Regional Director CMI

About us

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 €5.0 billion in the 2024 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.

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Your role

• Assume accountability to lead Latam Consumer Fragrance & Oral Care Marketing & Consumer Research teams establishing departmental strategies & priorities.

• Anticipate, develop, and implement of holistic marketing & consumer research plans that support Business Unit strategies delivering against regional/global objectives.

• Partner closely with the Business Unit, Global Category Leaders, R&D and Global Consumer & Market Intelligence to deliver world class marketing & research solutions for customer briefs and strategic internal platforms.

• Create and deliver engage presentation (client, category, trends, insights), supporting cost list processes and represent Asia Consumer Market Insights in key client top to top meetings.

• Through strong leadership, foster and bridge winning, collaborative partnership with internal client groups (BU Management, Sales, GCL, Applied Research, Neuroscience) both regional & global as well as external stakeholders like clients/partners.

• Promote Consumer Fragrances capabilities/categories, as well as differentiating Consumer relevant technologies & fragrance solutions.

• Lead support for Oral Care Consumer research related activities.

• Create and sustain Symrise competitive advantage through continuous innovations and advancement of Marketing & Consumer Research tools.

• Manage and cultivate the Latam Consumer & Market Intelligence talent to be best in class, high performing teams by providing expert guidance, building & coaching on career pathways and by developing training & succession plans.

• Responsible for developing, controlling, and monitoring Latam Marketing & Research budgets.

• Communicate and collaborate with Global & Regional Marketing & Research colleagues to ensure harmonized practices and ways of working, open information sharing across regions and category platforms while supporting respective region portion of global platforms.

• Oversee external vendor partner relationships, negotiate, and manage secondary data vendor contracts.

• Engagement/partnerships with relevant influencers, trend setters, marketing institutions, research institutions, universities, media & advertisement agencies.

About you

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Research, Communication or Business Administration with more than 10 years' experience.

• Excellence working experience leading out & developing teams is a must have.

• Current or pass experience working experience with Fragrance industry, Consumer Product Industries such as Beauty/Luxury/HomeCare or Oral Care is an added advantage.

• Strong in Marketing & Communication tools, Consumer Research methods, trends and tools and the ability to analyze & interpret primary/secondary data research.

• Experience in managing & implementing regional/global projects.

• Able to manage diverse cross functional teams, projects and have a high level of interpersonal and intercultural skills.

• Proven ability to thrive in a fast paced, changing environment while effectively managing multiple projects & relationships with conflicting timelines and priorities.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively build partnerships, influence stakeholders and decision making at all levels on a global matrix organization.

• Highly creative, innovative, and intuitive equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset & forward thinking.

• Self-starter, independent, reliable, and proactive in identifying value added activities to drive new opportunities.

• Highly polished and possess solid presentation skills both oral & written to clearly communicate vision, strategy, and consumer findings.

Our offer

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Symrise, we believe that diversity is a driving force for innovation, collaboration, and sustainable growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive work environment where everyone — regardless of origin, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, belief, background, or any other identity marker — feels respected, valued, and has equal opportunities to thrive.

We value equity in our processes and continuously seek to identify and eliminate systemic barriers that may negatively impact the experience of any employee or candidate.

That's why we strongly encourage applications from Black people, Indigenous people, LGBTQIAPN+ individuals, women, people with disabilities, people aged 50+, and other groups historically underrepresented in the job market.

If you share these values and want to be part of a team that recognizes and celebrates differences, you will be very welcome on our journey.