Job Description

Overview of role

Perfume creation is an essential element of the product development process at Procter & Gamble! Our Fabric and Home care products ranging from laundry detergents, fabric enhancers and dish wash liquids have some of most irresistible delightful fragrances in consumer products. Developing a successful perfume for a product requires a combination of strong scientific and artistic skills, understanding of our brand equities, consumer needs, as well as mechanistic understanding P&G's technologies. If this sounds exciting to you, read on!

Your team

Working with the Singapore Flavors & Fragrances team, you will be part of a passionate team of perfumers and technical experts in leading projects across the region and globe. You will have the opportunity work in multi-functional teams and engage with both internal and external partners.

How success looks like

Successful candidate will undergo a comprehensive 1-2 years' P&G perfumery program that includes a detailed understanding of the fundamental science and technology of perfumery and formulation strategies. In this role achieving success can be described as below.

• Contribute to category growth through innovation in product freshness in Asia Fabric & Home Care products.
• Develop a mastery in regional consumer’s scent needs and preference. Discover insights in perfume formulation that are broadly re-applicable.
• Develop and expand scientific models and tools that enable creation of new consumer winning perfume formulation.

Key Responsibilities

• Create irresistible superior perfume formulations for our Fabric and Home Care products based on the technical briefs from the category teams.
• Participate in olfactory evaluations of fragrances with the associated perfume designers at consumer relevant touch points.
• Generate and interpret data that will help to develop fragrances, solve problems, and make discoveries against project needs and problem resolution.
• Solve technical challenges typically encountered during creation of fragrance for P&G products.
• Develop cross-functional networking skills for reapplying knowledge (methods, perfume, technology) across categories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Science or Engineering with a strong aptitude for chemistry or related areas
• Strong passion for the art and science of perfumery often measured by the predilection for perseverance, persistent scientific approach as well as evidence of aesthetic intuition and perfectionism
• Physical Capability - an acute sense of smell. You must pass an odor discrimination test to determine the abilities to discriminate odors and build odor memory. This will be reviewed and/or monitored by a Senior or Master Perfumer.
• Creativity- Demonstrate exceptional olfactive and creative skills. Possess a strong passion to perform the job. This can be shown through hobbies, outside activities, problem solving techniques, and the ability to think “out of the box”.
• Passion - for a lifelong career in Fragrance Design
• Market knowledge - Experience / understanding of Japanese consumers olfactive preferences and consumer goods market
• Language - Fluency in Japanese is a key requirement to be able to interpret and act on panelists’ responses from consumer studies for the Japanese market
• Strong leadership, collaboration, presentation & communication skills (oral & written communication) to work with people from different cultures and levels, both internally and externally

About us We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Visit http://www.pg.com to know more. Our consumers are diverse and our talents - internally - mirror this diversity to best serve it. That is why we’re committed to building a winning culture based on Inclusion and our ideal candidate is passionate about the same principle: you will join our daily effort of being “in touch” so we craft brands and products to improve the lives of the world’s consumers now and in the future. We want you to inspire us with your unrivaled ideas. We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.
Job locations:
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Job Type: Full time Job categories: Research And Development Req No: R000045984