(Senior) Scent Design Manager

Confidential Jobs; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs in Riyadh seeks a (Senior) Scent Design Manager to lead fragrance strategy and collaborate with perfumers, technical teams, consumer insights, and marketing. You will translate market and consumer trends into innovative fragrance themes, technologies and development processes, driving Go-To-Market projects and cross-functional solutions.

The role demands strong olfactive communication, creative direction, and disciplined project leadership to inspire teams and deliver winning

Qualifications

• Excellent olfactive communication supports the creative process and can describe odor memories
• Ability to translate market insights into fragrance solutions and technologies
• Strong understanding of consumer trends and behaviors in fragrance
• Experience communicating with technical teams and perfumers to facilitate development
• Solid project management skills and process orientation

Responsibilities

• Lead go-to-market projects and implement fragrance development strategies
• Connect market, customer and consumer needs to drive competitive fragrance solutions
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop new fragrance capabilities
• Develop creative strategies according to holistic scent design principles
• Define consumer learnings and insights to gain competitive advantage

Skills

Olfactive communication

Market trend analysis

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Creative direction

Education

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Perfumery

Job description

As (Senior) Scent Design Manager, you will collaborate across functions and levels to contribute creatively to the development and introduction of new fragrance themes, technologies, consumer solutions, ideas and new development processes.

The role is based in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).

Together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

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
• Consumer Insights strategy: define what to learn from consumers to gain competitive advantage and build winning 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 and gain their trust and respect
• Communicate and maintain awareness on market developments and competitive insights and actively share knowledge with other parts of the organization

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Excellent olfactive communication skills which supports the overall creative process - discriminate, describe (association) and odor memory
• Ability to effectively identify potential fragrance or technology solutions based on market relevance
• Solid understanding of market/consumer trends and consumer behaviors/ preferences
• Fragrance ingredient and technology understanding to facilitate communication with technical teams and perfumers
• Basic technical understanding of fragrance formulations and 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

How Would You Stand Out?

• Open minded, strong agility and shows courage
• Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment and deliver under pressure
• Commercial mindset, bottom line oriented
• Team player, ability to motivate others towards a common goal to achieve results
• Excellent influencing skills across all levels within the organization