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Senior Fragrance Development Manager
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Senior Fragrance Development Manager
Senior Fragrance Development Manager, Surface Care
Location: London, UK - Southall, Middlesex
Join us as a Senior Fragrance Development Manager in Surface Care, where you’ll lead the full fragrance innovation cycle, transforming consumer insights into inspiring scents. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, shape olfactive strategies, and create products that delight customers while driving sustainable impact.
Responsive Responsibilities
- Leading the full fragrance development cycle for assigned accounts, from initial brief to adoption
- Collaborating with Perfumers, Technical Development Teams, Marketing, Consumer Insights, and Commercial teams to deliver beneficial solutions for clients
- Delivering winning fragrance themes aligned with customer expectations and consumer needs, informed by data
- Maintaining vigilant awareness of scented products in assigned categories to identify olfactive trends and opportunities
- Acting as the Development Partner for the Sales teams, co-creating fragrance strategies, brainstorming ideas, and nurturing client relationships
- Building sound olfactive strategies based on consumer insights
- Collaborating with team members to develop consumer insight plans for continuous knowledge enhancement
What We Bring to You
Your journey at dsm-firmenich offers:
- An inspiring path of learning and transformation
- A rich history and prominent future rooted in bold scientific innovation and passionate creation with customers
- The opportunity to shape our purpose—to improve the quality of life for workforce, families, local communities, and society at large
- Participation in breakthrough industrial innovations and technology, contributing to a strong legacy
- Work within a dynamic, agile, and multinational team
- A growth-focused culture that encourages curiosity, openness, and an adaptive mindset
- Prioritization of safety and well-being, balancing physical and mental health
- Sustainability as an integral core of strategy, not just a claim
- A flexible work environment allowing accountability over outcomes
- Competitive pay, career growth opportunities, and exceptional benefit programs
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Your Contribution
Must Have
• Education: University degree is mandated • Experience: Five years (or more) of consecutive fragrance development, with experience in Home and/or Surface Cleaning Fragrances preferred • Olfactive aptitude: Be olfactively trained • Proven delivery: Track record of successful fragrance launches • Soft skills: Digital savviness, communication, organisation, and project management
Bona Fide Traits
• A creative & strategic thinker with a growth mindset and curiosity to adapt • Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a collaborative team
About dsm-firmenich
At dsm-firmenich, expectations are not just met—they are surpassed. Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose:
- Elevate health, enable fortified food, and deliver sustainable skincare
- Transform fragrances that help you focus, plant-based meats better for our planet, or reducing sugar without sacrificing flavour
- Shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for all
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Beyond making a difference, we empower your growth through:
- Education that never stops
- A culture that uplifts every individual
- Free rein across businesses, teams, and borders
- Your voice matters, and ideas are essential to our shared future
Progress is greater when achieved together. Beyond our ambition.
Inclusion, Belonging & Equal Opportunity Statement
At dsm-firmenich, building a force for good starts with how we embrace and uplift each other. A thriving culture grows when:
- People feel supported, included, and true to themselves
- Every colleague has equal access to opportunity, celebrating authenticity and facilitating personal and professional growth
- Authenticity and inclusiveness are prioritized, ensuring belonging for all
We are committed to:
- Equality in hiring: Applying inclusive language and diverse interview panels
- Foul-proof hiring process to ensure fairness
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that defines you.
Disability inclusion: If you require any support throughout the application process, please direct us to how we might assist. We are here for you.
Agency Note
This recruitment is being handled directly by dsm-firmenich. Agency submissions or proposals involving fees/commissions are not accepted for this role. We value direct applications from heroic candidates.
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