Beauty Product Development Project Coordinator

Symrise; Teterboro (NJ); On-site; USD 66,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Symrise, a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients, is hiring a Project Coordinator in New Jersey. You will coordinate product development initiatives across Beauty Activations, manage the product development library, and provide responsive commercial support.

You will work across technical, sales, marketing, and procurement teams to ensure projects are well-documented, prioritized, and advanced toward customer presentation and commercialization,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, supply chain, chemistry, cosmetic science, or related field.
• Experience in beauty, personal care, cosmetics, fragrance, consumer products, or related development.
• Proven ability to coordinate projects and manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and tracking tools.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently, protect confidential information, and build cross-functional relationships.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate product development initiatives, timelines, deliverables, and follow-up across Beauty Activations and partner functions.
• Receive, document, and track project requests, ensuring requirements, priorities, owners, milestones, and next steps are defined.
• Schedule project reviews and cross-functional meetings; prepare agendas, capture decisions and action items, and follow through on commitments.
• Identify timeline risks, missing information, resource constraints, and escalated issues to the Director of Beauty Activations as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate project trackers, status reports, and support documentation to improve visibility and ensure timely execution.
• Own the organization and day-to-day maintenance of the product development library, including prototypes, costing records, presentation materials, and related assets.
• Coordinate sample inventory, labeling, storage, and disposition in partnership with laboratory and technical teams.
• Work with Marketing to support periodic library reviews to identify gaps and opportunities to improve usability.

Skills

Project coordination

Cross-functional teamwork

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Written and verbal communication

Detail orientation

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, supply chain, chemistry, cosmetic science

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Outlook

Collaborative project tracking tools

Job description

Symrise, a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients, is hiring a Project Coordinator in New Jersey. You will coordinate product development initiatives across Beauty Activations, manage the product development library, and provide responsive commercial support.

You will work across technical, sales, marketing, and procurement teams to ensure projects are well-documented, prioritized, and advanced toward customer presentation and commercialization,