Manager, Industrialization & Process Innovation, China

About Symrise AG

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavourings, cosmetic active ingredients and functional ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food. Its sales of approximately € 5.0 billion in the 2024 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented in 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 indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process.

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Your role

Products

• Responsible for delivering the technical capability with the Industrialization and Process Innovation Team through promoting and sharing knowledge and experience to enhance contribution to production safety, quality and efficiency.
• Support the Growth Agenda by leading New Product Development (NPD) and New Product Introduction (NPI) phases for successful scale up and first production in Symrise manufacturing sites in Shanghai and Nantong. The process takes place from the initial assessment of formulas to full scale up, creating procedures, reviewing plant trials, training and optimizing the process.
• Ensure process safety, occupational safety, food safety and compliance to regulatory requirements during NPD and NPI phases.
• As Subject Mater Expert (SME), lead the quality deviation investigations related to production aspects and define effective preventive actions.
• Lead the Product Transfer process (supporting BCP).
• Supports Toll Manufacture assessment & start-up to achieve Symrise's quality and safety objectives to enable continual delivery of products with zero defects.
• Meeting Customers when technical aspects are to be aligned, presentation of competences and capabilities to support an optimum experience of our product at the Customer's premises.

Technology

• Support Business and Supply Chain initiatives in China with assessing and contributing to New Technology implementation and Technology Transfer activity, define the user requirement specifications (URS).
• Initiate and lead automation enhancement.
• Work with a global network of Technology SME in Symrise to enhance know-how transfer through lift & shift.
• Interface between R&D, Supply Chain (Customer service, Production, Planning and Procurement), Quality, Engineering, Sales & Suppliers to carry out various activities.
• Define the manufacturing conditions and lead the process qualification (OQ, PQ & CV) of the newly installed or modified Technology.
• Generate the related SOP (standard operating procedures) and/or WI (work instructions). Do Train The Trainer in Manufacture.
• Define the New Product Development (NDP) and New Product Introduction (NPI) requirement in IPI for products utilizing the new Technology to ensure successful commercialization.

Continuous Improvement

• Business oriented, continuously seeking, proposing and applying value added solutions.
• Use Lean and Six Sigma principles to reduce wastes in manufacturing process and positively impact sustainable quality.
• Drive a digitalization agenda.
• Initiate and lead projects that will positively impact the site OEE, enabling the next levels utilization of the manufacturing asset with higher production rates and lower down time.
• Initiate and lead product and process optimization projects to improve the production yield, productivity, process stability, reduce the process complexity, and continuously improve the First Time Right (FTR) KPI.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Master's or bachelor's degree in chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Food Science, Food Technology, Pharmaceutical or relevant fields.
• Minimum 8 years (master's degree) or 10 years (bachelor's degree) of relevant experience in Foods and preferably within Flavors industry.
• Proficient in process safety, experienced in leading MOC and contributing to PHA/HAZOP.
• Proficient in food safety, experienced in contributing to HACCP definition and implementation.
• Proficient in project management with track record impacts on CAPEX and OPEX.
• Certified Lean Sigma GB is expected; BB is an added advantage.
• Spray drying and powder blending experience is an added advantage.
• Technology savvy and able to manage multiple projects in a complex organization matrix.
• Initiate and efficiently drive change management.
• Able to inspire and influence stakeholders, fueled by Teamwork and geared with Make It Happen engine.