragrance development projects of major size & strategic importance and by developing olfactive vision for the brand at regional & global levels.
• Partner, guide and support perfumers by bringing them consumer trends and data, cross-category information, client white space opportunities, creative idea inspirations, and collection starting points.
• Collaborate with Perfumers, Technical Development Teams, Marketing, Consumer Insights and Commercial teams to deliver beneficial solutions for our clients.
• Incorporate and leverage maximum use of internal tools to practice informed creation, such as Consumer Insights and Technical Innovation tools.
• Lead & coordinate global fragrance development network for your account by bringing vision, strategy and focus and communicating efficiently internally and externally.
• Define, drive, and implement relevant action plans mobilizing regional FDMs, perfumers and any other relevant functions.
• Work with Consumer Insights to ensure a testing plan is in place and executed to identify winning candidates, integrating learnings into development process.
• Support sales effort, interacting with clients on weekly basis, at any level of management, building strategic working relationships, delivering impactful presentations to clients and acting as an olfactive advisor when required.

Benefits

• Unique career paths across health, nutrition and beauty - explore what drives you and get the support to make it happen
• A chance to impact millions of consumers every day – sustainability embedded in all we do
• A science led company, cutting edge research and creativity everywhere – from biotech breakthroughs to sustainability game-changers, you’ll work on what’s next
• Growth that keeps up with you – you join an industry leader that will develop your expertise and leadership
• A culture that lifts you up – with collaborative teams, shared wins, and people who cheer each other on.
• A community where your voice matters – it is essential to serve our customers well.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level