Job Opportunities Senior Flavourist Beverages mwd 113209

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 is much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 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 for billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As a Senior Flavourist at Givaudan, you will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. Our passion for our customers, the big food and beverage companies, and their brands, brings a new dimension to our Business to Business industry.

You will work for the market leader at the forefront of innovation in an industry driven by emotions. Our culture inspires challenge and aims to capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers have both national and international profiles, which brings diversity and curiosity to our daily work.

In your role, you will contribute to our business growth by developing flavors for our customers in Germany. You will work on reactive customer briefs and proactively suggest ideas to help our customers bring consumer-preferred and differentiating products to market. You will be part of the Commercial team based in Dortmund, Germany, reporting to the Technical Manager Germany.

In this exciting role, you will:

1. Formulate new flavor creations or modify existing flavors to meet customer requirements, internal testing needs, or new technology development at an expert level for selected flavor types.
2. Execute daily brief-related tasks, manage assigned projects, and provide flavors that meet all defined customer needs, manufacturing practices, sample scale-up, regulatory compliance, etc., including leading customer visits for flavor creation and product presentations.
3. Establish and maintain relationships with a broad range of complex customers, gaining their trust and respect.
4. Serve as a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, and customers on ingredient and flavor performance, resolving flavor production issues and customer complaints, and owning created flavors.
5. Coordinate the evaluation of internally or externally developed materials and assess their potential for flavor creation.
6. Prepare flavor samples as needed for customer briefs, applications, technology performance assessments, QC standards, and physical testing.
7. Act as a local champion for new technologies.
8. Coach, mentor, and manage flavor assistants and flavorists.
9. Maintain a safe, clean, and organized lab environment following EH&S policies and participate in designing necessary rules.

About You:

1. 7 years of experience as a Flavourist after completing the Givaudan Flavourist Training program or an accepted industry equivalent.
2. Experience in flavor creation within the beverage segment.
3. Demonstrated expert tasting skills and the ability to adjust flavor formulations accordingly.
4. Expert knowledge of raw materials and flavor ingredients, with the ability to formulate various flavor types to meet performance and problem-solving needs.
5. Ability to discuss flavor creation needs across multiple types and provide guidance for flavor performance issues.
6. Proficiency in presenting technical flavor creation topics, integrating knowledge from applications, sensory analysis, consumer insights, and science.
7. Expertise in formulating delivery systems for various applications.
8. Proficient in analytical methodologies such as GCMS and HPLC.
9. Deep understanding of technologies affecting flavor stability and performance.
10. Ability to manage flavor assistants.
11. Fluent in English, spoken and written.

Our Benefits include:

• Company pension scheme
• Bicycle leasing
• 30 days holiday
• Access to a fitness center
• Workplace massage
• Free biofruit water, coffee, and tea
• And much more

Please submit your application in English.

LIOnsite

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

You work within an inspiring team culture where you can thrive, collaborate, and learn from talented and passionate colleagues across disciplines, regions, and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and fosters closer connections with our employees, customers, and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can impact our world.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills: Campaigns, Data Entry, Christmas Temporary, Advocacy, Control Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Senior Mwd • Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany