Flavor-Focused Food Product Developer | Sensory & Scale-Up

New School Foods Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

New School Foods Inc. is seeking a talented Product Developer focused on flavor development to join our fast-growing team.

You will leverage hands-on experience in food product development and flavor science to improve taste, aroma, nutritional quality, appearance, and texture. You will own relationships with flavor houses, run sensory evaluations, and design experiments to optimize flavor, aroma, texture, and cooking performance.

Qualifications

• BS in a scientific discipline (food science, flavor chemistry, materials science, or related field).
• 5+ years of experience in food product design, including formulation, ingredient functionality and interaction, process design, product scale‑up, plant testing and commercialization
• Demonstrated experience in flavor development or flavor chemistry.
• Experience designing and executing sensory studies (descriptive analysis, consumer panels, or trained panels) and translating sensory feedback into formulation improvements

Responsibilities

• Own relationships with flavor houses and suppliers to develop custom flavors and ingredients.
• Design and run sensory evaluations and descriptive panels to benchmark flavor.
• Improve existing methods and formulations to enhance organoleptic properties (flavor, aroma, texture), nutritional profiles, and cooking performance.
• Design and execute experiments and prepare results for review.
• Apply statistical analysis tools to analyze and interpret data, derive conclusions, and translate them into optimizing flavor and product performance
• Maintain and operate a broad array of sample preparation and analytical equipment (texture analyzer, colorimeter, GCMS, etc.)
• Support ongoing optimization of existing products and assist in new product scale‑up, especially for new processes, ensuring flavor consistency through scale-up testing.
• Assist in defining product specifications and critical parameters that directly link to key attributes like flavor, sensory, and product appearance

Skills

Flavor development

Flavor chemistry

Sensory analysis

Product design

Process scale-up

Education

BS in a scientific discipline (food science, flavor chemistry, materials science, or related)

Tools

GCMS

Texture analyzer

Colorimeter

Job description

New School Foods Inc. is seeking a talented Product Developer focused on flavor development to join our fast-growing team.

You will leverage hands-on experience in food product development and flavor science to improve taste, aroma, nutritional quality, appearance, and texture. You will own relationships with flavor houses, run sensory evaluations, and design experiments to optimize flavor, aroma, texture, and cooking performance.