Job Description

Category Expert (Contract, On‑Demand) — Food / Natural Ingredients & Fragrance/Beauty (Aroma Chemicals & Essential Oils)

We are looking for a
senior category expert (15+ years)
to
fine‑tune
existing approaches and provide
consulting
and
best‑practice guidance
across two areas:

  • Food / Natural Ingredients
    (e.g., vanilla, citrus/bergamot, botanicals, extracts, cultures/probiotics)
  • Fragrance/Beauty
    (aroma chemicals & essential oils)

This is a
mature environment
—the focus is on
review & refinement
rather than building processes from scratch (no SRM setup).

Key Responsibilities (Food / Natural Ingredients)

  • Review and fine‑tune
    current sourcing/selection approaches for priority natural ingredients.
  • Provide
    pragmatic consulting
    and
    best practices
    on supplier choices, ways of working, and decision criteria.
  • Offer
    senior insights
    on risk aware...

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