Are you passionate in exploring fragrance creation and developing the fragrances of tomorrow?

Are you looking for a role that will positively impact the lives & wellbeing of people around the world? Do you have a passion for scents and innovation? At IFF you can help to influence the market trends to create delightful scent experiences. We are now seeking a motivated and results driven talent to join our Scent division in Scent Design for the fabric care category. This position is one that offers a collaborative work environment, with a chance to create work for both new and established consumer brands. The position will be located in our Fabric & Home Care Innovation Center in Hilversum, the Netherlands

Come join IFF where science and creativity meet to create essential solutions for a better world!

• Connect market, customer and consumer needs to identify, develop and/or recommend competitive product solutions to drive business results.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (perfumers, technical/R&D, CI/marketing) to uncover challenges and opportunities and develop new fragrance solutions and capabilities.
• Manage programs with high technical content linked to fragrance technologies and ingredients and/or product base formulations.
• Ideation: stimulate teams in finding new consumer solutions and development processes
• Consumer Insights strategy: define what to learn from consumers to gain competitive advantage and build consumer relevant solutions and value propositions.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to feed into technical/R&D briefings.

• Partner with internal customers / stakeholders to ensure fragrance strategies align to overall business objectives
• Consistently drive process, discipline and effective execution to bring the desired speed to market
• Monitor results and have the agility to change the course of a project when needed
• Good understanding of the big picture and use this knowledge to define and establish competitive solutions / strategies
• Maintain global visibility, internally and externally

• Actively share information and knowledge with a mind-set to put teams in a position to make the difference
• Document learning and insights generation. Present and share market/consumer/olfactive trends, fragrance solutions and creative guidelines with internal and external customers, in partnership with relevant disciplines

• Support the principles of a learning organization
• Establish strong working relationships with global teams and internal & external customers.
• Drive your own development; partner with your manager to ensure SMART objectives and a personal development plan

• Excellent olfactive communication skills which support the overall creative process – discriminate, describe (association) and odor memory
• Manage the execution of the olfactive strategy by providing creative direction and olfactive guidance to perfumers in order to stimulate creative exploration and differentiation.
• Ability to effectively identify potential fragrance or technology solutions based on market relevance.
• Creates compelling communication to teams or stakeholders to drive strategy and share knowledge.
• Solid understanding of market/consumer trends and consumer behaviors/ preferences globally.
• Fragrance ingredient and technology understanding to facilitate communication with technical teams and perfumers
• Basic technical understanding of fabric care formulations to apply to fragrance challenges and create solutions
• Proficiency of data mining, analysis, insight generation and drawing conclusions. Independently write reports summarizing work done and recommendations on opportunities and potential next steps.
• Actively shares knowledge and actionable insights with other parts of the organization
• Communicate and maintain awareness on market developments and competitive insights.
• Strong project management skills, disciplined and process oriented.
• Open minded, strong agility and shows courage.
• Ability to deliver in a fast pace environment and deliver under pressure.
• Curious approach - enjoy difficult challenges
• Team player, ability to motivates others towards a common goal to achieve results
• Excellent influencing skills across all levels within the organization
• Fluent in English, other language proficiency (e.g. Dutch) is a plus
• Embraces diversity

• Master’s or Bachelor degree, preferably in Perfumery, Science, Chemistry or business
• Minimum 2-3 years working experience (fragrance house or consumer goods company), in an international environment
• Fabric Care category experience is a pre
• Excellent olfactive capabilities; Olfactive assessment is part of the selection process