About us

At SARIA Food & Pharma, our activities are characterized by connected value chains, decades of shared market expertise and a unifying spirit of innovation to continuously develop our people and our products.

Van Hessen, Devro and Bioiberica use animal raw materials to create their wide range of products, which are ubiquitous and universal, but anything but ordinary. With a complementary portfolio of casings for the sausage industry that includes natural and collagen-based casings, Devro and Van Hessen are leading product experts in their industry. The global life science company Bioiberica produces active ingredients for humans, animals and plants, from starting material it receives from Van Hessen.

We create the added layer of value with our products and services, improve the well-being of all by taking life science further and combine our attention to detail with the extraordinary, because it all matters.

The opportunity

Reporting to the CEO, this position can be based from our global SARIA Food & Pharma sites. Please note, there will be travel expected monthly travel to the Netherlands for the successful candidate if based outside this location.

Responsibilities

• Conducts information gathering and analyses arising from formulated problems by board
• Drafts reports describing the research field and which contains findings, conclusions and recommendations
• Conducts research to arrive at business cases reflecting the opinion of the organisation and / or the results of the research conducted
• For the larger studies, coordinates project activities and manages project members, within the framework defined in the project plan
• Ensures the transfer of an approved strategic project within the internal organisation for optimal project preparation and execution within the specified project objectives.
• Analyses trends and developments and translates these into initiatives for possible strategic projects
• Supports CEO where necessary (in a.o M&A projects)
• Collects quantitative and qualitative data from in- and external sources
• Analyses and transforms data into insights fulfilling the business needs

About you

• Continuously develops, improves / innovates, and implements processes, methods, best practices and / or systems
• Operates autonomously, in line with organisation /unit, strategy, policy and objectives
• Resolves complex, abstract issues that require a good understanding of the (customer’s) business context and vision to address
• Is an autonomous thinker and proactively present vision and solutions to (senior) management
• Making and maintaining a favourable first impression on others; inspiring confidence in others
• Identifying problems; recognizing significant information; making connections between data; tracing possible causes of problems; investigating relevant data
• Determining goals and priorities effectively and stipulating the time, activities, and resources to achieve the goals set
• Identifying problems; recognising significant information; making connections between data, tracing probable causes of problems; investigating relevant data behavioural flexibility

What’s next?

If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, we would love to hear from you. To apply, please e-mail a copy of your CV and our Recruitment Team will be in touch.

Important to us:

We believe it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly innovative company. If you require any adjustments to be able to pursue an application with us, please let our Recruitment team know.

Information Security is important at SARIA Food & Pharma and your application will be processed and stored in line with our data protection policies.