Senior Frangrance Developer

Reports to:

Fragrance Development Manager

Job Purpose

As a Senior Fragrance Developer, you will have the responsibility of developing winning fragrances for the assigned categories and markets. You will work closely with Account Managers and Marketing team to develop olfactive strategies and drive sales. Proactively develop strategic fragrance collections for key customers based on their needs. Use your expertise to analyze benchmark products and market data to translate into development briefs.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Ownership of key accounts
• Ownership of key markets
• Ownership of key categories
• Promote library fragrances where applicable
• Guide perfumers in developing winning fragrances
• Understanding of olfactive strategies of main brands in market/category
• Analyze client portfolio and perform gap analysis
• Grow untapped accounts through strategic fragrance portfolio reviews
• Identify best performing fragrances for assigned category and promote to sales team
• Work closely with other evaluators, perfumers and sales team
• Support assigned markets by looking at trends, gaps and prospects
• Training the Junior evaluators
• Building evaluation protocols

Skills and Attributes Required

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Fragrance Development role
• Excellent communication & presentation skills (Spoken & Written English), Arabic is a plus
• Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Minimum passing score in CPL sensory test is a must
• Olfactive knowledge & perfumery language
• Market knowledge of the assigned category
• Basic knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Project management
• Time management
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Collaboration skills