About the Role
As a Scent Design Associate, you will engage in collaborative efforts across various functions and levels to creatively support the development and introduction of innovative fragrance themes, technologies, consumer solutions, and new development processes. This position is based in our Scent Creative Center in Dubai.
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Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Manage Go-To-Market Projects and implement innovative fragrance development strategies.
- Connect market, customer, and consumer needs to identify, develop, and/or recommend competitive product solutions to drive business results.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (perfumers, technical, consumer insights, marketing) to uncover challenges and opportunities and develop new fragrance solutions and capabilities.
- Develop creative strategies according to Holistic Scent Design principles.
- Define the Consumer Insights strategy, detailing what to learn from consumers to gain competitive advantage and create consumer-relevant solutions.
- Manage the execution of the olfactive strategy by providing creative direction and olfactive guidance to perfumers to stimulate creative exploration and differentiation.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders, gaining their trust and respect.
- Communicate and maintain awareness of market developments and competitive insights, actively sharing knowledge with other parts of the organization.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Excellent olfactive communication skills that support the overall creative process – including the ability to discriminate, describe (association), and recall odors.
- Competence in identifying potential fragrance or technology solutions based on market relevance.
- Strong understanding of market/consumer trends and consumer behaviors/preferences.
- Understanding of fragrance ingredients and technology to facilitate communication with technical teams and perfumers.
- Basic technical understanding of fragrance formulations and the ability to assess stability risks.
- Strong project management skills; disciplined and process-oriented.
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Perfumery, Science, Chemistry, Consumer Science, Product Research, or any other relevant discipline.
- Fluent in English.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Open-minded, demonstrating strong agility and courage.
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment and under pressure.
- Commercial mindset, focused on bottom-line results.
- Team player with the ability to motivate others toward a common goal to achieve results.
- Excellent influencing skills across all levels within the organization.
Why Choose Us?
- Home office opportunity.
- Training opportunities.
- Learning and development programs.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diversity and enables our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work, regardless of their ethnicity, race, sex, age, veteran status, religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
