Evaluator - Fragrance Creation

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

With ever-increasing variety, consumer demand, and rapid change of trends in the fragrance industry, the professional role of 'evaluation' was introduced in the late 1970s to support perfumers in their creative processes.

Reporting to the Creative Fragrance Team Director, you will project manage by collaborating with Perfumers and our creative centers. You will interpret marketing knowledge and use your technical expertise to assist customers in developing olfactory strategies to impact our role within the industry. This role is onsite in our Ridgedale Offices located in East Hanover NJ. We offer 1 day from home and flexible working schedules. There will be some travel to meet with our customers throughout the creative process.

• Fragrance Development - Manage fragrance projects, develop olfactory strategy for clients and liaise directly with perfumers to develop fragrance themes. Manage/execute multiple briefs and develop or select fragrances according to the given brief guidelines. Manage the best fragrance collection, respond to gap analysis, market needs, market trends and incorporate Givaudan technologies and undertake fast and efficient selection of fragrances for select projects. Work with lab on testing product stability. Understand the Best Practices to influence efficiency improvement opportunities.

• Collaboration and Influence - Conduct customer presentations/interactions. Participate in olfactory analysis of new products to identify interesting notes for creative development. Develop new fragrances with Perfumers on a proactive basis. Manage fast and efficient selection of fragrances for activation projects from oil or blind.

• Industry Curiosity Marketing - Anticipate market tastes; work with marketing colleagues on proactive concept generation. Write olfactory summaries of a region/market and customer for knowledge-building and sharing. Demonstrate track records of new wins. Build and curate the best-in-class fragrance collection, responding to gap analysis, market needs, market trends and incorporating our technologies.

You?

• University degree (advanced degree in related field helpful)
• 4 + years of progressive functional/technical experience
• Project management experience
• Solid olfactory consumer understanding and an interest in fragrance trends and how fragrance is evolving.
• A unique type of mindset that is both scientific and creative.

Benefits include Major Medical, Dental, Vision, and a High Matching 401k

Job Title and Base Salary are partly determined by education and experience and our compensation program guidelines. $100k-$125k per year.

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Every essence of you enriches our world.
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