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Director, Fragrance Industrialization & Optimization

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Job Summary

Senior leadership role coordinating fragrance industrialization and optimization across perfumery operations, growth office, and supply chain. Drives scale-up of new fragrance products, optimizes formulations and materials for cost, sustainability, and manufacturability, and partners with cross-functional teams to align creative development with operational and regulatory requirements across multiple manufacturing sites.

Location: Geneva, Paris, Barcelona

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Executive & General Management

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Establish efficient and reliable scaling up process for perfumery liquid technologies, including industrializing new products, new formulations, and new processes.
•Ensure formulas introduced for manufacturing are cost-effective, manufacturable, and supply-resilient.
•Lead process and material optimization of perfumery liquid technologies to reduce total delivery costs and improve sustainability.
•Develop and optimize fragrance solutions in manufacturing formulations that meet regulatory, safety, quality and technical requirements; support scalability and supply chain efficiency.
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams (growth office, regulatory, R&D, SNO, procurement) to align on strategic goals and ensure Right First Time formulation transfer across plants.

Key Requirements

•+8 years of hands-on experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with manufacturing process optimization knowledge, preferably in perfume liquid technologies and a proven track record of technical (re)formulation.
•BSc or MSc in engineering, chemistry, fragrance technology or related fields.
•Fluent in English and preferably French; knowledge of another language is a plus.
•Strong understanding of perfume raw material functions, regulatory & safety constraints; experience with operations, procurement, or supply chain teams.
•Excellent communication, interpersonal, project management, and presentation skills; ability to present to senior leaders.

Experience:8+ yearsFragranceFMCGSupply chainManufacturing

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationInterpersonalProject managementPresentationTeam collaboration

Languages:EnglishFrench

Tech Stack:GCPGMPData analysisFormulationProcess optimization

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Industry: Chemical Manufacturing

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