Lab Assistant

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Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. 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. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, 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.

We are now looking to expand our Taste & Wellbeing Sales Operations team for the Middle East region and hire an additional Lab Assistant to provide more intimate care for our increasing customer base in the region. You will manage the daily Taste & Wellbeing lab work and close work with application technologist. Your main responsibility will be to upkeep the lab, work on customer projects, handling of samples and assist your manager.

Based in our Karachi office and reporting to the Taste & Wellbeing Country Manager for Pakistan, you will join a passionate, winning, and diverse team supporting our continued success story. The role offers excellent opportunities for both personal and professional development. This is an open contract role with us for 1 year to start with, working 5 days a week. Your monthly payroll will be processed by a 3rd party partner. The contract could be extended later depending on our business requirements with a potential later on to become a permanent role with us.

In this exciting role you will:

Support to application technologist:

1. Manage administrative tasks of lab work, including handling of managing projects and sample requests, from initiation to completion and preparation for submission.
2. Support the team for all customer events.
3. Manage inventory control of raw material and flavour library.
4. Upkeeping and cleaning of the lab as per EHS / Company guidelines.

Service our customers:

1. Respond to all enquiries using systems knowledge, creative investigation, and follow-up.
2. Provide the business team with information on customers' requests, insights, and communications.
3. Use your skills to support the Key Account Managers deliver to our customers.
4. Analyse data to identify meaningful insights.
5. Manage priorities for yourself and the overall tasks.
6. Create easy-to-understand reports and presentations.

Improve the bottom line:

1. Be an essential team member by coordinating and updating different reports and tracking tools.
2. Maintain data accuracy in reports and manage timelines.
3. Create daily, weekly, and monthly dashboards and support project management and data reporting.

You?

Your professional profile includes:

1. Food Technology University degree in a relevant discipline.
2. 1+ years of experience in a B2B/B2C lab support role in multicultural work environments in Flavour, Food, Beverage, FMCG, Ingredients, or other relevant food sectors.
3. Experience in bakery & confectionery will be preferred.
4. Knowledge of lab equipment and its accessories.
5. Working knowledge of ERPs like SAP is advantageous.
6. Excellent oral and written proficiency in the English language.
7. A good team player and comfortable with diversity.

Our benefits:

1. Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
2. A creative team environment that will inspire you.

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.