Sensory & Consumer Insights Latam Manager

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.

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Roles & Responsibilities
Essential Functions:

1. Understand and define the fundamental sensory/consumer requirements of
the strategic categories and inject the knowledge into product development.
2. Conduct Competitive Product and Benchmark Assessments to Understand the
Competitive Landscape
3. Support consumer-focused product development from creation to customer
delivery.
4. Develop, plan, and implement research proposals to gain valuable consumer
and sensory insights to provide technical solutions based on a deep
understanding of consumer needs and competitive offerings.
5. Provide recommendations on business solutions based on solid technical
consumer research and a deep understanding of the business environment.
6. Create experimental design, implement, collect data, analyze and translate
date to insights by using appropriate statistical techniques (including
parametric and non-parametric methods, prediction tools).
7. Orientation and training of colleagues on new methodologies and skills to
continuously improve the competence of the team.
8. Cocreate, support, and co-design predictive models to support current and
future projects with regional and global scope.

Profile

- Bachelor's degree in consumer psychology, knowledge of market research, consumers research, food or sensory science, behavioral psychology, or related fields.
- More than 10 years of relevant experience in consumer research and sensory.

- Team player, proactive, enthusiastic, resourceful, creative and curious.

- Work with multidisciplinary teams at regional and global level.
- Able to lead, guide and coach team members and peers.
- People development skills.
- Strong project management skills: able to manage multiple projects in various categories and countries and set strategic priorities.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, able to apply technical knowledge and establish credibility with highly technical audiences to build technical & commercial relationships that will benefit customers or the company and with non-technical audiences to influence decision makers.
- Conceptual, data-driven, solid analytical profile.
- Strategic skills, able to connect the dots, even out of his area of responsibility.

- Fluency in Spanish (Native)/English (C1)/Portuguese (A2)
- Travel requierement: 100%

Job Offer

We offer above-law benefits, development and continuous training

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.