Product Development Manager

• Ideate and present new fragrance concepts to VP & CEO/ Co-Founder
• Create fragrance briefs for new concepts, identify benchmarks and brief fragrance house partners
• Identify and capitalize on new growth/white space opportunities through competitive analysis
• Initiate competitive reviews and maintain a pulse on key emerging trends within the fine fragrance, home fragrance and car fragrance segments
• Purchases competitive products. Organizes distribution of these products; tracks and records feedback from Product Development Team
• Manage fragrance panel testing & efficacy testing
• Manage pricing strategy for owned launches, including pricing scales, COG targets, recommended SRPs
• Manage COG and target margins for owned projects
• Maintains all PD documents and charts on excel, Word, PowerPoint, Jira & Smartsheets
• Manage timelines and adherence to project milestones
• Manage production standards for the assigned categories
• Route submissions for evaluation and gathering/reporting feedback to inform product redirect or approvals.
• Manage, arrange, and maintain weekly touch bases with contract formulation labs/manufacturers for formula developments and/or reformulation updates.
• Collaborate closely with Operations and Marketing on product approval process and relay to manufacturers or laboratories as needed.
• Coordinates all product formulations- opening packages, distributing samples, labeling and organizing samples. Tracking development/ feedback and redirections in excel
• Responsible for organizing and keeping track of all Product Development samples, assets and various materials
• Develops and updates copy documents for artworks and liaises with graphic designers and package development
• Assists any product registration partner by gathering all paperwork needed to register or update products registration files

What You’ll Need to Have:

• Passion for the fragrance industry and knowledge of the current trends.
• Keen sense of smell
• Related College degree and 4-5 years experience
• Great collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever changing start-up environment.
• Ability to solve problems and work independently.