Laboratory Team Leader - Fragrance Creation & Application

About This Role

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Laboratory Team Leader for our Fine Fragrance Creation & Application teams - Your future position?

Fragrance is at the heart of Givaudan. As the global leader in the creation of fragrances, taste and wellbeing solutions, we touch billions of consumers every day. Our Fragrance Creation & Application teams combine science and creativity to design solutions that deliver superior performance and emotional impact for our customers worldwide.

To support our growing activities, we are looking for a passionate and experienced Laboratory Team Leader to join our Fragrance Creation & Application function. Based in a collaborative laboratory environment, you will play a key role in ensuring seamless laboratory operations while supporting our creative, development and commercial teams.

In this role, reporting to the Fine Fragrance Creative Center Director, you will supervise a team of technicians and coordinate daily laboratory activities in full compliance with EH&S standards.

In this exciting role, you will

• Coordinate daily activities of the Application and Creation laboratories.
• Define priorities in alignment with creative, development and sales needs.
• Provide expert technical support to Creation, Development and Sales teams, as well as external customers.
• Act as a key point of contact for specific customers or projects.
• Investigate technical issues related to stability or applications and develop tested solutions.
• Update, maintain and share technical documentation, methodologies and protocols.
• Supervise, coach and mentor a team of laboratory technicians.
• Plan, organise and optimise team workload to meet business objectives.
• Support HR related processes including performance management, development and succession planning.
• Foster a positive, collaborative team culture focused on safety, quality and continuous improvement.

You? Are you a hands on laboratory leader who enjoys combining technical expertise with people leadership? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where science meets creativity? If you are passionate about fragrances and motivated to support teams, we would love to hear from you.

Your professional profile includes

• Degree or higher education qualification in Chemistry or a related scientific discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in a laboratory or technical environment.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or supervising laboratory teams.
• Strong technical knowledge of fragrances, formulation, application and stability testing.
• Good understanding of ISO, GMP, EH&S requirements and laboratory best practices.
• Fluent oral and written English.
• Leadership mindset with the ability to engage, motivate and develop others.

Our Benefits

• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
• A creative and collaborative work environment.
• Annual bonus.
• Education support*
• Life and Health Insurance
• Flight ticket allowance*

(*As per company policy)

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.