Planning Team Lead / Manager (SEAO + Export Markets), Scent & Care

About Symrise AG

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.

Symrise - always inspiring more...

The Position:

* Demonstrate functional expertise and collaborate with Supply Chain cross functional and Commercial Business Units teams to drive high performance of Operation Excellence
* Drive material readiness, provide analysis, solutions and ensure cost optimization without compromising delivery/supply with material stock level
* Identify operational gaps by analysing supply chain and production performance indices and define a systemic approach to resolve issues permanently
* Key member in the Executive Management S&OP meeting cycle via a regularly structured meeting cadence, through cross functional collaboration that ensures alignment and timely decisions and actions are taken to effectively run the operations
* Responsible to maintain healthy inventory level, operating plans, purchase forecasts across multiple functions to optimize time, cost, and resources in support of business objectives while ensuring accountability to organizational commitments
* Drive digitalization and continuity improvement initiatives to create incremental opportunities through the landscape of new Supply Chain model
* Provide coaching/mentoring to team and succession planning strategies by leveraging diversity to meet the current and future needs of the Supply Chain and Organization
* Review and communicate with internal and external customers for monthly purchase forecast
* Present and provide periodic updates to Senior Leadership

The Ideal Candidate:

Minimum of 5 years of experience in a planning management role, with a proven Track record of leading teams.
* Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in the areas of Supply Chain, Economics, Business or related fields.
* Proven aptitude to sift through data, identify critical information, analyze, synthesize, using hypothesis and provide sustainable recommendations.
* Significant experience in collaborating with customers and developing strategies to improve overall customer satisfaction.
* Good organizational agility and communication skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and analytical skills and proven ability to manage a process in a complex environment.
* Ability to influence change at all levels of an organization, internally and externally
* Project management skills.

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.