Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
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 Singapore (hybrid role). Be part of a creative, customer-focused and dedicated team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Develop and execute fragrance strategies aligned with customer needs, market trends, and business profitability.
- Lead the creative fragrance development process by providing olfactive direction, guiding perfumers, and identifying winning fragrance solutions.
- Leverage fragrance expertise and resources including fragrance banks, olfactive terminology, fragrance genealogy, and sensory insights to drive innovation.
- Manage projects effectively by coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking progress, meeting deadlines, and ensuring clear stakeholder communication.
- Apply market, consumer, and brand insights to support fragrance development, identify trends, and uncover future business opportunities.
- Ensure technical, regulatory, and cost compliance by understanding raw material economics, regulatory requirements, and resource optimization.
- Build strong customer and stakeholder relationships through collaboration, presentations, and effective communication of fragrance strategies and solutions.
- Drive knowledge sharing and continuous improvement through fragrance evaluations, project reviews, troubleshooting, reporting, and best-practice application.
- Promote innovation and commercialization by leveraging new technologies, consumer preferences, and holistic scent design strategies to deliver competitive fragrance solutions.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Fragrance, Marketing, Business or any other relevant discipline.
- Minimum 8 to 10 years relevant experience in an international environment.
- Excellent Olfactive communication skills which supports the overall creative process – discriminate, describe (association) and odor memory.
- Ability to effectively identify potential fragrances based on market relevance.
- Solid understanding of functional and technical capabilities, including knowledge of the consumers and different markets.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Expertise in driving olfactive strategy and creative direction.
- Capability in speed to market and innovation cadence.
- Bold and ambitious, driving transformative change.
Why Choose Us?
- An inspiring and dynamic international working environment.
- The opportunity to work in a diverse, multidisciplinary team with passionate and talented professional colleagues.
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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Chemistry, Fragrance, Marketing, Business, or relevant discipline.
- Minimum 8 to 10 years relevant experience in an international environment.
- Excellent olfactive communication skills (discriminate, describe associations, odor memory).
- Ability to identify potential fragrances based on market relevance.
- Solid understanding of functional and technical capabilities, consumer knowledge, and different markets.
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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