About Us
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food.
Its sales of € 4.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America.
Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process.
Symrise – always inspiring more…

Your Role
Scope
Be the interface between Sales and Technicals for the Western European (WE) cluster (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, UK and Ireland)
The key objective of this Request Coordinator (RC) function is to act as the gatekeeper for the respect of the project management (Brief to Contract) process in the cluster, ensuring the organization works on requests that are in line with its strategy and that meet EAME defined criteria.
Main tasks are about: snacks and culinary project management, product selection and reporting on pipeline performances.
Flexible location : Corby (United Kingdom), Marlow (United Kingdom), Rennes Campus (France)
Missions

• Receive and prioritize requests according to harmonized and pre-defined criteria within the Market Cluster – cluster strategy
• Check new requests for completeness, assess content and clarify with Sales information gaps and questions.
• Assign requests to the appropriate route of project management (selection from portfolio):
  • Route 1, applications in finished products
  • Route 2, creation of new solutions taylor-made
  • Route 3) or send to Centre Of Excellence Coordination for further evaluation or reject request based on business and technical defined criterias.
• Responsible for product selections for Route 1 and 2 with products from existing portfolio
• Organize and lead weekly project review meetings with technical and portfolio teams from various countries in Western Europe, to share new projects and discuss in progress projects.
• Collects and distributes samples, customer bases, benchmarks products… needed to execute the customer brief.
• Inform Portfolio Management about gaps in the Winning Local Collection identified from customer requests - Organize regular updates on the B2C process with sales community.
• Analytical part: extract from our systems information about the WE pipeline, measures and interpret project management KPIs, conduct lessons learned, take corrective action and make recommendations for improvement
• Be part of the EAME RC community, assist to trainings online or in Germany mainly.

About You
Profile

• Technical formation (food processes, flavours...) or sales background with an experience in the flavours & ingredients' industry.
• Ability to run basic applications to evaluate customer targets to run the selections.
• Strong skills in planning, coordinating and organising, especially project management.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills for cross-regional and cross-functional day to day exchanges: check brief relevance, challenge sales and technicals, push back deadline and reject projects if not aligned with strategy or resources...
• Data driven analysis
• Confident leading skills to drive successful project meetings
• Able to work both, in teams and independently
• Curious about market products (profile, intensity, consumer preferences)
• Excellent IT skills – knowledge of Microsoft applications
• Experience of using of SAP, PACE, Symcom and other Symrise systems advantageous
• Knowledge of EU Food and Flavour legislation is a plus.
• Fluent English mandatory, other western european languages will be an advantage

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 the 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.

Job Reference: EA02209