OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Perfume creation is an essential element of the product development process at Procter & Gamble. Our Beauty Brands, ranging from Hair Care, Body Care and Skin Care, are used by Billions of consumers around the world and have some of the most iconic & irresistibly delightful fragrances in consumer products.
Developing a superior fragrance for a P&G product requires a combination of strong scientific and artistic skills, understanding of our brand equities, consumer needs, as well as mechanistic understanding P&G's technologies.
If this sounds exciting to you, read on!
YOUR TEAM
At the Singapore Innovation Center, you will be part of a passionate team of Perfumers and Perfume Designers with expertise across Categories and Regions. You will have the opportunity to work in multi-functional teams and engage with both internal and external partners.
HOW SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
The successful candidate will undergo a comprehensive 1-2 years' P&G perfumery program that includes a detailed understanding of the fundamental science and technology of perfumery as well as formulation strategies. In this role, achieving success can be described as below:
- Contribute to category growth through irresistible superior fragrances for Asia Beauty Care products.
- Develop Mastery in regional consumer’s scent needs and preferences. Discover insights in perfume formulation that are broadly re-applicable.
- Develop and expand scientific models and tools that enable creation of new consumer winning perfume formulations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create irresistibly superior fragrances for our Beauty Care products based on technical briefs from the Category teams.
- Participate in olfactory evaluations of fragrances at consumer relevant touch points with perfume designers.
- Generate and interpret data that will help develop fragrances, solve problems, and make discoveries against project needs and problem resolution.
- Solve technical challenges typically encountered during the creation of fragrances for P&G products.
- Develop cross-functional networking skills for reapplying knowledge (methods, perfume, technologies) across categories.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree in Science or Engineering with a strong aptitude for chemistry or related areas.
- 3 years formal training / experience in Perfumery. Experience / understanding of Asian consumers olfactive preferences and consumer goods market.
- Strong passion for the art and science of perfumery often measured by the predilection for perseverance, persistent scientific approach as well as evidence of aesthetic intuition.
- An acute sense of smell. You must pass an odor acuity test to determine the abilities to discriminate odors and build odor memory. This will be reviewed and/or monitored by a Senior or Master Perfumer.
- Demonstrate a strong creative talent and a passion to use this creativity on the job, and ability to immerse in new subject matter, be self-motivated, learn quickly and develop mastery, perseverance and resilience in the face of challenges and failure.
- Passion for getting into the lab, developing perfume formulas through careful experimentation and identifies ways to improve and accelerate perfume creation through modeling and Digital capabilities.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, presentation & communication skills (oral & written communication) to work with people from different cultures and levels, both internally and externally, to bring out the best skills and capabilities in pursuit of winning perfumes.
ABOUT US
We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.
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Our consumers are diverse and our talents - internally - mirror this diversity to best serve it. That is why we’re committed to building a winning culture based on Inclusion and our ideal candidate is passionate about the same principle: you will join our daily effort of being “in touch” so we craft brands and products to improve the lives of the world’s consumers now and in the future. We want you to inspire us with your unrivaled ideas.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.
