Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description

The Fragrance Evaluator & Sensory Researcher plays a key role in the development and assessment of perfumes and scented products. The position will provide technical perfumery support to co-create, ideate and incubate with Fragrance Houses, internal partners and external partners to create breakthrough innovations with the Estee Lauder Companies’ portfolio of brands.

As part of the ground-breaking Atelier team and fragrance Product Development organization, this role will be in service of the global brands, contributing to end-to-end fragrance support, boosting product innovation, driving go-to-market speed & agility, and enhance artisanal quality of ELC products. This individual will bring new fragrance capabilities to the enterprise as we grow and develop in this category.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Support fragrance evaluation activities between Upstream Innovation and New Product Launch (NPL).
• Responsible for assessing fragrance (or related products’) performance and quality, and running sensory/consumer panels.
• Lead technical qualification of the fragrance innovation programs.
• Provide assurance of technical readiness pre-launch.
• Conduct stability on raw materials and new innovative technologies.
• Generate specifications for fragrance oils and finished products.
• Provide odor evaluation on raw materials and finished products to support new development.
• Establish fragrance sensory methods for different product types
• Manage proprietary evaluation test and olfactive consumer panels

Qualifications

• College Degree Required, graduate from ISIPCA or similar school, with 2+ years of experience and proven track record in successful launch of fragrances.
• OR 2-3 years fragrance development experience either working for a key luxury and / or prestige fragrance brand and /or for a global fragrance house.
• Technical rigor and attention to detail (process, record keeping, fragrance raw materials management)
• Independent and self-motivated, pro-active
• Good level in English for daily communication, and emails is a plus

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Estée Lauder Companies, we are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse work environment. We believe that every individual brings unique value and we strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, and disabilities.