Senior Product Development Manager

Dossier Perfumes; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dossier Perfumes in New York seeks a Senior Product Development Manager, Fragrance to own end-to-end fragrance development and launch readiness, coordinating fragrance houses, packaging, regulatory, and costing. You will drive 30+ active projects, ensure on-schedule, on-cost launches, and hand off to Operations.

You will lead regulatory compliance across MoCRA, IFRA, allergens, and registrations internationally, negotiate with suppliers, and ensure quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product development, with at least 4 in fragrance (brand side, fragrance house or full-service developer).
• Track record of launching fine fragrance in the U.S., across mass retail and DTC.
• Hands-on fragrance development: briefing houses, rounds, stability and compatibility, filler liaison.
• Solid regulatory fluency for fragrance: IFRA, allergens, MoCRA, ingredient lists; EU/UK/Canada work.
• Packaging development: components, dielines, artwork proofs, fill and leakage testing.
• Comfortable building COGS and negotiating with vendors.
• Highly organized: manage 30+ projects in parallel with accurate trackers.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end fragrance development from brief to launch: development, item setup, packaging, costing and post-launch review.
• Direct packaging development: brief vendors, manage artwork and production-ready briefs with branding.
• Coordinate regulatory and compliance activities for MoCRA, EU/UK/Canada with regulatory partners.
• Build and maintain COGS, review quotes, negotiate with vendors to hit target costs.
• Create BOMs, UPCs and item setup; hand off to Operations and the filler; approve pre-production samples.
• Provide commercial support for sampling programs and retailer requests that start from a fragrance.

Skills

Product development

Fragrance development

Regulatory fluency

COGS and cost negotiation

Project management

Supplier coordination

Job description

The Senior Product Development Manager, Fragrance owns the development of every Dossier fragrance, end to end, from brief to launch. You make sure our fragrance launches run on a reliable, fast cadence and are handed to Operations launch-ready, on schedule, on cost and at the quality our customers expect.

You are the day-to-day lead for our fragrance houses, filler, packaging vendors and regulatory partners. The CPO sets the product vision and makes the final olfactive call; you turn it into launch-ready products.

What you'll own

Scope: the full fragrance portfolio, including eaux de parfum in several sizes, sets and gifting, collaborations and new fragrance formats.

Fragrance pipeline: own priorities, timelines and trackers for every fragrance project, and keep them accurate week to week.

• End-to-end development: lead each SKU from brief to launch: fragrance development, item setup, artwork, packaging, filler development and stability, regulatory, costing, sampling, production and post-launch review.
• Fragrance development: brief our fragrance houses, manage rounds and samples, capture evaluator feedback and bring submissions to the CPO for the final olfactive decision.
• Packaging development: brief packaging vendors, manage components from request to production-ready artwork, prepare final packaging briefs with Branding (ingredient lists, UPCs, copy, dielines) and run fill and leakage tests with our filler.
• Regulatory and compliance: manage regulatory documentation for every fragrance, request ingredient lists, and coordinate registrations (U.S. MoCRA and California, EU, UK, Canada) with our regulatory partners, so every launch is compliant.
• Costing and negotiation: build and maintain COGS, review quotes, negotiate with vendors and hit target costs.
• New item setup and launch readiness: create BOMs, UPCs and item setup documents; hand off cleanly to Operations and the filler; approve pre-production samples and retains.
• Commercial support: directing support mailers, sampling programs, discovery formats and retail requests that start from a fragrance.

What we're looking for

Must-haves

• 7+ years in product development, with at least 4 in fragrance (brand side, fragrance house or full-service developer).
• A track record of launching fine fragrance in the U.S., ideally across mass retail (Walmart, Target, CVS) and DTC.
• Hands-on knowledge of fragrance development: briefing houses, managing rounds, stability and compatibility, working with a filler.
• Solid regulatory fluency for fragrance: IFRA, allergens, ingredient lists, MoCRA, and working with regulatory consultants for EU, UK and Canada.
• Packaging development experience: components, dielines, artwork proofs, fill and leakage testing.
• Comfortable building COGS and negotiating with vendors.
• Highly organized: you run 30+ projects in parallel and your trackers are always right.
• A good nose and real interest in fragrance; you can give clear, useful feedback on a sample.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with fragrance sets, gifting and retailer programs (advent calendars, holiday).
• Experience with new fragrance formats (solid, hair and body mists, oils).
• An existing network of fragrance, packaging and filling suppliers.