Job Summary
At IFF, the heart of our company is fueled by a sense of discovery, constantly asking “what if?” That passion for exploration drives us to co-create unique scents and tastes in fine fragrances and beauty, detergents and household goods, as well as beloved foods and beverages.
You will be part of the Scent Creation, Design & Innovation team, more specifically in a department in charge of digital transformation with Scent. The position is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
As a Data Scientist, you will create and improve IFF creative toolset. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary environment constituted of other data scientist, engineers and Scent Creative teams. This position will bring scientific rigor and digital approach to the challenges of fragrance creation.
Together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
Develop the data science capability within the Scent Creation Design and Innovation department.
Contribute to the development of new tools to accelerate and enhance Fragrance Creation (beta version models).
Link with IT team based in Chennai / India and ensure effective integration of beta version tools into corporate application system.
Research and develop analysis, optimization methods to generate competitive insights and formulate into actionable knowledge.
Explore potential areas where data science should be deployed over IFF.
Identify potential challenges or risks and provide the information to stakeholders.
Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced analytical methods as needed. Conduct analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.
Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale. Develop comprehensive knowledge of IFF data structures and metrics, advocating for changes needed for fragrance development.
What Makes You the Right Fit
Master’s degree in Machine Learning, applied mathematics or computer science (Grandes Ecoles preferred).
Excellent algorithmic and programming skills (Python mandatory) – Mandatory knowledge of graphs both programmatically (GNN for analysis & generation) and algorithmically (Dijkstra, Bellman, maximum flow, Ford & Fulkerson, community detection,…) .
You are ease with ML/MLOps Ecosystem for Python (Polar, UV, Pydantic, FastAPI, scikit-learn)
You know how to translate a business problem into a model and an algorithmic strategy.
How Would You Stand Out?
You have real interest in perfumery and fragrance formulation.
Excellent communication, organization, interpersonal and presentation skills.
Demonstrated leadership and self-direction. Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem. Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Be a creative force.
Self-sufficient.
Why Choose Us?
Home office opportunity
Training opportunities
Learning and development programs
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability. Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
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What We Do
Meet IFF:
We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs.
An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave.
With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same.
Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet.
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