Strategic B2B Marketing Specialist — Flavors & Ingredients

KAESER Compresores de Argentina; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Job summary

dsm-firmenich invites applications for the Senior Manager, Technical Operations Argentina & Uruguay. You will translate market and franchise technical strategies into effective execution across bottlers, territories, and plants, focusing on QSE, innovation, and commercialization while aligning with the annual business plan.

This individual contributor role demands 5+ years in TI&SC, fluency in Spanish and English, and proven ability to influence cross-functional teams, manage risk, and deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Food Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in one or more TI&SC areas, including QSE, SRA, commercialization, supply chain, technical franchise leadership, CPS, R&D, manufacturing, or the food and beverage industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical or operational projects from planning through implementation.
• Ability to translate business and technical priorities into structured execution plans and measurable operational outcomes.
• Strong analytical, risk‑mapping, root‑cause analysis, and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Fluency in Spanish and English.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 25% to 50% of the time, depending on business priorities and the needs of assigned bottlers, plants, and projects.

Responsibilities

• Translate Technical Operations priorities into actionable execution plans for assigned bottlers, territories, and plants, including deliverables, milestones, owners, performance indicators, risks, and follow‑up routines.
• Provide technical leadership primarily across QSE, innovation, commercialization, technical governance, and capability‑building priorities, acting as the principal execution arm for the agreed market, franchise, and plant‑level technical agenda.
• Use technical insights, QSE and innovation performance data, and bottler needs to identify risks and opportunities and recommend local, bottler, plant, or workstream strategies that contribute to the broader Technical Operations agenda.
• Own execution of the QSE, innovation, commercialization, technical governance, and capability priorities required to support the annual business plan for the assigned scope.
• Drive technical performance improvement with assigned bottlers and plants, with emphasis on QSE scores, product quality and food safety, environmental and safety performance, technical compliance, commercialization readiness, and closure of critical technical gaps.
• Set challenging technical performance goals, monitor results, identify gaps, and coordinate recovery plans with bottler and internal stakeholders.
• Drive the definition, execution, and closure of corrective and preventive action plans in coordination with bottler teams and relevant TI&SC functions.
• Identify root causes and mobilize the appropriate technical expertise to resolve quality, food safety, safety, environmental, commercialization, and other technical performance issues.
• Identify, structure, and execute technical productivity and value‑creation initiatives related to QSE, innovation, commercialization, process capability, and technical performance, ensuring appropriate tracking of implementation and results.
• Coordinate the execution of innovation and commercialization plans with bottlers, CPS, R&D, suppliers, copackers, and internal functions.
• Translate innovation and commercialization priorities into integrated local plans, identifying operational requirements, dependencies, risks, and readiness gaps.
• Promote and deploy digital solutions that improve QSE management, technical governance, commercialization readiness, decision‑making, and technical performance.
• Act as the primary contact for QSE, innovation, commercialization, and related technical priorities in assigned bottlers or territories, coordinating troubleshooting, cross‑functional corrective actions, and immediate technical responses.
• Lead the technical contribution to contingency and business continuity plans, coordinating with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, QSE, and bottling partners while full end‑to‑end supply planning remains with the relevant functional owners.
• Maintain an updated view of QSE, innovation, commercialization, compliance, and other technical risks, ensuring that mitigation actions are clearly defined, assigned, and followed through.
• Resolve operational issues within established strategies and governance frameworks, escalating systemic risks, significant business trade‑offs, major investment requirements, or issues with broader market implications.
• Build strong working relationships with bottling partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders across QSE, R&D, SRA, GDI, CPS, Growth Functions, Finance, and other relevant functions.
• Influence operational decisions through technical credibility, data, collaboration, and a strong understanding of bottler priorities.
• Support the development of bottler capabilities in QSE systems, innovation and commercialization processes, technical governance, infrastructure, people, operating practices, and continuous improvement.
• Share operational learning and best practices across bottlers, plants, territories, and TI&SC teams.
• This is an individual‑contributor role with significant cross‑functional leadership responsibility.
• The Manager will lead projects, working teams, and operational agendas through influence, collaboration, technical credibility, and effective stakeholder management.
• The Manager is also expected to contribute to strategy by identifying opportunities, developing recommendations, and proposing local or workstream approaches based on operational insights.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Risk mapping

Problem solving

Cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

dsm-firmenich invites applications for the Senior Manager, Technical Operations Argentina & Uruguay. You will translate market and franchise technical strategies into effective execution across bottlers, territories, and plants, focusing on QSE, innovation, and commercialization while aligning with the annual business plan.

This individual contributor role demands 5+ years in TI&SC, fluency in Spanish and English, and proven ability to influence cross-functional teams, manage risk, and deliver