Job Description

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.
In Singapore, you'll be at the centre of every innovation, creation and solution available to the entire Asia-pacific region. Working with our research, creation and production units, as well as our renowned perfumery school, you'll make us a greater force for good. Every day, your passion, your creativity, and your expertise will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Fragrance Development Intern - Your future position?
Location: Pioneer, Singapore
Reporting to: Head of Applications & Creations Labs

Purpose

This is a unique opportunity for your personal and professional development. You will get to experience up-close how we bridge science and arts to create unique olfactive signa-tures for a most diverse range of products.

Our "Creative Fragrances Managers/Evaluators" are olfactive experts, whose primary goal is to answer customer briefs by guiding perfumers in the development of new fragrances that will answer the needs of our clients and their consumers.

To do so, CFMs/Evaluators need to have a good understanding of the market, prevailing consumer behavior, current olfactive preferences, and future trends.

As an intern in the Givaudan Fragrance Development Team, you will:

• Learn the secrets of the fragrance development process by getting hands on experience to compound fra-grance oils and making illustration samples alongside Laboratory experts and learn to smell and evaluate the samples by getting trained with experienced CFMs and with Marketing, Consumer Market Insight team members.
• You will also interact with other stake-holders such as Key Account Managers, Perfumers and Industry experts.
• You will rotate in Compounding & Applications Lab and Evaluation team with 3-4 months in each area to be able to get hands on knowledge and holistic experience of Fragrance Development process.
• You will report to a Creative Fragrance Manager/Lab Manager and in this exciting role you will learn and support the below tasks:
• Develop basic fragrance understanding including history, raw materials, fragrance families and perfume archetypes through guided learning and self-study.
• Undertake assignments in category teams and develop an understanding of making & evaluation protocols, market and consumer dynamics, best sellers and best smellers with-in the categories.
• Understand the brief process and develop ability to support CFM on simple briefs, using Givaudan's systems.
• Get hands on knowledge and understanding of compounding oils and making illustration samples.
• Undertake assignments in other departments to gain in-depth understanding of related functions in the organization such as Marketing or Consumer Market Insights.
• Support CFM in all aspects of the brief activity by developing and adapting fragrances for the Southeast Asian market.
• Under CFM supervision, collaborate with commercial team to identify/ interpret business needs and objectives.
• Help analyze and interpret proactive and brief-related consumer market studies.

You?
Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world, who is looking for a new challenge and wants to bring a personal contribution to the world? Then come and join us - and impact your world. Be ready to touch the lives of millions, creating for happier, healthier lives with love for nature.

The Skills required are:

• Currently pursuing Diploma/Bachelor's Degree in any of the sciences/technology discipline
• Verbal and written command of English
• Interest for Fragrance
• Creative mindset
• Demonstrate proficiency in using common PC applications, ideally Google Suite apps (Google Drive, Google Sheet, Google Doc, Google Slides, G-mail...etc..)
• Willingness to acquire competent olfactory skills: ability to define, recognize and memorize olfactory notes and fragrance language terms and determine olfactory directions (to be assessed by standardized olfactory test).
• Meticulousness to compound oils by weighing raw materials to precisions and dose it into different applications.
• Willingness to acquire and incorporate basic understanding of consumer olfactory preferences into fragrance evaluation
• Ability to build competent knowledge of fragrance applications across categories and technical ability to understand basic physico-chemical elements of formulation and reac-tions/interactions across different bases
• Excellent presentations skills and able to communicate clearly and concisely

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Join us and Impact Your World

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.