Technical perfumer – L'Oréal R&I

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A Day in the Life

As a L’Oréal Technical Perfumer, you will operate at the interface between Fragrance Houses and all internal stakeholders who play a role in fragrance concentrates elaboration. You will:

• Leverage your expertise on ingredients to manage the composition with Fragrance community.
• Partner with Fragrance Design, L4TF, Purchasing and Fragrance Houses to identify key fragrance optimizations in line with L’Oréal internal policies and L’Oréal For the Future objectives. Impulse, implement and monitor action plans.
• Upon need, provide support and share findings on technical challenges to the formulation labs.
• Keep current with ingredients, trends, and regulatory evolutions.

Job requirements :

• Experienced olfactory evaluation skills
• Extensive expertise in raw materials, especially naturals, both olfactory and analytically (Fragrance analysis expertise would be an advantage)
• A strong interest for fragrance (re)-formulation and problem solving
• Team oriented, self-motivated and result-driven
• Flexible and ability to work under tight and multiple deadlines
• At ease with collaborative management

Background :

• Bachelor Degree in Science or equivalent
• Minimum 7 years of experience in the perfume industry
• Experienced in analytical equipment and data interpretation such as GC and GCMS
• Experience in creation and/or reformulations

If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume in PDF. 

L’Oréal Research & Innovation – Where Beauty Meets Science

For more than hundred years, L’Oréal believes that beauty needs Science. In a world now transformed by digital technology and the emergence of new scientific domains, we are confident in our ability to turn these opportunities into major innovations, closely linked to the new consumer expectations all over the world. Science & Technology are allowing us to invent safe, trustable, sustainable & responsible beauty products and experiences that will change people’s lives. 

 L’Oréal Research & Innovation (R&I) has continuously invested upstream in its research with a high level of ambition. Our 4 100 L'Oréal R&I people are talented and highly skilled, located in major markets, working in a cooperative way, open to the world.

The L'Oréal Group is convinced that difference is a deep source of wealth, that allows everyone to grow, to challenge themselves and to go further. We strongly encourage everyone to always dare and never censor themselves. Skills can always be learnt. We will be delighted to exchange with you! 

To discover our scientific and technical functions at l'Oréal Research & Innovation, please check our career website : https://careers.loreal.com/en_US/content/ResearchInnovations?3_4_3=128