Beauty & Cosmetic Ingredients Development Manager – Qatar

Location: Doha, Qatar

Employment Type: Full-time

Workplace: Hybrid / Customer-facing

Regional Scope: Qatar with selected GCC projects

Palomba General Trading LLC is seeking a Beauty & Cosmetic Ingredients Development Manager to develop customer projects in the Skincare, Hair Care, Personal Care, Wellness and Premium Beauty sectors.

The role focuses on connecting cosmetic brands, formulators, private-label manufacturers and product-development teams with differentiated botanical extracts, natural actives, essential oils and specialty cosmetic ingredients.

This is not a conventional sales position.

The successful candidate should understand beauty products, consumer expectations and formulation briefs well enough to transform an initial concept into a structured ingredient-development project.

• Develop relationships with cosmetic brands and personal-care manufacturers in Qatar.
• Work directly with Product Development, R&D, Innovation and Purchasing teams.
• Understand new-product briefs for skincare, hair care and body care.
• Identify botanical extracts and natural actives suitable for each project.
• Coordinate samples and technical documentation.
• Support evaluation of ingredients in customer formulations.
• Follow product-development projects from initial concept through ingredient approval.
• Identify emerging beauty concepts relevant to Qatar and the wider GCC.
• Develop concepts around natural, premium and science-supported ingredients.
• Coordinate international suppliers during technical customer projects.
• Support development of customer-specific ingredient combinations.
• Monitor new skincare, hair-care and wellness product trends.
• Support commercial teams once an ingredient has achieved technical acceptance.

Projects may include:

• Botanical extracts
• Natural cosmetic actives
• Saffron extracts
• Pomegranate extracts
• Hibiscus extracts
• Licorice-derived ingredients
• Olive leaf extracts
• Citrus-derived ingredients
• Essential oils
• Natural aromatic ingredients
• Polyphenol-rich botanicals
• Antioxidant ingredients
• Functional botanical blends
• Selected specialty cosmetic ingredients

Skincare

• Hydration
• Brightening concepts
• Antioxidant formulations
• Healthy-ageing concepts
• Sensitive-skin products
• Premium botanical skincare

Hair & Scalp

• Scalp care
• Hair-strength concepts
• Botanical hair treatments
• Premium hair oils
• Natural conditioning concepts

Body & Wellness

• Body care
• Spa products
• Massage products
• Wellness formulations
• Botanical body treatments

The candidate should be comfortable developing concepts such as:

• Middle Eastern botanical skincare
• Premium saffron beauty products
• Antioxidant botanical serums
• Botanical scalp-care concepts
• Natural wellness oils
• Beauty-from-within concepts
• Premium spa formulations
• Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ingredient stories

• 4+ years in Cosmetics, Personal Care, Beauty, Cosmetic Ingredients or related industries.
• Experience working with cosmetic brands or manufacturers.
• Good understanding of skincare, hair-care or body-care product development.
• Experience dealing with R&D or formulation teams.
• Strong interest in botanical and natural ingredients.
• Ability to understand customer product briefs.
• Customer-facing experience required.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Experience in Qatar or GCC beauty markets is highly valued.
• Fluent English required.
• Arabic is strongly preferred.

Relevant candidates may currently work as:

• Cosmetic Ingredients Product Manager
• Beauty Product Development Manager
• Skincare Product Manager
• Cosmetic Ingredients Specialist
• Beauty Innovation Manager
• Technical Sales Manager – Cosmetics
• Personal Care Product Specialist
• Cosmetic Project Manager

• Competitive fixed salary.
• Performance-based bonus.
• Responsibility for Qatar beauty-sector development.
• International botanical and cosmetic ingredient portfolio.
• Direct contact with international ingredient manufacturers.
• Exposure to premium beauty and personal-care brands.
• High autonomy in customer-project development.
• Opportunity to influence future PGT cosmetic and botanical portfolio strategy.

The ideal candidate should be able to sit with a beauty brand developing a new serum, cream, hair treatment or wellness product and immediately begin asking:

• What product are you trying to create?
• What benefit should the consumer understand?
• Which botanical ingredients can support that concept?
• What concentration makes technical sense?
• Is the ingredient compatible with the formulation?
• What documentation and evidence are available?
• Does the sensory profile fit the product?
• Can the concept work commercially in Qatar?

The objective is to turn beauty concepts into structured ingredient-development projects.