Flavorist, Sweet

IFF; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,50,000 - 6,75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global leader in taste and innovation as a Flavorist in the Creation & Design team. This exciting role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop unique flavors for the food and beverage industry. With over a decade of experience, you will leverage your expertise in flavor creation and customer relations to drive innovative solutions. The company values diversity and fosters an inclusive workplace, encouraging you to bring your authentic self to work. If you are passionate about flavor innovation and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the Flavor Industry with a focus on flavor creation.
• Strong understanding of flavors and chemical processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop winning flavors by collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Evaluate new raw materials for flavor creation.

Skills

Flavor creation

Customer relations

Project management

Creativity and innovation

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science

Master’s Degree in Food Technology

Job description

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Job Summary

Are you inspired to contribute your expertise to a global leader in taste offering customers a broader range of solutions for the food & beverage industry?
We have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and passionate individual to join our Creation & Design (C&D) team as Flavorist, Sweet.

Your Focus

As a Flavorist at IFF, you will contribute to creating great tasting products by working on some of the most exciting projects in the flavor and sweet products industry today.

How You Will Contribute

Key Accountability

• Work independently and within project teams by collaborating with other cross-functional teams to develop winning flavors.
• Proactively evaluate new raw materials and assess potential for future use in creating new flavors.
• Collaborate with internal and external customers to provide insightful partnership and leverage trusting relationships.
• Demonstrate creativity and innovation in your everyday work to maximize IFF technologies and provide innovative flavor solutions.
• Support, drive and lead the use of new technologies in flavor creations.
• Be a partner of choice to customers, both internal and external, via demonstrating technical expertise and creativity.
• Interface with manufacturing and operations or IFF functions as necessary to ensure a smooth bench to batch development and commercialization process.

Strategy & Business Knowledge

• Interaction with key customers to understand requirements & build strong and trusted partnerships.
• Strong understanding of global capabilities, effective global & regional network to leverage technical knowledge.
• Define gaps in product portfolio & technologies and take creative efforts to meet consumer needs.
• Understand regional markets’ taste differences & preferences and create flavors accordingly.
• Foster cross-category collaboration and knowledge sharing to provide technical solutions to internal and external customers.

Presentation Skills

• Effective in a variety of formal presentation settings (internal/external): one-on-one, small and large groups.
• Commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation.

Self-Development

• Personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve himself/herself.
• Understands that different situations and levels may call for different skills and approaches.
• Deploys strengths to overcome weaknesses.

Job Requirements

What You Will Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a Master’s degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any other relevant discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in the Flavor Industry within a creative function.
• Solid understanding of Flavors Sweet Category and a strong emphasis on Flavor creation and applications, raw materials, and chemical processes.
• Possess strong Flavor creation, innovation and development technical know-how in a B2B or B2C environment.
• Strong interest in evaluating new raw materials and assessing potential for future use in creating new flavors.
• Good in building strong customer relations and capable of leading sizeable technical projects.
• Possess flavor creation techniques with strong familiarity in Sweet products market trends.
• Comfortable working in a B2B environment with a positive, self-driven or results-oriented attitude.
• Strong teamwork, customer orientation, project management, effective time management skills with proven ability to oversee all assigned projects and meet deadlines are highly desirable.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more.

We apply science and creativity for a better world.

With the beauty of art and the precision of science, we are an international collective of thinkers who partner with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients, and solutions for products the world craves.

As a global leader in food, beverage, health, biosciences, and sensorial experiences, we do a lot and continually innovate to do it better.

For more than 130 years we’ve been focused on finding the most innovative solutions to help bring “better for you” products to market. While we have grown over the years, we remain agile in our approach and put our customers’ needs at the forefront of our thinking.

We offer end-to-end service that few can deliver on. Our unparalleled product portfolio is the most robust in the industry, and we have leadership positions across key taste, texture, scent, nutrition, enzymes, cultures, soy proteins, and probiotics categories.