Flavorist, Sweet

Req ID: 499011

Are you inspired to contribute your expertise to a global leader in taste offering customers a broader range of solutions for the food & beverage industry?

We have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and passionate individual to join our Creation & Design (C&D) team as **Flavorist, Sweet**.

**Your Focus**
As a Flavorist at IFF, you will contribute to creating great tasting products by working on some of the most exciting projects in the flavor and sweet products industry today.

**How You Will Contribute**
Key Accountability
- Work independently and within project teams by collaborating with other cross functional teams to develop winning flavors.
- Proactively evaluate new raw materials and assess potential for future use in creating new flavors.
- Collaborate with internal and external customers to provide insightful partnership and leverage trusting relationships.
- Demonstrate creativity and innovation in your everyday work maximize IFF technologies and provide innovative flavor solutions.
- Support, drive and lead the use of new technologies in flavor creations.
- Be a partner of choice to customers, both internal and external, via demonstrating technical expertise and creativity.
- Interface with manufacturing and operations or IFF functions as necessary to ensure a smooth bench to batch development and commercialization process.

Strategy & Business knowledge
- Interaction with key customers to understand requirements & build strong and trusted partnership.
- Strong understanding of global capabilities, effective global & regional network to leverage technical knowledge.
- Define gaps in product portfolio & technologies and takes creative efforts to meet consumer needs.
- Understand regional markets’ taste differences & preferences and create Flavors accordingly.
- Foster cross category collaboration and knowledge sharing to provide technical solutions to internal and external customers.

Presentation Skills
- Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings(internal/external): one -on-one, small and large groups.
- Commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation.

Self-Development
- Is personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve himself/herself.
- Understands that different situations and levels may call for different skills and approaches.
- Deploys strengths to overcome weaknesses.

**Job Requirements**:
**What you will need to be successful**
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a Master’ degree in Food science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any other relevant discipline.
- Minimum 5-6 years of experience in the Flavor Industry within a creative function.
- Possess strong Flavor creation, innovation and development technical know-how in a B2B or B2C environment.
- Strong interest in evaluating new raw materials and assessing potential for future use in creating new flavors.
- Good in building strong customer relations and capable in leading sizeable technical projects.
- Possess flavor creation techniques with strong familiarity in Sweet products market trends.
- Comfortable working in a B2B environment with a positive, self-driven or results oriented attitude.
- Strong teamwork, customer orientation, project management, effective time management skills with proven ability to oversee all assigned projects and meeting deadlines are highly desirable.

IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.