Senior Product Development Scientist - Sense Colour

Givaudan; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Product Development Scientist to innovate in the field of natural colors. This role involves leading projects, collaborating with teams, and providing technical expertise to enhance product offerings. You will play a crucial role in formulating and testing color solutions that meet customer needs, while also mentoring and fostering a diverse work environment. Join a company that values creativity and teamwork, where your contributions will positively impact the sensory experiences of food and beverages enjoyed by millions. If you are passionate about color science and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical plans

Dental plans

Vision plans

High matching 401k

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in color development and testing.
• Knowledge of natural colors and their botanical sources.

Responsibilities

• Lead natural color development projects and direct research initiatives.
• Prepare color samples and formulate new color creations.

Skills

Color Development

Color Blending

Problem Solving

Technical Leadership

Knowledge Sharing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

Bachelor’s Degree in Biology

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Senior Product Development Scientist - Sense Colour

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, 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 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity 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.

Bold beetroot, eye-catching carrot or bright blue spirulina? From shelf to plate, color has the power to expand the sensory experience of a food or beverage product, allowing consumers to eat with their eyes. Combined with a pinch of imagination, natural colors can be transformed into many creative solutions for our customers that give you your food and beverages of choice.

Reporting to the Sense Colour Senior NPD Manager for Americas, you will lead Natural color development projects, direct research initiatives and support knowledge sharing to promote our growth.

• Technical Leadership: Prepare color samples for customer briefs, applications needs, technology performance assessment, QC standards, and physical testing. Formulate new color creations or modify existing to meet customer requirements, internal testing needs, or new technology development. Coordinate the evaluation of color materials developed internally or from external sources and assess potential for color development. Lead customer visits.
• Knowledge Sharing and Team Collaboration: Participate in large research, customer, and internal technical projects to create innovative colors. Be the technical expert to marketing, sales, and customers for discussions on Natural color performance, raw materials and botanical sources, and stability aspects of multiple natural color sources and be able to discuss the science behind the aspects of performance. Provide technical support to resolve color production issues and customer complaints with complete ownership of created colors.
• Mentor and Train: Build a diverse and inclusive environment that leverages differences in styles, thinking and approaches. Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment observing EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines, and participate in designing the rules which are required.

You?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology or other science area.
• 5+ years’ experience in colors with training in color blending and testing in finished product for performance and stability.
• Experience with Natural colors with an advanced level of understanding for colors and their botanical sources.
• Knowledge of color raw materials and related ingredients with the ability to formulate blends to achieve performance for customer briefs, problem solving processes, research and development needs.
• Knowledge of local and regional regulatory requirements for Natural colors.

Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans and a high matching 401k.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions. Every essence of you enriches our world. Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.