Job Description: B&W Fragrance Specialist
Location: Port Sunlight R&D
Job Purpose
Are you passionate about the art and science of fragrance? As part of our innovative team, your mission will be to contribute to the creation, evaluation, and development of unique scents that delight consumers worldwide. You’ll play a key role in exploring olfactive trends, supporting the development of new products, and ensuring our fragrances inspire and excite, aligned with Unilever’s commitment to quality and creativity.
Our purpose within Fragrance Design is to create Desire at Scale through extraordinary fragrance experiences for the consumers we serve across all markets. In the scope of the broader Fragrance Design Programme for Unilever B&W, your role will be to decode the desired consumer experiences and translate them into actionable fragrance design insights and models that bring impact through superior experience design by the broader Fragrance Design Team.
What’s in it for you?
- Build Fragrance Expertise: Utilise your experience in the fragrance industry, or your enthusiasm to learn, to support the olfactive evaluation and design process. You’ll collaborate with perfumers, product developers, and marketing teams to shape the future of our scented product portfolio.
- Olfactive Science: Dive into the world of olfactive science—whether you’re experienced or eager to learn more, you’ll be supported and mentored by industry experts to expand your knowledge and sharpen your sensory skills.
- Innovation & Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, contributing your insights and creativity to develop ground-breaking, consumer-centric products. Your input will help define new fragrance experiences for markets around the globe.
- Continuous Learning: We’re committed to your ongoing development. You’ll have opportunities to participate in training, attend industry events, and be part of a learning culture where curiosity and ambition are celebrated.
Responsibilities
You will work within the B&W Fragrance team, and collaborate with the wider Fragrance Design and Technical Innovation team to bring the consumer perspective into our global portfolio and programmes. This role bridges the technical and the consumer aspects of Fragrance Design through foundational research and data analysis.
The core responsibilities of the role are: .
- Support key Global Brand to deliver key fragrance development elements for the projects for key brands such as Treseme and Sunsilk
- Coordinate Country Campaign Approaches & enable appropriate testing (expert, sensory, consumer) with Consumer Insights and Fragrance Design teams to enable foundational insights to support our broader program strategy.
- Analyse technical and consumer data to uncover macro fragrance preferences and trends, supporting the design of superior fragrance experiences across B&W.
- Support the creation of a comprehensive fragrance central data repository for B&W, in collaboration with digital experts, to be accessible to the fragrance community.
- Work in close collaboration with the wider Fragrance Design, Insights and Technology Teams, developing strong internal and external partnerships and networks to successfully deliver your work.
- Develop and Modify existing methods and approaches to measuring fragrance technical performance
- Support the Fragrance Storytelling program by incorporating the consumer perspective on fragrance into the broader communication strategy within brand equity in key B&W programs.
All About You
We are looking for an exceptional individual with the right attitude, growth mindset, and competencies to support the Fragrance Design Insights Program within the B&W Fragrance Design team. A background in Consumer Technical Insights and a keen interest in learning more about olfactive science and objective fragrance evaluation will be beneficial.
- Strong Organisational as you will have ket Technical Project Leadership responsibilities.
- Excellent experimental skills, you will have a proven track record of designing and executing complex research or experimental programs. You will be knowledgeable about placing objective-led research and will have the ability to interpret results to drive action.
- Data analysis skills, you will have demonstrated experience connecting data to uncover actionable insight and to help deliver the fragrance innovations of the future.
- Collaboration and communication skills, partnering with technical partners, fragrance evaluators, perfumers, multifunctional colleagues, and external partners to help deliver fragrance and technology insights that step-change impact for our fragrance design programs.
- Innovation project experience is desired, you will have a clear understanding of project processes and demonstrable stakeholder management skills
- Digital ‘mindset’ is essential, your way of working will ensure that data, trends and insights are captured and maximized across the fragrance design program.
- Previous experience within fragrance industry, olfactive evaluation or interest in learning more about olfactive science is desired.
Ready to awaken your senses and make a real impact? Join us at Unilever and play your part in creating the future of fragrance!
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About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.
Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’
What We Offer
Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.
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