Portfolio Lead
Symrise, Teterboro, NJ, United States
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 €4.9 billion in the 2025 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.
Symrise - always inspiring more...
Your role Projects and Business Development • Responsible for the daily leadership of Portfolio Specialists • Assign resources in the daily meeting to meet project objectives • Align Portfolio Specialists with standard ways of working ensuring cross training and support for all BU's • Provide measurable sales growth and business development for the team by responding to off shelf submissions and starting points for new project requests • Demonstrate detailed understanding of product range, value points, cost in use guardrails • Make recommendations to answer briefs from the portfolio or enable the creative process. • Identify gaps and initiatives for NA collections based on new flavor and market trends • Ensure the inclusion of new and winning products, tools and technologies for a winning collection
New Product Development Interface • Lifecycle management of portfolio including updating and modernizing portfolio, phasing out poor performers or outdated products to ensure we maintain a relevant local winning collection. • Monitor KPIs and communicate portfolio effectiveness within the respective business units. • Recognize and communicate product collection changes needed based on customer pricing targets. • Frame the need for new solutions and transfer the outcome into market relevant products solutions together with R&T and Creation/Application. • Identify gaps, technologies, solutions that need to be created to meet customer needs. Roll out and Positioning • Organizes product portfolio to support Sales and Category with clear differentiators for relevant market segments • Execute commercial trainings on new product lines local and/or global. • Define regional positioning and roadmap for roll out of product ranges. • Participate in the commercialization process of SGP initiatives with Category support Market and Business Intelligence • Work with Marketing and Category to understand the Business Unit market segments, customer needs and competitive landscape on a local and global level • Maintain up to date competitive product and taste solutions regionally Global Functions: • Interface with Global counterparts to ensure alignment • Communicate and exchange ways of working with other Regions for all Business units • Participate in selection of globally harmonized portfolio tools
About you Experience Requirements: • Minimum BS degree in Food Chemistry, Food Science or equivalent, master's degree preferred. • 5+ years relevant industry experience • Demonstrated knowledge of flavor in food or beverage from both a Technical and Commercial perspective • Action oriented, customer focus and enjoys working in matrix organization • Excellent manager with demonstrated concern for excellence. • Commercial awareness and acuity • IT Skills-Windows/Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP
Our offer Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.
Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.
If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Pay Transparency Disclosure: The expected annual salary range for this position is USD $80,000.00 - USD $100,000.00. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.
With sales of around €4.9 billion in the 2025 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.
Symrise - always inspiring more...
Your role Projects and Business Development • Responsible for the daily leadership of Portfolio Specialists • Assign resources in the daily meeting to meet project objectives • Align Portfolio Specialists with standard ways of working ensuring cross training and support for all BU's • Provide measurable sales growth and business development for the team by responding to off shelf submissions and starting points for new project requests • Demonstrate detailed understanding of product range, value points, cost in use guardrails • Make recommendations to answer briefs from the portfolio or enable the creative process. • Identify gaps and initiatives for NA collections based on new flavor and market trends • Ensure the inclusion of new and winning products, tools and technologies for a winning collection
New Product Development Interface • Lifecycle management of portfolio including updating and modernizing portfolio, phasing out poor performers or outdated products to ensure we maintain a relevant local winning collection. • Monitor KPIs and communicate portfolio effectiveness within the respective business units. • Recognize and communicate product collection changes needed based on customer pricing targets. • Frame the need for new solutions and transfer the outcome into market relevant products solutions together with R&T and Creation/Application. • Identify gaps, technologies, solutions that need to be created to meet customer needs. Roll out and Positioning • Organizes product portfolio to support Sales and Category with clear differentiators for relevant market segments • Execute commercial trainings on new product lines local and/or global. • Define regional positioning and roadmap for roll out of product ranges. • Participate in the commercialization process of SGP initiatives with Category support Market and Business Intelligence • Work with Marketing and Category to understand the Business Unit market segments, customer needs and competitive landscape on a local and global level • Maintain up to date competitive product and taste solutions regionally Global Functions: • Interface with Global counterparts to ensure alignment • Communicate and exchange ways of working with other Regions for all Business units • Participate in selection of globally harmonized portfolio tools
About you Experience Requirements: • Minimum BS degree in Food Chemistry, Food Science or equivalent, master's degree preferred. • 5+ years relevant industry experience • Demonstrated knowledge of flavor in food or beverage from both a Technical and Commercial perspective • Action oriented, customer focus and enjoys working in matrix organization • Excellent manager with demonstrated concern for excellence. • Commercial awareness and acuity • IT Skills-Windows/Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP
Our offer Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.
Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.
If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Pay Transparency Disclosure: The expected annual salary range for this position is USD $80,000.00 - USD $100,000.00. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.