Senior Beverages Application Specialist

Givaudan; Bogotá; Hybrid; COP 108,000,000 - 156,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical insurance

Onsite lunch facility

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Givaudan in Bogotá is seeking a Senior Beverages Application Specialist to drive flavour application work and support client delivery. The role reports to the Technical Group Leader at the Bogota site and involves 4 days in the office and 1 day remote.

You will lead flavour evaluations, select suitable flavours according to requirements, provide technical expertise across marketing, sales, and customers, and mentor technicians.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Food Science, Chemistry, or Biology.
• 5+ years in a food applications lab or beverages R&D.
• Experience with beverages flavour applications in client environments.
• Ability to coach technicians and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead flavour evaluations and direction for briefs and portfolios.
• Select flavours per requirements and propose delivery systems.
• Provide technical guidance to marketing, sales, and customers.
• Maintain flavour performance data and ensure EH&S compliance.

Skills

Flavour applications

Lab experience

Project management

Customer projects

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor in Food Science, Chemistry, or Biology

Job description

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. 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. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, 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.

Senior Beverages Application Specialist - Your future position?

As a Senior Beverages Application Specialist, you'll participate in flavour application. You'll provide technical expertise to drive operational excellence and improve client delivery systems. This will be done according to our goals and EH&S policies, with a focus on providing support in application in the Beverages segment.

You will report to the Technical Group Leader based in our Bogota site working 4 days at the office and 1 day remote.

You Will

Flavour Application

• Complete daily brief-related tasks including flavour selection, product evaluation, and application development.
• Lead evaluations of flavours in food applications for briefs, research projects, and portfolio evaluations.
• Select flavours for projects according to specified requirements (i.e. customer, regulatory, legislation, cost) and suggest improvements for the most common applications.
• Identify appropriate flavour delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in specific applications

Knowledge sharing and expertise

• Be a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, flavour creation, and customers for specific applications.
• Coach, train, and motivate technicians and technologists

Data maintenance

• Maintain the flavour performance data for the flavour portfolio through evaluation in finished product and capture of profiles

Environmental Health & Safety

• Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment following EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines

You?

Eager to grow in culture and wants to collaborate and learn together with teams as passionate as you are? Then join us – and improve your world.

Your Profile Includes

• Professional in Food Science, Chemistry or Biology.
• 5+ years of experience in a food applications lab, production, research and development of products, or related area with 3 years of solid experience in the beverages segment
• Understanding of selected food applications, ingredients, and processes with practical experience in customers' food manufacturing environment.
• Experience with many of the flavour reactions/interactions in common food products.
• Project management skills to apply in selected customer projects.
• Experience participating in customer projects including customer visits.

We Offer The Following Benefits

• Annual bonus.
• Medical insurance coverage.
• Onsite lunch facility.
• Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

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 at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.