Fragrance Development Manager

Company Description

Belle Aire Creations aspires to be focus-oriented, customer driven and positioned as the top tier mid-market fragrance solution. We consider ourselves to be a truly unique company whose employees will continue to complement existing personnel and represent the goals and values of the organization.

Fragrances/Cosmetics/Personal Care/Candles

Fragrance Development Manager

Full-Time

Are you ready to immerse yourself in a world of captivating aromas and unleash your olfactory prowess? We are seeking a passionate and discerning individual to become our next Fragrance Development Manager! If you have a keen sense of smell, an appreciation for the artistry of perfumery, and a nose for exceptional scents, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

A Fragrance Development Manager (FDM) is the Project Brief lead for all Client briefs from inception to completion. The FDM will work directly with other members of Fragrance Development, Perfumery, Marketing, Applications, Regulatory, the Library Administrator and other various departments in order to ensure that project briefs are completed within the allotted time frame. The FDM will direct all aspects of the fragrance development process, ensuring compatibility with the requested odor profile, customer parameters, regulatory compliance, application samples, pricing structure, stability protocol, etc.

In addition, the FDM will coordinate with sales and marketing to ensure total customer satisfaction.

• Work in a team environment to develop trend collections, capsule collections, and library subset fragrances
• Conduct market research and identify trends
• Translate Consumer Market Insight research into olfactory submissions for Clients
• Learn to guide the creative process using all of the resources available at Belle Aire Creations, including Trend Aroma, Mintel, WGSN, Happi Magazine and other industry subscriptions
• Fragrance development for specific customer needs
• Select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines
• Enter data relevant to project briefs into various systems
• Write olfactory inspiration and fragrance descriptions linked to Marketing trends, when applicable, based on region/market and for the purpose of partners for knowledge-building and sharing
• Attend regularly scheduled olfactive analysis meetings to review new products with Evaluation team
• Evaluate fragrances and provide constructive feedback to Perfumery team
• Coordinate with Applications team on specific project needs (stability, weight loss testing, etc.)
• Understand assigned account demographics, preferred odor profiles, regulatory and sample needs
• Communicate with Sales on mutually assigned accounts to realize account growth potential
• Participate in panel testing of various products
• Support account presentations when necessary either via video meetings or possible travel up to 30%
• Ensure efficient execution of projects with a focus on on-time delivery, win rate, and customer engagement

* Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties and responsibilities for this job may change at any time without notice.

• Bachelor’s degree in science, Marketing, Communications or other similar discipline
• 2-4 years’ relevant experience in Fragrance Development, Retail Fragrance, Beauty/Personal Care, or Home Fragrance preferred

• Passionate for Fragrance, Beauty and Home Design Trends
• Capable and comfortable quickly changing direction and readjusting focus and drive, as business needs change
• Exceptional people/team and strong collaboration skills
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Understanding of scheduling, lead times and time management
• Ability to work well under pressure and changing dynamics
  
  Deadline oriented
• Self-starter, highly self-motivated, structured, and disciplined

• Must be PC literate and literate in Excel, Word and Power Point, and Outlook
• Preferred advanced Excel

• Apply principles of rational…