Givaudan is the global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances. In close collaboration with food, beverage, consumer product and fragrance partners, Givaudan develops tastes and scents that delight consumers the world over. With a passion to understand consumers’ preferences and a relentless drive to innovate, Givaudan is at the forefront of creating flavours and fragrances that ‘engage your senses’. The Company achieved sales of CHF 5.1 billion in 2017. Headquartered in Switzerland with local presence in over 100 locations, the company has more than 11,100 employees worldwide. Givaudan invites you to discover more at www.givaudan.com.

Project Administrator

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.  

 

Project Administrator - Your future position?

At Givaudan, we are providers of flavour and colour to the food industry in Oceania. As a Project Administrator, this is an exciting opportunity to lead project management excellence for the Oceania commercial team. You will support the project teams to ensure best practices are applied to all areas of project administration to allow sound decisions and good customer experience. You will also be getting opportunities to participate in tasting sessions to provide input and feedback, so a passion for food will be a sought after trait!

Reporting to: Taste & Wellbeing Technical Head

Location: Baulkham Hills, Sydney

 

Main Responsibilities

  • Be the power user for our Givaudan project administration tools, to support project tracking, tasking and coordinating status updates on our pipeline . This helps with any end to end brief management process.
  • Prepare and maintain project status reports, dashboards, and performance metrics, ensuring accuracy in reports.
  • Bring the team together to resolve project-related issues and support project planning activities.
  • Scheduling and facilitate the daily assessment meetings for Inflow Projects.
  • Drive the project review meetings for projects in progress.
  • Support resource management through assigning tasks in Atlas post the assessment meeting and also keeping track of resource utilization in end-to-end project management.
  • Support the Commercial team in conducting post-project reviews, lessons learned documentation, and other project closure activities.
  • Support the Oceania Technical Head and Leadership team to establish and sustain the Brief Management Best Practices.
  • Act as a trainer to the Oceania commercial team members on the systems related to
  • Brief Management.
  • Be an active member in the Atlas super user community in APAC and raise Oceania needs and recommendations.

 

Main Requirements

  • Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 2 or more years of experience in a project administration/management role
  • Proficient in project management software eg JIRA and the MS suite of office productivity tools and Agile methodologies
  • Ability to identify issues, propose solutions, and help implement corrective actions

 

 

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

Remote working:  On-site



At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Join us and Impact Your World

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.