Fragrance Evaluator

**The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.**is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M-A-C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

**Description**:
The **_Fragrance Evaluator & Sensory Researcher_** plays a key role in the development and assessment of perfumes and scented products. The position will provide technical perfumery support to co-create, ideate and incubate with Fragrance Houses, internal partners and external partners to create breakthrough innovations with the Estee Lauder Companies’ portfolio of brands.

As part of the ground-breaking Atelier team and fragrance Product Development organization, this role will be in service of the global brands, contributing to end-to-end fragrance support, boosting product innovation, driving go-to-market speed & agility, and enhance artisanal quality of ELC products. This individual will bring new fragrance capabilities to the enterprise as we grow and develop in this category.

**Principal Accountabilities**:

- Support fragrance evaluation activities between Upstream Innovation and New Product Launch (NPL).
- Responsible for assessing fragrance (or related products’) performance and quality, and running sensory/consumer panels.
- Lead technical qualification of the fragrance innovation programs.
- Provide assurance of technical readiness pre-launch.
- Conduct stability on raw materials and new innovative technologies.
- Generate specifications for fragrance oils and finished products.
- Provide odor evaluation on raw materials and finished products to support new development.
- Establish fragrance sensory methods for different product types
- Manage proprietary evaluation test and olfactive consumer panels

**Qualifications**:

- College Degree Required, graduate from ISIPCA or similar school, with 2+ years of experience and proven track record in successful launch of fragrances.
- OR 2-3 years fragrance development experience either working for a key luxury and / or prestige fragrance brand and /or for a global fragrance house.
- Technical rigor and attention to detail (process, record keeping, fragrance raw materials management)
- Independent and self-motivated, pro-active

**Equal Opportunity Employer