Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There's many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.(This role is flexible and open to be based in any of our operations/manufacturing sites or offices in Johannesburg (South Africa), 6th October City (Egypt), Mumbai (India), or Ranjangaon, Pune (India))An Ingredients Issue Manager with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, an important member of our Taste & Wellbeing Regional Technical team and a business partner for our continued success in the SAMEA (South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa) region - Your future position?We are now hiring for an 'Ingredients Issue Manager' as a new role addition for our Taste & Wellbeing Technical team for South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa (SAMEA). You will report to the Taste & Wellbeing Technical Director for SAMEA. The role is flexible and offers excellent personal and professional development opportunities.You will operate the regional ingredient issue management platform and lead regional priorities in alignment with the global issue management platform and governance. You will help manage ingredient issue projects and ensure effective issue and product lifecycle processes and performance monitoring. You will coordinate the regional inflow of issues, manage the workload priorities of the technical flavourist team and align with stakeholders.Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs!In this exciting role, you will be responsible for -Operate the Regional Ingredient Issue management platform:• Coordinate the regional inflow of requests and issues.• Ensure the smooth running of the regional issue management pipeline.• Ensure prioritisation according to the business impact and optimal resource allocation.• Provide transparency on progress, activity, pipeline, and priorities.• Ensure stakeholder alignment in issue management decisions and communication.• Get alignment and issue escalation with the Regional QIC Governance.• Improve and optimise ingredients issue management process.• Ensure continuous improvement of the regional ingredient issue platform.• Ensure alignment of operating principles and processes with global and with other regions.• Support implementation and maintenance of the formula change validation policy.Manage ingredient issue projects:• Analyse issues, change requests, and project proposals using agreed business principles.• Ensure business case-based priority setting and allocate the resources accordingly.• Design and present solutions for approval.• Establish strategies to implement the agreed option.• Build milestones and monitor and report progress.• Provide project management support for medium and large transfer projects.Ensure effective processes and performance monitoring:• Identify gaps in regional business processes and workflows.• Develop globally aligned, best practice processes and workflows.• Develop and implement an issue management dashboard.Manage workload priorities of the regional flavourist team and align with stakeholders:• Create a technical flavourist project overview and align priorities based on business needs and governance decisions.• Manage service level agreements between technical flavourists and stakeholders.• Highlight possible resource and priority conflicts to the governance teams and support resolution findings.You?Are you someone who wants to shape your own world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us – and influence your world!Your professional profile includes:• A university or business degree in a relevant discipline.• 8+ years of work experience with at least 2 years in a similar role in Flavour/Food/Beverage Ingredient issue management.• A good understanding of supply chain concepts and industrial food or flavour production technologies and processes is preferred.• Experience in working in a cross-functional/matrix environment.• Excellent project management skills.• Comfortable working and collaborating with diverse teams and cultures.• Excellent oral and written proficiency in the English language.• Can travel within the SAMEA region when needed.Your benefits -• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.• A creative team environment that will inspire you.• Attractive compensation package with benefits.• Remote working option - 1 day a week.At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions. Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.
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