Fragrance Development Manager

Company Description

Pittie Group is a diversified business conglomerate with a core focus on realty, consumer products, media & entertainment, and logistics & supply chain. The Group emphasizes research, innovation, and collaboration to tap into potential opportunities. Pittie Realty has successfully delivered multiple projects across India, while Pittie Consumer brands, such as Shubhkart and Chakaachak India, provide quality products for spiritual and cleaning needs. Additionally, the Group is associated with Patanjali for FMCG distribution and collaborates with Church & Dwight in beauty and personal care products. Pittie Media operates IN10 Media, and Pittie Logistics offers comprehensive supply-chain solutions.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Fragrance Development Manager, located in Navi Mumbai. The Fragrance Development Manager will oversee the development of new fragrances, manage fragrance projects, and ensure that products meet company standards and market demands. Responsibilities include conducting research and analysis, collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing development timelines, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

• R&D Fragrance development manager responsible to create new fragrance & Flavour.
• R&D Fragrance development manager working across various NPD Projects for R&D Category Agarbatti, Air-freshener, Home and personal care, Foods and Beverages projects.
• Responsible for the perfume blending, stability testing and review and approval of analytical and chromatographic data.
• Projects may include, but not limited to alternate RM vendor’s qualification, various NPD Projects, analytical method transfer and analytical method validation.
• Writing stability protocols, reports and conducting stability studies and laboratory work including interpretation and reporting of results for projects as required. Utilize technical expertise to develop new fragrance, technologies and benefits to address relevant consumer needs in support of brand initiatives.
• Lead fragrance development on key initiatives including lab prototyping, stability studies, consumer tests, claims substantiation, scale up, technology transfer etc.
• Design and execute pilot and full-scale manufacturing strategy, in collaboration with Supply Technical team, validate new processes ensuring that they can be properly controlled and reproduced in continuous commercial manufacturing.
• Prepares and submits reports as required, such as proposed projects reports, current studies and investigations, validation reports, project status reports, project cost, project timelines, project folders. Develops spreadsheets that define process capabilities.
• To support and conduct industrial trials as required to produce test samples, stability studies and method development and method validation for the various NPD Projects, manufacturing/analysis of lab samples for evaluation, consumer testing, etc. Responsible for test method and formulation documents (BOM, MOM, Specification) preparation/updating (RM & FG) as and when required.
• Responsible to guide subordinates or new joiners during experimental and laboratory work.
• To be responsible for calibration of laboratory instruments, working standard qualification and another lab support as when required.
• To be responsible for the maintenance of laboratory equipment, working space, lab consumables and inventory and ensure with other colleagues, that the required safety measures are in place.