Technical Manager - Scent

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Date:Apr 23, 2024

Location: Dubai, Dubai, AE

Company: IFF Family of Companies

<0 style='font-size: 1em; margin: 0px'>Job Description

At IFF we design fragrance solutions that catch us unaware and transport us to places long forgotten. We are now seeking a motivated and result driven talent to join our Scent division as Technical Manager. Come join IFF where science and creativity meet to create essential solutions for a better world!

As aTechnical Manager,you are skilled at executing customer strategy, showing proficiency in IFF capabilities. You can co-develop with diverse teams, creating new features while addressing customer’s needs. The candidate will report to theCreative Center Directorand be based in our brand-new Scent Creative Center in Dubai, UAE.

Key Responsibilities

• Resolve business relevant technical challenges related to fragrance/ fragrance technology commercialization.

• Build a deep understanding of consumer needs

• Generate holistic understanding of base formulations and technologies including future trends and customer technical needs

• Build understanding of customer and competitor technologies in AMET region

• Generate insights based on IP landscape analyses of fragrance and formulation technologies

• Build understanding of innovation pipeline and existing tools used and developed at IFF

• Partner with evaluation and perfumery teams to develop fragrance solutions leveraging existing technologies and tools

• Lead the development of technical solutions and conduct thorough analysis of stability test results

• Build a relationship of trust based on technical competency with Perfumers, evaluation and commercial teams.

• Lead a technical team through excellent leadership, stretching goal setting, coaching and development.

• Ensure allocation of resources and ensure right focus on projects

• Attend industry and customer conferences give feedback and presentations to relevant stakeholders and customers.

• The incumbent must have the ability to lead sizable technical troubleshooting projects in Go 2 Market context.

• Conduct laboratory trials and follow a design of experiments to solve technical issues related to formulation / stability

• Define testing protocols for technologies and develop demonstrations for customer presentations

• Lead must win/mission critical technical projects

• Present updates on key projects to senior management

• Build an industry leading intimacy supporting customer’s technical staff

• Share technical guidelines with perfumers and evaluation team to ensure product stability and quality is meeting customer expectations and high industry standards.

• Exchange and collaborate with the technical managers in other creative centers/regions.

• Ability to manage a team without direct supervision.

<0 style='font-size: 1em; margin: 0px'>Job Requirements

Required Skills

• Knowledge about laboratory best practices and working instructions

• Knowledge about laboratory safety standards and laboratory equipments

• Colloidal chemistry

• Organic Chemistry, fine fragrance formulations

• Knowledgeable in Personal , home Care formulations and fine fragrances , raw materials and chemicals as well as manufacturing processes and machinery for these products.

• Experience presenting to internal and external customers

• Strategic agility

• Results Orientation

• Customer Orientation

• Leadership

• Development of Subordinates

• Teamwork

• Interpersonal Skills/Communication

• Dealing with Change

• Management of external partnerships

• Business Acumen

• Excellent communication and language skills: English is a must – other languages are a plus

Required Experience

• Master of Science in Chemistry or chemical engineering or any related field.

• Minimum 7 – 10 years’ experience in the cosmetic, consumer goods (preferably Home Care / Personal care) and/or fragrance industry.

• 5 years’ experience of actively managing projects / team