Quality Control Analyst, Flavor

**About Symrise AG**
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food. Its sales of € 3.8 billion in the 2021 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America.

Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process.

Symrise - always inspiring more

**Quality Control Analyst, Flavor**
As a Quality Control Analyst, you will be tasked to manage both raw materials and finished goods to ensure that quality specifications and standards are met according to the customers’ requirements and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). You will be required to conduct sensory analysis on both tasting and smelling of the materials and perform sample analysis on Gas Chromatography (GC) and Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) equipment. Additionally, you will be supporting different teams within the Quality Control and work in a highly collaborative environment with supportive colleagues here at Symrise. Furthermore, you will gain exposure to various good challenges to build stronger partnership with key stakeholders to further contribute to the business growth.

**The Position**:

- Conduct routine physical, chemical, sensory and other analyses accordingly.
- Operate laboratory equipment (e.g. GC-MS, GC-FID and Auto-titrator), perform basic preventive maintenance, equipment verification/calibration and analytical method verification.
- Perform data entry and documentation process to maintain traceability
- Conduct risk assessment and decision making for approval/rejection of batches of Flavor raw materials/finished products based on the test results against the set specification and customer’s requirements within lead-time.
- Take appropriate decisions for rework of material based on historical trend and in consultation with seniors
- Raise non-conformation for quality deviations of Raw Material/Finished Goods and follow up with proper closure of corrective and preventive action
- Initiate actions to investigate customer complaint in consultation with relevant team members
- Collect comprehensive evidence/crucial data, provide sound reasoning and propose possible root cause for customer complaints and internal rejection
- Ensure that the Company’s agreed quality standards are maintained with regards to its customer contract and agreements
- Develop/maintain quality specifications and standards for raw materials, intermediates and finished product
- Maintain up-to-date quality control programs, policies, process workflows, procedures and work instructions
- Propose/conduct optimization of workflow to increase productivity, practice sustainability and ensure laboratory safety.
- Make effective timely communications with other stakeholders such as purchasing, production, planning, regulatory and customer service to avoid any delays
- Provide rotating support to various Quality Control teams
- Degree in relevant science field including Chemistry, Flavors/Fragrance and Food Science.
- Min. 2-3 years of experience for Degree holders and 4-5 years of experience for Diploma holders in the flavor and fragrance or relevant industry (e.g. Food/Beverage industry)
- Possess good knowledge of chemical properties, especially in flavor and fragrance
- Exposure to sensory analysis is essential
- Basic process knowledge of production work
- Hands-on experience with laboratory equipment such as Gas Chromatography (GC) is required
- Excellence in writing technical communication/reports
- Knowledge of Laboratory Safety and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job Reference: SG00750