Senior Fragrance Application Technologist

We have an exciting opportunity in the fragrance industry with a leading manufacturing Company

Location: Noida

Working days: Monday to Saturday.

Experience: 8 plus years in Application.

Key Responsibilities:

Position: Senior Fragrance Application Technologist

Department: Fragrance R&D

Direct Superior : Chief Perfumer– Fragrance R&D

Direct Subordinates : Application Lab Team

Scope: The Role offers to showcase your technical expertise in formulation and scale-up trials of fine fragrance, personal care, home care and air care products. It also challenges your creative ability to generate customer-specific new concepts / applications, using our fragrances to create multi-sensorial experience and build competitive advantage.

Key Responsible Areas:

Product formulations & scale-up trials for winning fragrances:

Develop high quality fine fragrance, personal care, homecare and air care product bases for fragrances applications and ensure optimum performance of fragrances in those bases. Analyse client's product formulation and communicate its characteristics to fragrance development team for better understanding of challenges for perfuming that base. Work in collaboration with clients and provide full technical support for product formulations and scale-up trials. Explore and developing innovative fragrance delivery systems for product formulations and demonstrations to our clients . Oversee the application of fragrances in consumer products, ensuring they meet the desired sensory and performance attributes.

Team Management and Maintain excellent interpersonal relations:

Lead the Fragrance Application Laboratory team by setting priorities and to ensure that project/customer application samples are dispatched efficiently and in a timely manner. Coach, train, and motivate Lab technicians to deliver the samples at quality standards.

Innovation & Trend Analysis:

Stay up to date with market trends, consumer preferences, and emerging fragrance technologies to drive innovation in fragrance applications. Recommend and implement new formats, techniques and technologies for fragrance evaluation and application in consumer products.

Maintain Organizational Effectiveness:

Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment in accordance with health & safety policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines. Manage projects with the complete ability to lead large development projects. Maintain a good technical partnership with customers, suppliers to create innovative formulations/bases.

Working Relationship:

I. Internal

• Fragrance R&D Team including perfumers and evaluators

• Fragrance Sales team

II. External

• Customers

• Vendors

Education: Bachelor or master's degree in Analytical chemistry/industrial applications/formulation sciences or related disciplines.

Experience: Min. 8-10 years of experience in core fragrance house, working in R&D and application development of Home & Personal care products.

Skill/Knowledge

• Solid understanding of Fine Fragrances, Personal care, Home care & Air Care products manufacturing technologies
• Expert technical problem-solving skills in specific product formulation and applications areas.
• Ability to translate market trends into innovative concepts/fragrance applications for customers
• Proven track record in fragrance development or application within a commercial environment.
• Excellent communication, leadership and inter-personal skills
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.

Interested Candidates can reach out to bindu@searchlighthr.com or call me at 8055288886.