Senior Seasoning Flavorist Full-time Job

Major Responsibilities Include

Executing snack food customer briefs and commercial technology validation / implementation for the region.

Building cooperative relationships with other regional category technical counterparts essential for leveraging company technical resources in support of global briefs and technology implementation.

Developing consumer preferred flavor systems for key regional and global opportunities within project teams in focus categories.

Providing leadership to advance strategic category initiatives.

Providing cross-functional Project Management when designated as project leader.

Independently developing seasoning blends/flavor solutions that are market preferred through bench top product development, leveraging culinary input, technical innovation, and consumer insights.

Delivering flavor solutions in a cost effective manner to provide market and technical competitive advantages.

Providing insight and technical input for strategies to grow our business.

Providing seasonings product development support to our customers to include building and sustaining relationships across multiple levels and functions within customer’s organizations.

Demonstrating leadership by successfully working with Regional and Global contacts within assigned teams to ensure highest win rate possible by developing seasonings to requirements (regulatory and client restrictions) and building customer relationships.

Anticipating, investigating, and resolving issues related to raw materials, flavor systems, finished prototypes, and initial scale up procedures.

Participating directly and providing cross-functional leadership in strategic category and platform initiatives to build directed seasoning capabilities.

Participating in development programs for both trainee and junior Seasoning Flavorists.

Job Requirements

Required Skills

Top level competence in Seasoning creation and delivery systems for snacks end use.

Expert tasting and evaluation skills in the snack & culinary segment.

Proactively evaluates & determines added value of new materials and technologies.

Outstanding team player with excellent communication skills.

Fluent in English. Arabic and French languages are highly desirable.

Required Experience

Minimum Bachelor (B.S.) Degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Chemistry, Life Sciences, or other relevant discipline.

Minimum 5 years’ experience in flavor industry creative function (Snack & Culinary segment).

Must have interacted with Global accounts.

We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs.
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With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, were poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldnt be the same.
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