Strategic Transformation Director

Location: Cotia, Brazil
Job type: Hybrid 
 

In this role, you’ll lead and drive global strategic initiatives as the pivotal force behind dsm-firmenich Taste Business You'll mentor and motivate teams while ensuring alignment across affiliates, contributing directly to our sales, profit targets, and other key KPIs. Your role will crucially contribute to executing overall company strategies, ensuring resource alignment, and meticulously tracking crucial KPIs like win rates, operational compliance, and cost management. 

At dsm-firmenich people are at the heart of the company. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and value diversity in the workplace.

Your key responsibilities

• Leads and manages the global strategic teams of M&A, Pricing, Change Management, Business Transformation; processes (business vitality, CRM, budget and forecasting, credit management)
• Motivates and mentor a team in line with Firmenich core values and competencies. Leading strategic projects and provide expertise in project management and change management.
• Ensures alignment and focus across the affiliates.
• Contributes actively to the business strategy of Taste Business and its targets for sales, profit and other KPI's.
• Contributes to effective implementation of Overall Company Strategies, including alignment of resources.
• Contributes to achieving key KPIs beyond sales and profit, such as win rate, operational rule compliance, ensure proper cost tracking. and to ensure that affiliate plans, identification, qualification and prioritization of opportunities/gaps are balanced between markets and categories.

We bring

• An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future;
• A firm belief that working together with our customers is the key to achieving great things;
• The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose;
• A space to grow by encouraging and supporting curiosity and an open mindset;
• A culture that prioritizes safety and well-being, both physically and mentally;
• A rich history and a promising future of bold scientific innovation and passionate creation with our customers; 

You bring

• Bachelors, Master’s degree or equivalent (business administration, economics, marketing, science).
• Critical analysis and handling of databases.
• Previous flavors/fragrance/ingredient sales experience, ideally international.
• Fluent English, Spanish is a plus.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, capable to prepare/analyse scenarios/trade-offs and simplify complex issues.

Our application process
Interested in this job? Apply online by submitting your resume through our career portal. Generally, the procedure will be in line with the application process outlined on the dsm-firmenich careers website. Due to privacy regulations, we can only actively interact with applications through the career portal.
Equal opportunities commitment
dsm-firmenich is fully dedicated to inclusion because when people feel engaged and empowered, their creativity and innovation drives unprecedented progress. We aim to build a workplace where opportunity really is equal, so everyone can thrive. We do not discriminate: there’s a place for everyone at dsm-firmenich. 
dsm-firmenich is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. dsm-firmenich people are as diverse as our customers. For us that includes a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.  
We are committed to providing reasonable support for disabled applicants in our recruiting process. Should you need assistance, and are comfortable to share this, please let us know. 

About a dsm-firminich
As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. With our comprehensive range of solutions, with natural and renewable ingredients and renowned science and technology capabilities, we work to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. dsm-firmenich is a Swiss-Dutch company, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in almost 60 countries and revenues of more than €12 billion. With a diverse, worldwide team of nearly 30,000 employees, we bring progress to life™ every day, everywhere, for billions of people.