Fragrance Design Leader

Job Title: Fragrance Design Leader

Location: Mumbai HURC

Work Level: 2B

Main Responsibilities
As Fragrance Design Leader for Personal Care, you will be at the forefront of our fragrance transformation journey—creating world-class scents for Personal Care, You’ll have Brand responsibility and lead those projects, working closely with Brand, Perfumers, category teams, fragrance house partners to deliver superior fragrances that delight and inspire.

What You Will Do
• Input into Brand Fragrance Strategy: Developing and implementing the fragrance strategy for Unilever’s brands. Translate brand vision and consumer insights into a creative, forward-thinking fragrance roadmap, ensuring our scents are differentiating and set new standards for excellence.
• Lead Fragrance Creation & Selection: Design and select winning fragrances, translating brand strategy and consumer & trend insights into differentiating creative scent solutions with solid evaluation practices.
• Communication & storytelling: Craft compelling fragrances stories for Fragrance strategy, product launches and brand discussions
• Technical Excellence & Consumer Product Experience: Work closely with R&D colleagues to design the best fragrance formats and bases for consumers. Ensure every fragrance delivers outstanding performance, meets safety and regulatory standards, and creates memorable experiences for our consumers.
• Consumer Insights: Collaborate with market research and R&D team to identify scent insights & recommendations to deliver what consumers love.
• Digital Leadership: Embrace digital tools and data-driven insights to keep Unilever at the cutting edge.
• Portfolio Management: Take responsibility for managing the fragrance portfolio, conducting competitive reviews, and contributing to marketing analysis to ensure Unilever’s brands remain at the forefront of innovation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the key interface between perfumers, category teams, fragrance house partners, and internal functions (R&D, marketing, supply chain). Communicate strategy, approach, and vision effectively to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Team Leadership: Inspire a team of fragrance experts, fostering collaboration and professional growth. Provide guidance and support to ensure high performance and creativity. Demonstrating capability beyond functional expertise
• Global mindset : Champion and contribute to global initiatives, whilst reducing complexity, build strong relationships

What You Will Need To Succeed
We are looking for a person with the right attitude, competencies, and growth mindset. A keen interest in the science and craft of perfumes is key.
• Industry experience in fragrance evaluation and development, in a Fragrance House would be an advantage
• The job requires a high level of olfactive ability coupled with an inquisitive passion to understand consumer preference in fragrance, being their voice in the creation and elevation of our fragrances
• You will have a good sense of smell and understanding of how to classify fragrance hedonics.
• Experience setting up evaluation experiments and execution of said experiments with capturing output of data/findings, experienced in working in a laboratory environment with a keen eye for safe and effective procedures.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, using positive influence to gain support for transformational programmes
• A leader: This job requires the candidate to be an empowered leader in order to operate with independence and agility. You will work with teams from multiple cultures and business backgrounds with differing opinions and motivations. You will need to find creative solutions to guide decision making. and drive for solutions whilst reducing complexity
• You’re a storyteller: Fragrance is where science meets art . Storytelling is a powerful tool when working with fragrances and communicating the fragrance agenda.
• Forward-thinking: You must be intrigued by and be aware of trends, competitor activities and plans for other brands in our business as constant sources of inspiration and intelligence.
• Love to win and having fun doing it: Fragrance is not an exact science. You must have the drive to create winning fragrances and have the passion to keep Unilever fragrance at the forefront of innovation with digital tools and new methodologies.
• A culture & change champion: The role and the context in which we operate is a very dynamic one and you must be passionate about our consumers, their needs, concerns, like and dislikes and driven to find creative change solutions.
• You will have a ‘digital mindset’ towards your way of working to ensure that data and insights are captured, maximised and used across the business.