Senior Fragrance Development Manager 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.

Your key responsibilities:

• 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. Co-creating fragrance strategies, sound boarding ideas and nurturing client relationships.
• Build sound olfactive strategies based on consumer insights.
• Collaborate with team members to develop effective consumer insight plans to further enhance knowledge building.

We bring:

• 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.
• A space to grow by encouraging and supporting curiosity and an open mindset.
• A culture that prioritises safety and well-being, both physically and mentally.
• 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.

You bring:

• Education - University degree is a must.
• Your experience - you will have five or more consecutive years within fragrance development with experience in Home and/or Surface cleaning fragrances preferable.
• The way you think - we need a creative & strategic thinker, with a growth mindset and curiosity to learn & adapt to change.
• Must be olfactively trained.
• A proven track record of successful fragrance launches.
• Digital savviness, great communication, organisation, and project management skills.
• Ability to work well independently and in a group.

At dsm-firmenich, we don’t just meet expectations – we go beyond them. Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life. From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day.

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement: At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. 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. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you.