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About us
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.
With sales of around €4.9 billion in the 2025 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.
Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.
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Your role
• Develop and implement Nutrition portfolio strategies that will contribute to commercial growth by understanding and analyzing the needs of the nutrition market: competitive intelligence, identification and anticipation of direct and indirect customer needs, listening to the market.
• Manage the entire product development cycle, from development to commercialization. Technical and industrial feasibility, raw material sourcing, regulations, production (capacity and time constraints), pricing, etc. in collaboration with the associated teams.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from release including Master Data to end-of-life: analyze the results of the product on the market and compare them to the objectives, verify the quality, profitability and evolution of the product, coordinate the resolution of product-related problems, implement corrective actions and make any necessary adjustments.
• Ensure timely and successful product launches aligned with customer expectations and business goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams (R&D, marketing, business developer, supply chain, regulatory) to develop and launch new products.
• Identify market needs and trends to drive innovation in pet food nutrition.
• Organize decision making bodies (business and portfolio committees) establish, monitor and guarantee the achievement of KPI's, share product and service development data.
• Identify levers to improve margin and reduce costs without compromising quality. • Monitor product profitability and contribute to budget planning and forecasting. • Interact and work closely with our colleagues in Netherlands.
• Identify levers to improve margin and reduce costs without compromising quality. • Monitor product profitability and contribute to budget planning and forecasting. • Interact and work closely with our colleagues in Netherlands.
• Guarantee the level of service to customers to improve their products.
• Present new products to sales teams, animate sales action, contribute to the training (conception & deployment) and the creation of sales support tools: technical data sheets, sales pitch, product positioning/ single value proposition, price proposals, launch plan, sampling plan, etc.
About you
• Master's degree or equivalent from a scientific background such as biochemistry, agro-school, or chemistry.
• 5 to 7 years' experience on similar functions, B2B markets and international/matrix organization environments. Feed sectors preferably.
• Master marketing techniques and tools
• Know feed company products and production techniques and their constraints.
• Knowledge of SAP, ideally
• Fluent English mandatory
• Willingness to travel across the NAM region
Our offer
Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.
Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.
If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.