Activation & Creation Perfumer
Givaudan · Bangkok
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Location : Bangkok Satellite Creative Centre
Reporting to Regional Head , F&B APAC
Purpose
Develop winning fragrances in areas of specialization. Work internally with commercial and development teams to build market and consumer understanding. Represent Givaudan with key clients. Actively support global and regional initiatives.
Core Responsibilities
• Rework and optimize formulas selected from the Galleria for submission on L&R briefs, achieving maximum efficiency with minimal modifications while maintaining olfactive integrity and performance.
• Independently and collaboratively adapt winning fragrance themes across multiple product bases, price points, market requirements, and regulatory norms, in alignment with evaluation feedback and business needs.
• Partner closely with originating perfumers, evaluators, category teams, and technical stakeholders to ensure successful fragrance activation and deployment across categories and customer opportunities.
• Proactively contribute to enriching and maintaining the Galleria portfolio by identifying and filling olfactive, market, and category gaps with relevant fragrance solutions.
• Support category teams, development, and sales teams on long-tail and regional L&R customer projects, providing agile fragrance creation and activation expertise when needed.
• Create original fragrance compositions aligned with customer briefs, market trends, brand positioning, and technical requirements across relevant product categories.
• Translate consumer insights, olfactive trends, and customer expectations into innovative fragrance concepts that support business growth and differentiation.
• Balance creativity with commercial awareness by delivering fragrances that meet performance, cost, speed, and regulatory objectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with evaluators, marketing, consumer insight, and technical teams to drive fragrance innovation and project success.
• Maintain awareness of market trends, competitor activity, raw material developments, and emerging olfactive directions to continuously strengthen the fragrance portfolio and creative output.
Academic Background
University Degree preferred: science/chemistry or other suitable field of study
Verbal and written command of English
Proficiency in one or more additional languages is an asset
Basic proficiency using common PC applications
Successful and consistent career as Perfumer, with mastery of all corresponding skills required, or equivalent background
Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Perfumer
Professional Experience
Successful and consistent career at a Perfumer II level, having reached and exceeded corresponding performance objectives.
Strong and proven track record of wins in given area(s) of specialization.
Starts to be considered as an ingredient and formulation expert in given area(s) of specialization.
Minimum of 4-6+ years of experience at a Perfumer II level, and mastery of 80% of competencies for Senior Perfumer I level at time of promotion.
Technical Skills - Fragrance Creation, Ingredients & Formulation
Demonstrates ability to develop, manage and constantly enrich a portfolio of winning themes and perfumes from the gallery
Demonstrates a sound base of technical skills, competencies and knowledge in area(s) of specialty
Demonstrates a sound knowledge of specialties and captives as well as of relevant technologies.
Demonstrates ability to apply fragrance creations to other categories.
Systems, Processes, RAPS/Legislation
Masters all relevant systems, processes and has a sound knowledge of RAPS and the legislative framework.
General Business Skills
Competent at managing own project portfolio, setting priorities and managing resources involved in projects
Competent to work effectively with all departments in development process on a regional and global level
Develop ability to work collaboratively in the modification process (P2P)
Business Knowledge
Client Knowledge and Relationship
Effectively supports Sales, Marketing and Development with customer interactions, understands customer organization and decision making, and is able to support submissions with rationale and relevant story telling.
Market Knowledge
Demonstrates solid knowledge of F&F industry
Demonstrates a good understanding of general market dynamics, including best sellers, best smellers, novelties, etc. across multiple geographies
General Business Understanding
Can articulate Givaudan’s brand and value proposition to influence customers
Has a basic understanding of relevant business areas and concepts, such as finance, product costing, Fragrance Ingredients Management, supply chain, etc. to influence win rate and profitability.
Self-Management and Leadership
Communicates effectively across functions and geographies
Learns from experiences; handles mistakes with poise
Readily seeks and accepts advice from colleagues
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.
Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.