HC Fragrance Design Senior Specialist

Job Title: HC Fragrance Design Senior Specialist

Reports to: Senior Fragrance Design Leader

Location: Mumbai HURC

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Omo, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with the daunting issues of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a connected world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace”.

As the Home Care Fragrance Design team, our mission is to elevate consumers’ experiences by delivering extraordinary fragrances to drive desire at scale.
We are looking out for a dynamic fragrance evaluator with not only a passion for fragrance, but also a passion to create rewarding experiences for the consumers we serve, and in doing so make a positive difference to their lives.
The successful candidate will report to the Senior Fragrance Design Lead for South Asia.

Main Accountabilities

• You will work as the Fragrance Design Specialist for South Asia within a globally networked Fragrance Design team, to support the effective delivery of Fragrance Design Programme and the fragrance co-creation and selection aspects for our Homecare portfolio across product formats e.g. powder/liquid detergent, fabric conditioner, fragrance beads, unit dose, etc.

• You will support other Fragrance Development Managers/Leads in the fragrance design process, internally and externally, initiating fragrance briefs in the system, setting up evaluations, generating evaluation reports, coordinating with fragrance partners for fragrance sampling & claim support, thus ensuring fragrance technical readiness across all project types (innovation, regulatory).

• You will have consumer visits to various test centres to evaluate our fragrances in real consumer conditions, generate visit reports and share learnings within regional & global fragrance community.

• You will lead the fragrance adaptation work across all the product formats for the UL Innovation & Eco design programs in close partnership with UL Technical Project Leads and Fragrance partners.

• You will lead the coordination with global & regional fragrance analysis team for competitor product analysis.

• You will act as the primary contact for all the fragrance support in claims, demo activation, olfactive mapping of competitor products (new launch/change of existing frg) with fragrance partners.

• You will be responsible for maintaining the digital fragrance library

About You and what you will need to succeed

• 3+ years of fragrance evaluation experience at the fragrance house or FMCG

• Strong olfactive ability to enable objective evaluation of development samples. ISIPCA or equivalent training is preferred, but not essential.

• Passion for understanding consumer fragrance preferences

• Good communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration & regarded as a great team player.

• Excellent project management skills with a proven track record of delivering projects to successful completion.

• Digital mindset and your way of working will ensure that data and insights are captured and maximized across the fragrance design programme

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