Senior Manager Alliances Taste

Job title - Senior Manager Alliances Taste
Location – Geneva, Switzerland
The Senior Manager serves as a technical expert in outsourcing taste ingredients, applying advanced chemistry and process knowledge—particularly in crystallized ingredients—and ensuring effective collaboration with internal and external partners in both French and English.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifying potential outsourcing partners per project, considering geopolitical factors, and engaging in preliminary discussions.
• Securing legal agreements needed for sharing sensitive data contained in technical packages and ensuring regulatory compliance information (ISO, Kosher, Halal) is communicated properly.
• Translating procedures accurately, highlighting key steps with safety and quality rationales, providing analytical methods and samples, and assisting partners with laboratory tests and validation processes, while ensuring no dsm-firmenich site-specific details are shared.
• Visiting partner sites for evaluations, audits, writing visit reports, coordinating logistics and contracts with business and procurement, and facilitating regulatory compliance and quality assurance collaboration.
• Overseeing pilot trials, validating samples, observing industrial-scale production, troubleshooting, and maintaining close contact with business and procurement teams throughout the process.

We Offer

• The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose.
• A flexible work environment that empowers people to take accountability for their work and own the outcome.
• A firm belief that working together with our customers is the key to achieving great things.
• An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future.
• 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.

You Bring

• A PhD in Organic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 5-10 years of laboratory and industrialization experience in chemical related industry.
• Proficiency in using databases (e.g. LIMS, SAP. etc.), scientific literature resources, and specific software tools like ChemDraw and Chem3D.
• Fluency in French and English.
• Strong communication skills, experience in collaboration with external and internal stakeholders, negotiation skills.
• Open minded approach and cultural sensitivity.
• Open to travel (up to 6-8 weeks per annum in total).

About Dsm-firmenich
At dsm-firmenich, we don't just meet expectations – we go beyond them.

Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day. Whether it's fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that's better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavor, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

And while you're making a difference, we'll make sure you're growing too. With learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here. And your ideas? They're essential to our future.

Because real progress only happens when we
go beyond, together.
The application process
Interested in this position? Please apply on-line by uploading your resume via our career portal (www. dsm-).

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement
At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that's exactly the kind of culture we're building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we're serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we're committed to reflecting the world we serve.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.

And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we're here to help – just let us know what you need, and we'll do everything we can to make it work.

Agency statement
We're managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you're applying as an individual, we'd love to hear from you. We're not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.