Digital Automation Data Science Manager

Shape the Future of Digital Innovation in Fragrance Science

Join a global community of over 17,000 employees dedicated to creating happier, healthier lives with love for nature. We deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances, and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments where your energy, creativity, and determination shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world.

Role Purpose

This position focuses on identifying manual bottlenecks in digital processes within Fragrance Science & Technology and replacing them with automated, data-driven solutions. You will lead the design of data pipelines, deploy predictive models, and leverage modern AI tools to accelerate research and decision-making within the local IT landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the digital transformation and evolution in Fragrance Science & Technology, driving digitalisation, automation, and data science projects in collaboration with scientists and IT.
• Integrate modern AI tools, such as LLMs and predictive models (QSAR, QSOR), into existing and new applications to accelerate decision-making for research, including designing new molecules, complex systems, and optimising processes.
• Scout and implement modeling tools that facilitate scale-up activities and other research opportunities.
• Align with corporate IT and collaborators to deploy solutions to production or other infrastructure.
• Configure, deploy, and integrate third-party tools to facilitate daily research, development, and industrialisation tasks.
• Design exploration applications and data pipelines to capture, analyse, and visualise data generated across diverse research activities, including finding links between Centres of Excellence.
• Provide expertise, guidance, and training to the Fragrance Science & Technology community for data analysis and visualisation.
• Collaborate closely with IT to follow up on solution deployment with end users, addressing change management, bug-fixing, and user experience improvements.
• Analyse and further improve existing workflows and processes.
• Work tightly with scientists and labs to identify and replace manual bottlenecks with automated workflows across the research organization.
• Engage teams in adopting new and efficient ways of working, keeping the organization up to date with the latest best practices in the field.

Qualifications and Skills

• Degree (MSc, PhD) in a Life Science discipline such as Chemistry, Chemoinformatics, or Biology.
• 10+ years of experience in a research informatics environment with a proven track record of successfully implementing research informatics projects.
• Strong experience in software development and machine learning with Python, combined with solid expertise in system architecture, SQL/database design, and integration with complex web APIs.
• Capability to work effectively in Linux environments when needed.
• Understanding of core cheminformatics principles, including chemical structure formats, searching, fingerprints, descriptors, and complex formulations.
• Understanding of hard chemical data with human responses across psychological, physiological, and sensorial domains, and Ontologies (knowledge graph expertise) is a plus.
• Willingness to learn new tools and technical skills.
• Strong communication and decision-making skills across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Knowledge of best practices within the current University ecosystem.

Benefits

• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• 40-hour working week.
• Additional paid days off.
• Favourable pension fund contributions.
• Subsidized meals in the staff restaurant.
• Sport and leisure club with on-site amenities and showers.
• Discounts at the company shop.
• Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital.

Our Culture

We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed, a place where we all love to be and grow. Join us in making a difference together.