Job Summary
Are you ready to support the creation of innovative fragrances while gaining hands-on experience across fine fragrance and home care applications?IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Scent: Harnessing the full emotional power of scent, driven by pioneering creativity, science, consumer expertise and a mindful approach to fragrance design.
The role is based in Holmdel, NJ, USA (on-site).
Be part of a creative, detail-oriented, and collaborative team where together we can achieve excellence and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Prepare and compound fragrance formulas accurately based on perfumer instructions
- Weigh and handle raw materials in accordance with good laboratory and manufacturing practices
- Support fragrance development across fine fragrance and home care/fabric care applications
- Prepare and deliver fragrance samples for internal evaluation and application testing
- Apply fragrances into various bases, ensuring correct preparation, conditioning, and labeling
- Manage raw materials, including labeling, shelf-life control, replenishment, and contamination prevention
- Maintain laboratory equipment and support housekeeping and inventory control activities
- Complete administrative processes related to compounding, sampling, and laboratory workflows
- Ensure compliance with safety, health, environmental (SHE), and sustainability standards
What Makes You the Right Fit
Required:
- High school diploma, technical degree, or equivalent
- Early career experience ( at least 1 year, including internships) in a laboratory or technical environment
- Basic understanding of chemical handling and safety protocols
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in compounding activities
- Ability to follow structured procedures and good laboratory practices
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to read and understand English
Preferred:
- Exposure to automated systems or task management tools
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience in fragrance compounding or perfume laboratory environments
- Exposure to fine fragrance or home care applications
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple sample requests
Why Choose Us?
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Hands-on learning in fragrance creation and application
- Exposure to both fine fragrance and home care innovation
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Career growth opportunities within a global organization
- Structured onboarding and continuous training 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
Salary Ranges:
Skills Required
- High school diploma, technical degree, or equivalent
- Early career experience (at least 1 year, including internships) in a laboratory or technical environment
- Basic understanding of chemical handling and safety protocols
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in compounding activities
- Ability to follow structured procedures and good laboratory practices
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to read and understand English
- Exposure to automated systems or task management tools
- Experience in fragrance compounding or perfume laboratory environments
- Exposure to fine fragrance or home care applications
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple sample requests
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
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. Explore what sets us apart.
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