Activation & Creation Perfumer

Purpose

• Develop winning fragrances in areas of specialization.
• Work internally with commercial and development teams to build market and consumer understanding.
• Represent Givaudan with key clients.
• Actively support global and regional initiatives.

Core Responsibilities

• Rework and optimize formulas selected from the Galleria for submission on L&R briefs, achieving maximum efficiency with minimal modifications while maintaining olfactive integrity and performance.
• Independently and collaboratively adapt winning fragrance themes across multiple product bases, price points, market requirements, and regulatory norms, in alignment with evaluation feedback and business needs.
• Partner closely with originating perfumers, evaluators, category teams, and technical stakeholders to ensure successful fragrance activation and deployment across categories and customer opportunities.
• Proactively contribute to enriching and maintaining the Galleria portfolio by identifying and filling olfactive, market, and category gaps with relevant fragrance solutions.
• Support category teams, development, and sales teams on long-tail and regional L&R customer projects, providing agile fragrance creation and activation expertise when needed.
• Create original fragrance compositions aligned with customer briefs, market trends, brand positioning, and technical requirements across relevant product categories.
• Translate consumer insights, olfactive trends, and customer expectations into innovative fragrance concepts that support business growth and differentiation.
• Balance creativity with commercial awareness by delivering fragrances that meet performance, cost, speed, and regulatory objectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with evaluators, marketing, consumer insight, and technical teams to drive fragrance innovation and project success.
• Maintain awareness of market trends, competitor activity, raw material developments, and emerging olfactive directions to continuously strengthen the fragrance portfolio and creative output.

Academic Background

• University Degree preferred: science/chemistry or other suitable field of study
• Verbal and written command of English
• Proficiency in one or more additional languages is an asset
• Basic proficiency using common PC applications
• Successful and consistent career as Perfumer, with mastery of all corresponding skills required, or equivalent background
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Perfumer

Professional Experience

• Successful and consistent career at a Perfumer II level, having reached and exceeded corresponding performance objectives.
• Strong and proven track record of wins in given area(s) of specialization.
• Starts to be considered as an ingredient and formulation expert in given area(s) of specialization.
• Minimum of 4-6+ years of experience at a Perfumer II level, and mastery of 80% of competencies for Senior Perfumer I level at time of promotion.

Technical Skills - Fragrance Creation, Ingredients & Formulation

• Demonstrates ability to develop, manage and constantly enrich a portfolio of winning themes and perfumes from the gallery
• Demonstrates a sound base of technical skills, competencies and knowledge in area(s) of specialty
• Demonstrates a sound knowledge of specialties and captives as well as of relevant technologies.
• Demonstrates ability to apply fragrance creations to other categories.

Systems, Processes, RAPS/Legislation

• Masters all relevant systems, processes and has a sound knowledge of RAPS and the legislative framework.

General Business Skills

• Competent at managing own project portfolio, setting priorities and managing resources involved in projects
• Competent to work effectively with all departments in development process on a regional and global level
• Develop ability to work collaboratively in the modification process (P2P)

Business Knowledge

Client Knowledge and Relationship

• Effectively supports Sales, Marketing and Development with customer interactions, understands customer organization and decision making, and is able to support submissions with rationale and relevant story telling.

Market Knowledge

• Demonstrates solid knowledge of F&F industry
• Demonstrates a good understanding of general market dynamics, including best sellers, best smellers, novelties, etc. across multiple geographies

General Business Understanding

• Can articulate Givaudan’s brand and value proposition to influence customers
• Has a basic understanding of relevant business areas and concepts, such as finance, product costing, Fragrance Ingredients Management, supply chain, etc. to influence win rate and profitability.

Self-Management and Leadership

• Communicates effectively across functions and geographies
• Learns from experiences; handles mistakes with poise
• Readily seeks and accepts advice from colleagues