Senior Development Director (Hybrid) in City of London

Join us as a Senior Fragrance Development Manager in Surface Care, where you’ll lead the full fragrance innovation cycle, turning consumer insights into inspiring scents. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, shape olfactive strategies, and create products that delight customers while driving sustainable impact.

• Leading the full fragrance development cycle for all assigned accounts – managing all aspects of the fragrance development project from brief to adoption.
• Collaborate with Perfumers, Technical Development Teams, Marketing, Consumer Insights and Commercial teams to deliver beneficial solutions for our clients.
• Deliver winning fragrance themes that answer our customers’ expectations aligned with consumer needs based on data analysis where available.
• Maintain a vast and up to date awareness of scented products across assigned categories, to identify olfactive trends and opportunities that can be turned into concrete customer solutions.
• Be the Development Partner with Sales. Collaborate with team members to develop effective consumer insight plans to further enhance knowledge building.

An inspiring journey of learning and transformation:

• A rich history and a promising future of bold scientific innovation and passionate creation with our customers.
• The chance to play a key role in our purpose to improve the quality of life of our workforce, our families, our local communities, and society at large.
• The opportunity to be part of a company shaping a strong legacy through breakthrough industrial innovations and technology.
• The chance to work within a dynamic, agile, and multinational team.
• The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose.
• A flexible work environment that empowers people to take accountability for their work and own the outcome.
• We offer competitive pay, career growth opportunities, and outstanding benefit programs.

Your experience:

• You will have five or more consecutive years within fragrance development with experience in Home and/or Surface cleaning fragrances preferable.
• We need a creative & strategic thinker, with a growth mindset and curiosity to learn & adapt to change.
• Digital savviness, great communication, organisation, and project management skills.

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day. Whether it’s fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that’s better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavour, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement:

When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.

And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we’re here to help – just let us know what you need, and we’ll do everything we can to make it work.