job description - Flavourist
- The role supports flavour sales growth, flavour creation, flavour production and flavour library by working efficiently to support customer briefs while maintaining a vision of what will work best for customers.
- Extend capabilities by collaborating with other flavourists to support initiatives and projects.
- Develop flavours and interact with customers, other flavourists, sensory scientists, production, and suppliers to ensure that goals are met and that briefs are completed in a timely manner.
- Have significant experience in his/her area of expertise and continue to share knowledge in flavour development.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for flavour creation projects within the region
- Independently lead projects, developing flavours in line with business needs and in response to customer briefs
- Proactively work with new ingredients
- Understand Kerry technologies and utilize technology to deliver unique solutions to project brief
- Deliver technical presentations and working sessions with customers
- Interact with key customers regionally to understand requirements and build solid relationships
- Mentoring and training the junior flavour creation team
- Perform physical, chemical, and organoleptic testing and analysis of flavours
- Have an extensive understanding of raw materials, finished products, production, regulatory, analytical and flavour application.
- Have adequate understanding of GC/MS and other industry techniques applied for flavour analyses.
- Work with analytical group on flavour matching projects
- Employ thorough knowledge of relevant regulatory and labelling requirements for flavours
- Work with cross functional teams to optimize the strengths of our company and deliver the best Taste and Nutrition experience for our customers
- Participate in sensory panels
Qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Life Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or relevant industry experience
- 5+ years of active flavour work on the bench
- Good background in organic chemistry, food chemistry, flavour applications.
- Good math skills for problem-solving calculations.
- Strong trouble-shooting skills
- Strong and discerning sense of smell and taste
- Cross category flavour experience is preferred, but specialized knowledge in flavours for sweet and beverage applications is essential.
- Demonstrates passion for flavour creations
- Demonstrates strong ability for problem-solving and complaint resolution
- Demonstrates strong ability to work with cross-functional teams at multi levels within the organization.
- Demonstrates professionalism
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change.
- Has no limitations to tasting a variety of materials
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