NPD Manager - Perfumes

Job description

**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.