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About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Every day, they partner with customers to create healthier, tastier, and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world.

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Your role

This position is responsible for the coordination and management of Fragrance project work, in close coordination with the Fragrance Sales Manager. The role is ultimately responsible for all technical aspects of the fragrance business including fragrance selection, application testing, portfolio review including ongoing olfactory description, and modifying formulations to ensure regulatory and customer compliance. Developing an understanding and knowledge of the fragrance portfolio is critical to the success of this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing olfactory and technical knowledge of the Kerry fragrance portfolio and being capable and prepared to share this knowledge with customers and key stakeholders.
• Manage and organize the fragrance laboratory activities related to development projects including fragrance selection and preparation, application preparation and testing and record maintenance.
• Communicate with account managers and customers as required to provide technical support and ensure customer requirements are being met.
• Utilize Kerry Recipe management systems to update and modify recipes in line with regulatory and customer requirements and manage master data workflows for formulation and raw material introduction.
• Organize retention and recipe library which includes filing recipes, work-sheet data entry and housekeeping for retention samples.
• Coordinate Olfactory evaluation for the fragrance team, to ensure all products are profiled and measured for suitability in the application.
• Ensure maintenance of equipment and RD&A area in general.
• Administrative support to RD&A Management team with data capturing, reports and presentation preparations and other ad-hoc administrative tasks.
• Undertake other duties as directed.

Training & development

Kerry's learning and development function supports its Career Review process by providing challenging, business-oriented, leadership and employee career development programmes aligned to organisational priorities. These programmes include a blend of classroom, virtual and interactive content focused on developing technical, functional, and leadership skills.

Benefits

Kerry Australia offers a competitive salary to invest in you and your development. At Kerry, they believe Total Reward is about more than just pay and financial rewards. It encompasses career development, personal growth, and access to worldwide opportunities in an inclusive culture where its people can flourish. These rewards/benefits include:

• Global recognition programme
• Long-term incentive plan
• Wellbeing

Career progression

Kerry has maintained a focus on building the quality of its leadership team, making key strategic appointments as well as continuing to invest in building future leaders. Activities to accelerate succession readiness of identified leadership talent have included participation in externally benchmarked assessments, internally led 360-feedback tools to better target leadership development plans, individual coaching, and mentoring.

Work life balance

Kerry’s new agile working framework addresses the paradigm shift in ways of working brought about by the pandemic and facilitates the implementation of a coherent and consistent global approach to agile working, whilst also ensuring sufficient flexibility at a local level to shape specific policies and programmes to meet local business, market or cultural needs.

Culture & vibe

Kerry values the diverse perspectives and experiences of its employees, embracing the uniqueness that adds richness to life. The company remains committed to fostering an inclusive environment and building upon its current efforts in this regard.

About you

Here's what Kerry is looking for in this role:

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Technology or any similar field. 
• Open to fresh graduates or minimum 1-year experience in a relevant technical role involving fragrance exposure. 
• Supervisory skills an advantage (for example supervising Laboratory Technician) 
• Experience in stock control data and exposure to SAP Systems is an advantage.
• Previous demonstrated ability in Olfactory evaluation is preferred. 

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• kerry.com/careers
• kerry.com/annual-report/assets/pdfs/KGAR21_Our_People.pdf