Beauty & Cosmetic Ingredients Development Manager – Qatar
Palomba General Trading
Role: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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Ingredient FocusProjects 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
Beauty Application AreasSkincare
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
Product Concept DevelopmentThe 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
Candidate Profile
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.
Ideal BackgroundRelevant 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
What We Offer
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.
Who We Are Looking ForThe 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.
