2025 Internship Program - Fragrance Development Intern - New York, NY

2025 Internship Program – Fragrance Development Intern
New York City, NY, US

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If you’re looking to grow your network and gain new skills within a global company, an internship with dsm-firmenich could be the program for you. Our summer internships provide students opportunities to work on real business projects and gain invaluable professional experience. As an intern, you’ll have exposure to many different areas of a global flavors, fragrances, and ingredients organization that works with some of the biggest brands in the world, along with opportunities to network with your peers and leadership. From engaging events to mentoring opportunities and valuable resume-building experiences, we’re committed to preparing you for a fulfilling and enduring career, both at dsm-firmenich and beyond. We are currently looking for a Fragrance Development Intern at our New York City office. 

The FDM Intern plays a key role in the Fine Fragrance creative process by directly supporting the entire FDM team activity and indirectly supporting a number of tangential functions including Perfumers, Marketing,/Commmunications, Sales and Consumer Insights. A highlight of this role is the gathering, tracking, classifying, communicating and distributing of regional market products, new launches and product information to the internal creation teams across the globe. In addition, the FDM Intern provides a variety of admin support to the FDM group for both internal and external needs, giving him/her exposure to and knowledge of a diverse range of clients, projects, platforms, tools and skills.  

The 2025 dsm-firmenich Summer Internship Program will begin June 9th, 2025 and run through August 14, 2025

Our standard working hours are Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week)

Join our Fine Fragrance Experience Marketing team as an intern and gain invaluable professional experience. Enhance your skills and contribute to real projects that have visibility across the business through a Summer internship. Come discover all we have to offer!

At dsm-firmenich, being a force for good is not optional. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is a shared responsibility woven into our daily work to not only benefit our People, Customers & Communities but also drive value.  Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage new fragrance launches and be the key contact for fine fragrance purchasing, researching, tracking and sharing of new launch information, coordinating their olfactive classifications and uploading the new information to internal databases. 
• Be the key local contact for international affiliates with regards to market products, references, sample exchanges, market tests and olfactive tools. 
• Provide technical support for innovation and consumer tools, including sample preparation, bookings and feedback gathering. 
• Support the FDM Team with administrative responsibilities, such as Collection maintenance, pulling fragrances from product room, making samples of new launches, maintaining the fragrance refrigerators, requesting office supplies, preparing materials for olfactive trainings and wearing fragrances for FDMs and perfumers to evaluate. Occasional additional admin support requested for other functions include sampling, expert panel involvement and office merchandising.   
• Provide administrative and secretarial support to the VP FF Development, including team and VP calendar coordination; Utilize various software applications, relational databases, statistical packages and light graphic design to assemble, and format data and/or reports.

We bring 

• High challenge and high reward environment
• Culture that values diversity, where people are at the heart of the company
• Opportunity to work for a company that cares about the environment, setting and achieving ambitious sustainability objectives
• A firm belief that working together with our customers is the key to achieving great things
• An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future
• We offer competitive pay, career growth opportunities, and outstanding benefit programs

You bring

• Currently working on completion of a Bachelor’s degree  
• Candidates must be available to work full-time beginning on June 9, 2025 – August 14, 2025 
• Any experience at a fragrance house or a retail brand is appreciated (not a must).
• Hard work ethic with a passion for fragrance
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Organized, able to multi-task, while maintaining a strong attention to detail

The hourly rate for this position is $23.00 - $26.00 per hour.  Compensation will be dependent on factors that include location, education, training, specific skills, and years of experience. 

dsm-firmenich is fully dedicated to inclusion because when people feel engaged and empowered, their creativity and innovation drives unprecedented progress. We aim to build a workplace where opportunity really is equal, so everyone can thrive. We do not discriminate: there’s a place for everyone at dsm-firmenich.  

As a committed equal opportunity employer, we ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and fair. We encourage  the recruitment of a diverse workforce, representative of the communities in which we work, by using inclusive language, diverse interview panels, diversified sourcing strategies. Selection is based on qualifications, competency, experience, performance history and fit with the team to advance fair and equitable opportunity.    

Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, backgrounds, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.   

We are committed to providing reasonable support for disabled applicants in our recruiting process. Should you need assistance, and are comfortable to share this, please let us know.  

As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. With our comprehensive range of solutions, with natural and renewable ingredients and renowned science and technology capabilities, we work to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. dsm-firmenich is a Swiss-Dutch company, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in almost 60 countries and revenues of more than €12 billion. With a diverse, worldwide team of nearly 30,000 employees, we bring progress to life™ every day, everywhere, for billions of people.  

Please note this is a direct search led by dsm-firmenich. We only accept applications from candidates, not from agencies nor subject to agency’s fees, percentages or similar.