Associate Fragrance Development Director FFE

Dsm-Firmenich

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead the full fragrance development cycle for complex fragrance projects of the assigned accounts in Local & regional customers managing all aspects of the fragrance development project from brief to adoption and deliver winning fragrance themes that answer client and consumer needs, integrating innovative solutions that align with brand strategy.
• Collaborate and partner with Perfumers, Sales, Technical Development Teams, Marketing, Consumer Insights and Commercial teams to deliver beneficial solutions for our clients, co-creating fragrance strategies, sound boarding ideas and nurturing client relationships.
• Participate in Category strategy definition and execution (across functions: CMI, Technical Resources, CI, perfumers, sales)
• Maintain a vast and up to date awareness of scented products across assigned categories, to identify long-term olfactive trends and initiate proactive development aligned with market needs.
• Collaborate with team members to develop effective consumer insight plans to further enhance knowledge building.
• Promote positive team spirit by contributing to common objectives and sharing information. Help olfactive train clients and internal colleagues in other functions when needed.
• Coach junior FDMs on evaluation techniques and trends, setting olfactive standards within the team.