Scent Design (Fragrance Development) Manager

Kewajiban

• Project management Partner with internal customers / stakeholders to ensure fragrance strategies align to overall business objectives. Responsible for establishing olfactive direction and driving the overall success. 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.
• Creative Excellence Partner with internal stakeholders to establish the creative strategy to drive the overall success of a project which fulfil customers’ expectations and ensure profitability. Share market product knowledge / brand portfolio knowledge with internal stakeholders to help guide the creative process. Execution of the olfactive strategy by providing creative direction and olfactive guidance to Perfumers to stimulate creativity. Identify potential fragrances based on brand fit and market relevance. Leverage fragrances from Bank for future and / or cross category initiatives. Understand all innovation and technical drivers which impact olfactive capabilities.
• Knowledge Management Have a thorough understanding of the process for managing the Scent Portfolio. Support the principles of the learning organization, generates Insights.
• Customer focus and teamwork Drive the creative process by ensuring strong working relationships with internal / external customers. Present market trends, fragrance trends and CI analysis in partnership with relevant disciplines. Communicate effectively about fragrances including olfactive rationale for fragrance submissions in relation to trends, brands and competitive analysis.
• Olfactive Skills Ability to identify potential fragrances based on brand fit and market relevance. Demonstrate good olfactory skills and develop overall vision of themes. Good understanding of the important engines and accords available in the category.
• Business Acumen Maintain good overview on the relationship between creative process, decisions, cost, product performance and constraints in developing fragrances. Understand the economics of raw materials as they impact cost guidelines and price sensitivity of client's briefs/demands. Articulation of creative decisions on projects for focus on creativity and cost to serve.