Culinary R&D Innovator — Onsite Product Dev Chef

Sensient Technologies Corporation; Hoffman Estates, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Sensient Technologies Corporation is seeking a Product Development Chef to turn culinary ideas into commercially viable food and beverage applications. You will lead hands-on development, collaborate with marketing and technical teams, and work closely with customer chefs to deliver prototypes and tailored solutions.

The role emphasizes a strong culinary background, food science insight, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced research setting with travel to customers and industry events.

Qualifications

• Formal education in culinary arts, food science, or related field.
• Professional culinary certification is a plus.
• Significant experience in research culinary roles within food manufacturing or related environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop commercially viable culinary concepts across flavors and technologies.
• Translate trends into consumer-relevant concepts and prototypes.
• Lead the research kitchen: inventory, recipe development, food safety, sanitation.
• Collaborate with commercial, marketing, application, innovation, flavor, sensory, and technical teams for demos and solutions.
• Co-create innovative concepts with customer chefs and product developers.
• Provide culinary guidance to flavor and application teams for authentic delivery.
• Represent Sensient at meetings, events, and forums to feed culinary insights into strategy.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Customer engagement

Commercial awareness

Hands-on culinary

Team cross-functional

Fast-paced environment

Education

Culinary arts degree

Food science degree

Culinary certification

Job description

Sensient Technologies Corporation is seeking a Product Development Chef to turn culinary ideas into commercially viable food and beverage applications. You will lead hands-on development, collaborate with marketing and technical teams, and work closely with customer chefs to deliver prototypes and tailored solutions.

The role emphasizes a strong culinary background, food science insight, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced research setting with travel to customers and industry events.