Senior Fragrance Design Manager

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Job Title: Senior Fragrance Design Manager

Location: Port Sunlight

Want to change the world?

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 one of the world’s largest users of Fragrances, we recognise that creating exceptional fragrances is at the heart of delivering extraordinary consumer experiences and driving world-leading products. Superior fragrances play a critical role in the delivery of unmissable superiority for Unilever. To support this, we have embarked on a fragrance transformation journey to deliver world-class fragrances for our Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Home Care Business Groups. This transformation will consist of expert fragrance teams with the skills to design and formulate winning fragrances.

Job Purpose:

Our mission as the Fragrance Innovation team is to elevate consumers’ experiences by delivering delightful fragrances. We have several exciting opportunities for Fragrance Experts, with not only a passion for fragrance, but a passion to create rewarding experience for the consumers we serve; and in doing so making a positive difference to their lives.

You will be leading the Global Fragrance Design projects for Unilever, working as the interface between perfumers, category teams and Fragrance House partners, to deliver excellence in all aspects of cross-category perfumery. 

Main Responsibilities

The focus of the Fragrance Design Manager is to lead and evaluate fragrance creation and selection, being the fragrance expert within a wide range of functions (R&D, marketing, supply management). The core responsibilities of the role are:

• Lead a fragrance team in development of fragrances for key global brands and products
• Continuously building Unilever’s internal global fragrance capability
• Translate fragrance trends, consumer insights, category strategy and an in-depth understanding of our Brands in the markets in which they exist into fragrance briefs to inspire the best from per. 
• Lead the brief; working closely with perfumers, category teams and other Fragrance Development Managers to manage the fragrance development process, internally and externally, assessing fragrances and making fragrance recommendations across all project types (innovation, regulatory)
• Ensure fragrance regulatory and safety compliance across markets
• Work in close collaboration with all of the interfaces (formulation, brand, procurement), to optimise fragrance delivery and improve value 

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Industry experience in fragrance evaluation and development, in a Fragrance House would be an advantage
• Hair care category expertise
• The job requires a high level of olfactive ability coupled with an inquisitive passion to understand consumer preference in fragrance, being their voice in the creation of new fragrances
• Able to prioritize complex workloads, seamlessly working across multiple time zones and self-motivate.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, using positive influence to gain support for transformational programmes
• Experience in managing individuals
• A born leader: This job requires the candidate to be an empowered leader in order to operate with independence and agility.  You will work with teams from multiple cultures and business backgrounds with differing opinions and motivations. You will need to find creative solutions to guide decision making.
• You’re a storyteller: Fragrance is where science meets art . Storytelling is a powerful tool when working with fragrances and communicating the fragrance agenda.
• Forward-thinking: You must be intrigued by and be aware of trends, competitor activities and plans for other brands in our business as constant sources of inspiration and intelligence. 
• Love to win and having fun doing it: Fragrance is not an exact science. You must have the drive to create winning fragrances and have the passion to keep Unilever fragrance at the forefront of innovation with digital tools and new methodologies.
• A culture & change champion: The role and the context in which we operate is a very dynamic one and you must be passionate about our consumers, their needs, concerns, like and dislikes and driven to find creative change solutions.
• You will have a ‘digital mindset’ towards your way of working to ensure that data and insights are captured, maximised and used across the business.

NOTES

About Unilever 

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 Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a 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’  

What We Offer 

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. 

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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