Scientist - Fabric & Home Category
International Flavors & Fragrances
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
As Scientist in Value-to-Market (V2M) team within the Scent Technology and Innovation department, you will work together with Perfumers, Commercial and Operations teams to build technical & consumer insight, create and deliver innovative technologies and optimum scent solutions to our customers in Home & Fabric category.You will be responsible for providing the required technical support to Value-to-Market projects, commercial & customer requests and driving short term innovations answering the consumer needs. As pro-active lead and in close collaboration with other teams, such as commercial and Scent Design Managers and perfumers, you will define the optimum test set-up, execute, and translate the learnings into insights and recommendations to the relevant team.The role is Mumbai, India based.How you will Contribute
- Drive the Value-to-Market technical support & bring the business relevant solutions to answer commercials and customers' needs, including troubleshooting on fragrance applications, support claims, promoting IFF technologies etc.
- Define the optimum tests, execute, and reporting. Translating the learnings into recommendation for the creation of scent solution.
- Support the innovation deployment to internal and external stakeholders/customers.
- Conceive, design technical studies, conduct simple patent search to build understanding on Home and Fabric Care product formulations and ingredients.
- Pro-actively react to the trends and customer & consumer needs bringing new opportunities.
- Participate in customer meetings, present results and technical insights, and promote IFF scent solutions.
- Participate in fragrance evaluation panels.
- Follow safe laboratory practices.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Science & Technology, Chemical engineering or any other relevant discipline.
- Minimum 4-5 years' experience in the chemical, consumer goods or fragrance industry.
- Experience in product application/development.
- Experience working in fragrance/flavor or fast-moving consumer goods industry.
- Knowledgeable in lab safety, relevant application, raw materials and chemical processes.
- Broad chemistry knowledge (organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, colloid chemistry, surfactants, rheology, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Efficient planning and project management skills.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams either as a team member or project lead.
- Result driven and proven track record in problem solving.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and has a solutions-focused approach. (Flexible & Agile, Hands-on mentality).
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal communication and writing skills.
- Design of Experiment (DoE).
- Master's degree in science & Technology, Chemistry, or related discipline.
- 2 years' experience in Go-to-Market environment.
- Knowledge on consumer good formulations, polymer, surfactant.
- Good olfactory evaluation skills.
- IP Knowledge.