Fragrance & Beauty Regional Operations Controller for EMEA

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Fragrance & Beauty Regional Operations Controller for EMEA
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, 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.
A Regional Operations Controller with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, an important member of our Fragrance & Beauty Division Controlling team, and based in our Vernier office in Switzerland - Your future position?
We are now hiring a ‘Regional Operations Controller’ to support Operations Controlling for our Fragrance & Beauty Operations sites across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, including India.
You will be the ‘co-pilot’ to the Fragrance & Beauty Head of EMEA Operations by providing the necessary business insight to achieve the business plan. Support the strategy and development of the regional business plan by providing insight into the KPIs and their drivers and by proactively challenging the business partners. This is in collaboration with the network of Site Controllers, the Operations teams, and the various Centre of Excellence teams (e.g. Continuous Improvement).
The role is based in our Vernier office in Switzerland, will have 3-4 direct reports, and will report to the Fragrance & Beauty Global Operations Controller. The role offers excellent opportunities for both personal and professional development.
You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. With its heritage stretching back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes. Our passion is to collaborate with customers and partners to develop game-changing innovations in the food & beverage, fragrance and beauty industries. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and a range of rich experiences to your daily job.
Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if you love staying ahead of the curve, always aiming to exceed customer needs and believing in value creation.

• Business partnering: Make sure that the Operations teams are aware of all the risks and opportunities that can impact the performance of operations, propose mitigation actions, and ensure the execution of these actions after alignment.
• Business insight: Provide Operations Management with interpretive and predictive operational and financial information on which to make business decisions. Perform ad-hoc and pro-active analyses of the region’s monthly KPIs and provide Operational Management with business performance insights.
• Investments: Drive the investment process within the region, including validation of the business cases, ensuring approval and following up on executed investments to stay within scope and budget.
• Management of Site Controllers: Responsible for the Operations controlling network in EMEA, providing clear guidance, setting priorities, developing the team and making sure that the controllers operate as business partners to the Site Operations teams. You will act as the liaison between Site Controllers and Global Operations Controlling.
• Budget Cycle. Lead the regional annual operations budget process in line with global guidance and the regional business plan. This includes the annual standard product costing and being the interface with the Pricing organisation related to costing.