Sr. Beverage Product Applications & Development Technologist

Symrise AG; Teterboro (NJ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Symrise AG in the United States (New Jersey area) seeks a senior technical lead to own end-to-end delivery of customer projects and manage scope, timelines, and risks to meet technical and commercial objectives. You will lead complex programs for strategic customers and guide customer co-creation sessions.

Develop differentiated beverage prototypes translating marketing insights into customer-ready solutions, and act as a trusted technical partner from concept through commercialization.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to interpret and translate Customer & Marketing direction into winning Beverage concepts.
• Strong knowledge of flavors, technologies, processing, and ingredient functionality.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and customer co-creation sessions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer projects, managing scope, timelines, and risks to meet technical and commercial objectives.
• Lead complex programs for strategic and/or large customers and lead customer co-creation sessions.
• Lead development of differentiated beverage prototypes that translate Marketing insights and BU strategy into customer-ready solutions.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to customers, providing expert guidance from concept through commercialization and resolving scale-up challenges.
• Travel to customer sites to support technical presentations, workshops or commercialization activities.
• Provide technical coaching, training, and mentoring to elevate team capability and promote best practices.

Job description

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.

With sales of around €4.9 billion in the 2025 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.

Symrise - always inspiring more...

Your role

• A. Own end-to-end delivery of customer projects, managing scope, timelines, and risks to meet technical and commercial objectives. Lead complex programs for strategic and/or large customers and lead customer co-creation sessions.
• B. Take on special tasks and cross-functional initiatives to support BU objectives.
• C. Lead development of differentiated beverage prototypes (e.g., water, coffee, tea, dairy, carbonated, juice, alcoholic, functional) that translate Marketing insights and BU strategy into customer-ready solutions. Develop robust formulas and total beverage systems that balance performance, processing, cost-in-use, and quality. Stay current on ingredients, technologies, and processing to proactively enable new opportunities.
• D. Act as a trusted technical partner to customers, providing expert guidance from concept through commercialization. Resolve complex formulation and scale-up challenges by applying advanced knowledge of flavors, technologies, processing, and ingredient functionality.
• E. Travel to customer sites to support technical presentations, workshops or commercialization activities.
• F. Provide technical coaching, training, and mentoring to elevate team capability, promote best practices, and strengthen overall technical excellence.

Proven ability to interpret and translate Customer & Marketing direction into winning Beverage concepts

Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.

Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Pay Transparency Disclosure: The expected annual salary range for this position is USD $96,000.00 - USD $135,000.00. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.