Hiring: Olfactive Scientist

Job Location

SINGAPORE TC-BIOPOLIS

Job Description Overview of role

Perfume is a critical driver of consumer delight and business growth in nearly every category in P&G. The Olfactive Scientist is responsible for development of successful freshness system in Fabric and Home Care with a combination of strong scientific and creative skills, understanding of our brand equities and consumer needs, as well as mechanistic understanding of product chassis and perfume delivery technologies.

Your team

You will work in the Fabric & Home Care (F&HC) team of the Fragrance & Flavor (F&F) discipline. You will be part of a passionate team of perfumers and technical experts in leading projects in the region and globe.

Key Responsibilities

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• Developing key fragrance-related consumer insights and translating those into directions that guide the creation of superior fragrances for our brands.
  
• Inspiring, motivating and providing critical, consumer-driven evaluation feedback to P&G and Perfume House perfumers to help guide them in the development of Irresistibly Superior perfumes.
  
• Providing fragrance project leadership, working with category PR customers, internal, and external perfume resources.
  
• Develop new methodologies that improve Perfume's capability to create and identify superior fragrances that help drive purchase intent and build brand equity.
  
• Leverage the effective use of external perfume resources to complement our internal perfume capability to meet project objectives.
  

Job Qualifications

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• Bachelors/ Masters / PhD degree in Science or Engineering fields.
  
• A ISIPCA degree is highly preferred.
  
• Experience in a Fragrance design type role either in fragrance or in category related work that involved fragrance design.
  
• The role will require a skill set that enables immediate impact on projects across multiple fronts.
  
• Olfactive Acuity – Potential candidate must pass an odor acuity test and overall have an excellent sense of smell.
  
• Creativity & Innovation – Demonstrate a strong creative talent and a passion to use this creativity on the job.
  
• Passion – Passion for fragrance and truly believe in the power of perfume to transform the delight our brands can deliver for consumers.
  
• The candidate should use scent regularly in their day-to-day life and be able to clearly articulate the role scent plays in their personal product usage experiences.
  
• Agility – Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and be able to effectively organize and prioritize their work.
  
• The current category work is very dynamic and there are several active projects currently in development.
  
• Attention to detail and discipline in follow through will be critical for success in this role.
  
• Communication - Good communication skills and be able to effectively discuss progress on programs on a frequent basis.
  
• The candidate will be interacting daily with multiple project teams, perfumers, perfume houses and product supply, and must be able to effectively communicate the program needs.
  
• Products Research Experience - Have some understanding of or experience in products research (participation in focus groups/1-1 consumer interviews, IHVs, running consumer research or building panels, basic data analysis).
  
• The candidate will be asked to guide perfume learning plans for the programs they manage, so knowledge of PR tools is beneficial.
  
• Technical Mastery – Basic knowledge of chemistry to understand perfume raw materials and how they interact with product applications and be willing to go into more depth as needed to understand interactions between perfumes, chassis and perfume delivery technologies.
  
• Collaboration – Able to collaborate with multiple functions within P&G, including R&D, Regulatory, Purchases, and Product Supply. Externally, P&G Perfumers collaborate with Perfumers across the industry, technology suppliers, and academic partners.
  
• The successful candidate will have a strong track record of collaborating internally and externally to bring out the best skills and capabilities in pursuit of winning perfumes.
  

About us

We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions.

We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers