Sr. Manager, Innovation & Technical, B&C, P&B

Job Title: Sr. Manager, Innovation & Technical, B&C, P&B

City, Country: Shanghai, China

Join us to lead technical service, application development, and innovation for Beauty and Care in China. You will turn customer needs, market trends, and scientific capabilities into differentiated formulations and commercially relevant solutions. Working closely with customers and local and global teams, you will help accelerate opportunities while protecting valuable knowledge. This role offers the chance to guide a technical team and shape locally relevant innovation across skin, sun, hair, and scalp care.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead customer-facing technical service, translating customer briefs and market needs into differentiated solutions and qualified commercial opportunities.
• Guide product selection, formulation development, troubleshooting, and technical recommendations for customer visits, workshops, seminars, and innovation sessions.
• Develop guide formulations, customer-specific solutions, demonstrations, and technical packages combining ingredients, evidence, claims, and application expertise.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to qualify opportunities, set technical priorities, strengthen customer value propositions, and support project conversion.
• Manage technical projects from initial brief through formulation, testing, recommendation, and commercialization, coordinating with relevant scientific and regulatory experts.
• Lead the China application laboratory, technical team, resources, documentation, budget, quality, safety, security, and innovation and intellectual property practices.

We offer

• A visible leadership role where your technical expertise can influence customers, innovation priorities, and business growth in China.
• Opportunities to work across skin care, sun care, hair care, scalp care, and emerging beauty applications.
• Collaboration with local, regional, and global experts across science, innovation, marketing, regulatory affairs, claims, and intellectual property.
• The opportunity to build technical capabilities, coach colleagues, and create reusable formulation and customer-support resources.
• A science-led environment that encourages curiosity, responsible innovation, and locally relevant solutions.
• A collaborative culture where your ideas, experience, and voice contribute to meaningful progress.

You Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in cosmetic science, chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmacy, biology, materials science, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience in technical service, application development, formulation, technical marketing, or business development within personal care, beauty, or cosmetic ingredients.
• Hands-on formulation experience in skin care, sun care, hair care, or scalp care, with broader category experience welcomed.
• Experience managing customer technical projects from brief and testing through recommendation and commercialization.
• Knowledge of cosmetic ingredients, application testing, technical documentation, and intellectual property principles related to research and development.
• Clear communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and technical writing skills in Chinese and English, together with a collaborative and accountable approach.

About dsm-firmenich

At dsm-firmenich, we don’t just meet expectations – we go beyond them. Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day. Whether it’s fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that’s better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavor, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

And while you’re making a difference, we’ll make sure you’re growing too. With learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here. And your ideas? They’re essential to our future.

Because real progress only happens when we go beyond, together.

Our application process

Interested in this position? Please apply on-line by uploading your resume in English via our career portal (www.dsm-firmenich.com/careers).

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement

At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.

And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we’re here to help – just let us know what you need, and we’ll do everything we can to make it work.

Agency statement

We’re managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you’re applying as an individual, we’d love to hear from you. We’re not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.