Vice President Creation Hub Leader North America, Perfumery & Beauty - Princeton, NJ

dsm-firmenich•Princeton, NJ

9d•$250,000 - $325,000•Onsite

About The Position

Step into a role where creativity, science, and business ambition come together to shape the future of fragrance creation in North America. As VP Creation Hub Leader North America, you’ll guide one of the industry’s most dynamic and multidisciplinary creative organizations, bringing together perfumers, fragrance development managers, evaluators, and lab experts around a shared vision: delivering breakthrough ideas, outstanding customer experiences, and sustainable growth. Reporting to the Regional Consumer Brands Leader North America, this role will serve as the leader responsible for all fragrance creation capabilities across the North America region and will be a key member of the Regional Consumer Brands North America Leadership Team, contributing directly to the definition and execution of regional strategy. You’ll champion creation, inspiring a broad creative community, and lead the Brief-to-Adoption (B2A) engine that powers value creation across the region. With a blend of strategic thinking, creativity, commercial acumen, and transformational leadership, you’ll help shape the next chapter of dsm-firmenich’s creative excellence in North America.

Requirements

Significant experience in fragrance creation, product development, consumer goods, beauty, or related creative leadership environments, ideally with responsibility for large cross-functional organizations
Strong people leadership with the ability to inspire multidisciplinary creative teams, build credibility with technical and commercial stakeholders, and develop talent while fostering an inclusive and engaged organization
Excellent communication, influence, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to connect teams, simplify complexity, drive alignment, and represent the Creation Hub both internally and externally
A transformational leadership mindset, comfortable challenging the status quo, driving change, balancing operational execution with long-term innovation, and motivating teams through periods of growth and evolution
Strategic and commercially oriented thinking, with the ability to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and business opportunities while positioning fragrance innovation as a key differentiator
Bachelor’s degree in related field such as business, engineering, marketing, science, or related discipline

Responsibilities

Inspire, develop, and empower Perfumers, Fragrance Development Managers, Evaluators, and Lab teams to create fragrances that delight consumers and win briefs, promoting unity, equitable resource access, engagement, and high performance across a sizeable, multidisciplinary organization
Lead and oversee all fragrance creation capabilities across North America, ensuring strong alignment between creative resources, customer priorities, and regional business strategy
Actively shape the development and careers of team members, building a highly engaged environment that supports growth, accountability, collaboration, and succession planning
Collaborate closely with leadership, Creation Excellence, commercial teams, and cross-functional partners to allocate the right resources to the right projects, driving growth, customer intimacy, and business retention
Lead, elevate, and continuously refine the Brief-to-Adoption (B2A) process to accelerate innovation, improve fragrance vitality and adoption, strengthen win rates, and ensure seamless activation with measurable business impact
Own and oversee critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), creation excellence, lab efficiency, pipeline management, resource deployment, and contribution to core commercial metrics — ensuring strong prioritization, data integrity, continuous improvement, and high-performing creative operations