Professionals

We are always looking for experienced professionals that help us strengthen our business

As a pioneering provider of flavor and fragrance solutions, active ingredients and aroma molecules for perfumes, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages we are seeking expert professionals and skilled workers to help us deliver on our vision of always inspiring more.

By joining us, you will be given a platform to explore ideas, leverage your know-how, set standards as well as develop and optimize processes in a sustainable way. Become an innovator who embraces our transforming consumer landscape, as we look to create solutions which provide our customers with added value.

Katharina Dürbaum

Corporate Vice President Group Human Resources

11,151

employees

60

nationalities

100⁺

global
locations

Discover our business

We are powered by innovation

At Symrise, it is our mission to ensure long-term value creation and to allow our stakeholders to participate in our success. That means striving for economic success while making sustainability an integral part of our business model.

We want to stay ahead of the curve in strategic acquisitions by focusing on those that enable us to expand our business into adjacent areas and those that enable us to achieve our sustainability goals such as sourcing raw materials and increasing backward integration across our entire supply chain.

In 2020, we generated €3,530 million in sales across a range of 30,000 products. Our roots go back to 1874 when Ferdinand Tiemann and Wilhelm Haarmann first synthesized vanillin from coniferin in the German town of Holzminden – our global headquarters to this day.

Our business comprises two core segments: Taste, Nutrition & Health as well as Scent & Care, each with their own distinct product ranges, allowing us to offer unique cross-divisional, end-to-end solutions. Discover in detail who we are and what we stand for here.

Our growth in numbers

5-7%

Annual long-term growth

Growing nearly twice as fast as the market

3%

Expansion of our workforce
in 2020

Get to know our culture

We base our culture on continuous improvement and inspiration

At Symrise, your personal development is our highest priority. It is our obligation to create defined goals and objectives which you can work towards, providing a positive contribution to your development. The following key elements of our corporate culture will allow you to realize your full potential and develop your career with us.

We focus on you

We provide a collaborative culture

We provide clear career paths and allow your performance to determine how you progress in the business

We foster an open corporate culture and encourage creativity and excellence

We give consistent, structured and transparent feedback

We nurture a strong team-ethic and enable you to collaborate with your peers and learn from them

We recognize individual needs at different stages in life and provide you training, which suits your long-term development

We create opportunities to cross-network with our wide range of business units globally

We share common values

Our six core values define who we are and what we stand for. We share them across our entire business and they bring an underlying strength to our diversity of people and products. Our key values are creativity, excellence, added value, integrity, sustainability and commitment.

Creativity Excellence Added value Integrity Sustainability Commitment

Creativity

Drives our innovation, through which we bring our claim of always inspiring more to life

For us, creativity begins with the consumer. Their new and changing needs are what our customers aim to satisfy. We foster an atmosphere that allows our employees the freedom for creative development. Creativity is our path to innovation.

Excellence

Outstanding performance for customers, consumers and markets with uncompromising quality

We don‘t rest on our past successes, but constantly work to improve our process efficiency, quality, service and sustainability. We motivate, cultivate and foster independent and pro-active thinking. Every employee can contribute to meeting or even exceeding our business goals.

Added value

Intelligent added benefits and integrated services; enjoyable and rewarding experiences for the customer and strategic growth for Symrise

We seek out and appreciate the challenges presented by changing consumer needs and market developments, seeing them as an opportunity for growth. We aim to develop products with a clear added value that fully encompasses and goes beyond the characteristics of taste and smell.

Integrity

Trust and honesty serve as the foundation of our teamwork

This is as true in working with fellow employees as it is with all of our stakeholders, and it represents a core element of our code of conduct. In our day-to-day interactions, we maintain an open and constructive dialog and expect mutual respect regardless of position or rank. We are committed to honesty and transparency. This also means that we handle information and know-how carefully and confidentially.

Sustainability

We strive for economic success while also assuming responsibility

With our strategy of sustainable value creation, we create value for everyone, factoring sustainability into the way we think and act every day. As a successful company, we consider it our duty to provide a positive contribution to our employees, society and the environment. We work together with our partners to deliver genuine sustainable development, thus ensuring the long-term success of our respective organisations.

Commitment

Our employees are the key to the success of Symrise, we stimulate them with challenges, encouraging them to take on responsibility and help them develop

We maintain an environment in which each and every employee is appreciated and encouraged to grow and assume responsibility. We are strengthened by the diversity of our employees with regard to religion, ethnicity, gender, age and culture. This is why we are structuring working conditions for young families that include flexible working hours or childcare, for example. We see this as an essential factor for our success, which we are actively supporting.

What makes us an ‘Employer of Choice’

Our clear focus on our employees results in their strong commitment. We want to uphold this and develop targeted measures to improve our work environment. To find out what our employees care about, we regularly measure their sentiment with our employee engagement surveys. We feel very proud that 80 % of our staff across our offices in Brazil, Chile, UK, France, Germany, Singapore and the USA completed our 2016 opinion poll. The impressive response rate means that we have established a platform for dialogue between the company and our people, demonstrating the commitment of our employees to provide feedback and to shape our company's corporate culture of dialogue and participation.

67 of 100

our Employee Commitment Index score, placing us in the top 30% in the world

90%

have trust in our competitiveness and future prospects

95%

of our people would accept a job with us again

Life at Symrise

Across all our offices and employees, we place a great importance on charity and social initiatives as well as continually making Symrise a more inclusive place to work. From safety rallies, charity runs and breast cancer campaigns, to the Sustainability Olympics, healthy living week and community engagement days, our employee-led initiatives make sure to raise awareness for causes and charities, safeguard our environment and give back to the communities in which we operate.

Promoting equality and diversity

We promote diversity and inclusion

At Symrise, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values mean that regardless who you are you will be afforded every opportunity to flourish. We rely on our multinational and multifunctional teams and our ability to put different perspectives, strengths and qualifications together for developing the best solutions.

Diversity embodies everything that makes us unique and is an integral part of who we are as a company, how we operate today and how we take on the challenges of the future. Our continued success will always be linked to our ability to bring our core values to life.

In 2017, we signed the "Women's Empowerment Principles", a joint initiative of the organization UN Women and the United Nations Global Compact, which aims to raise awareness for the issue of promoting and empowering women in companies. Symrise is committed to and actively promotes gender equality on all levels across the business.

We place great importance on both diversity and inclusion, celebrating our differences and always endeavoring to create an inclusive environment.

Diversity statement

A dream come true: Meet Laís Nascimento

When she lost her sight, Laís Nascimento didn’t want her illness to permanently cast a shadow over her life. Here, the evaluator trainee from Brazil talks about how her persistence and her dream of having a normal job led her to Symrise and why it’s the right place for her.

Develop with us

Take your career forward with Symrise

Our people are the reason we are a leading company in the flavor and fragrance industry. That is why we place great importance on personal and professional development. Doing this means that we can continue to inspire our customers with creative and innovative solutions.

Career paths

We are built on the know-how of our employees. This means that we rely on strong managers in leadership roles and on specialists who drive our product and process competence forward with their knowledge and experience.

Accordingly, we divide our career models into management and expert pathways. Our various technical career models reflect this. And our expert and management career structures are flexible. People can move from one career pathway into another based on their individual ambitions and skills.

45%

of all promotions go to women

38%

of our employees have been with Symrise for 10 years or longer

Leadership Training - Our Future Generation Program

Leadership skills and competencies are crucial for our business success. We prepare our managers for the job ahead and guide them along the way via mentoring partnerships and target group-specific training programs.

We have created the Future Generations Program as a cornerstone of leadership development. The program targets globally-mobile talents with excellent performance, who would like to further grow into a leadership role or are at an early stage of their leadership journey and – in a mid-term view – want to grow into a middle management position. The program covers the relevant leadership skills needed for a leadership role. In parallel you will work in small teams on a business project with a business challenge relevant for Symrise. Additionally, you will receive mentorship from one of our senior leaders.

The Symrise Academy

One of the ways we ensure the continued development of our people is through the Symrise Academy. The academy provides training for perfumers, flavorists and commercial positions. Each program focuses on your long-term development and provides you with the skills you need to adapt to the changing demands of our customers.

Flavorists

Flavorists will be trained in the fundamentals of application technology, and use their knowledge to develop their own ‘masterpiece’ flavor composition at the end of the program. Participation in this program requires strong and proven sensory skills.

Perfumers

Perfumers will be introduced to the raw materials used to create fine fragrance, personal care and home care products. They’ll participate in scent expeditions around the world, visiting the people who are working at the source of these fragrances. Participation in this program requires strong and proven sensory skills.

Сommercial professionals

For commercial professionals, there will be an emphasis on developing your communication and leadership skills, as well high-performance sales training.

What we offer

Reap the rewards of working with a company that prioritizes its people

Compensation and benefits Corporate culture

Attractive compensation
We offer a competitive base salary, market-driven, result- and performance-oriented bonuses, and profit sharing depending on country

Regular employment
We prefer and offer regular/permanent employments wherever possible and appropriate

Family-friendly workplace
We offer flexible work arrangements (flextime, part-time, job sharing), childcare subsidies and associated daycare facilities in many locations

Pension plan
Our employees benefit from shared funding of / employer contributions to their pension plan.

Health benefits
We offer fitness and sport activities, as well as nutrition and safety courses in the framework of our global “Simply Healthy” initiative

Vacation
Depending on your country, you are granted up to 30 vacation days per year

Relocation Support
Depending on your position, we support you in finding housing and pay for language courses

Local benefits
Depending on your location you can expect further benefits like canteens or lunch services/vouchers

Internationality
We have 9,387 employees in 40 countries and opportunities for international assignments/networking

Stability & growth
We are listed in Germany's MDAX stock index, have an effective and sustainable growth strategy in place and the majority of employees stay with us for more than 10 years

Career with a purpose
You will work in an exciting industry and contribute to consumers’ health and well-being

Training & personal development
We support you in your personal development and career growth with individual training programs

Lean Structure
Our quick and smart decision-making processes help bring your ideas to life with a high level of autonomy and freedom to act

Social responsibility & sustainability
We handle natural resources carefully and encourage our employees to volunteer and engage in social projects

Onboarding programs
We offer individual onboarding programs to ensure an optimal start to your career with us

Cultural & team events
You can take part in team building days and sponsored cultural events

What we expect

Creativity, integrity, excellence and commitment

We look for people who are confident, know their own strengths and are happy to work in a team, always dedicated to their work as a part of a wider vision and always looking to improve. We see our employees as entrepreneurs in our enterprise, following the idea of co-ownership. An ability to adapt is also something we look for in our people. Our customers' needs evolve constantly. So, it is vital that you can embrace this challenge and create solutions that satisfy them. This entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with the mission to create solutions helps us consistently deliver against our customers' needs. A career with us will be challenging, and our open culture and commitment to professional development provides the support you will need to thrive.

Where you could work

We are truly international

We now have 11,151 employees working in more than 100 locations around the globe and we want you to join our team.

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How to apply

We believe in a collaborative application process where we can get to know you and you can get to know us

At each step of the process, we will give you the opportunity to showcase your creativity, integrity and excellence within your chosen field. We will answer your questions and and provide you with all the details regarding your new role – allowing you to be sure that we are the right fit.