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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 17,000 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.\nHead of DADS (Digitalization, Automation, Data Science) - A Digital Automation Data Science Manager\nPurpose: This role focuses on identifying manual bottlenecks in digital processes within Fragrance S&T and replacing them with automated, data-driven solutions. 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