NPD Manager - Perfumes

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with leadership and internal stakeholders to drive fragrance development and innovation across multiple brands and categories.
• Evaluate and guide fragrance creation through expert sensory assessment, ensuring alignment with brand identity, consumer preference, and product positioning.
• Act as a bridge between consumer expectations, business objectives, and the technical capabilities of perfumers and formulation teams.
• Conduct technical evaluation of fragrance samples, providing recommendations on stability-tested formulations, reformulations, and product reworks.
• Build deep expertise in raw materials, fragrance ingredients, olfactory families, and emerging market and consumer trends.
• Continuously benchmark new creations and market products through fragrance evaluation, sensory analysis, and structured fragrance profiling.
• Collaborate with R&D, brand, and external fragrance partners to drive fragrance excellence across the product lifecycle.
• Maintain high standards of fragrance quality, consistency, and performance through ongoing evaluation and refinement.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• Relevant experience in perfumery, fragrance evaluation, fragrance development, or related domains within beauty, personal care, FMCG, or fragrance houses.
• Educational background in Chemistry, Perfumery, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of fragrance composition, olfactory families, raw materials, and formulation considerations.
• Exceptional sensory evaluation skills with a highly developed olfactory ability (“expert nose”).
• Experience working with fragrance houses, perfumers, product development teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills.