Designer, Bakery Bars & Confectionery - Taste

It's an exciting time of growth for IFF, we’re inviting dedicated and passionate individual to join us as Designer, Bakery Bars & Confectionery in our Singapore Nourish Taste Division. The role will be directly reporting to Design Manager Culinary, Snacks & BBC.

Your Focus

As Designer, BBC you focus on reactive-/proactive customer projects and work closely in collaboration with the commercial counterparts and work closely with a team of flavorists. You will develop business knowledge & technical skills to become a Designer professional.

How you will contribute

Solution design

• Hands on application of sweet / savory flavors to a wide range of bakery & confectionery products.
• Technical partner for strategic and global customer.
• Works closely together with different disciplines especially the creative, product experience team and account managers
• Provide guidance to junior staff to help increase win rate and upgrade their skill when necessary.
• Working closely with Key Customers to provide a technical service and support, including product presentations, flavour recommendations, problem solving.
• Working closely with account managers to provide our local and global customers with technical information on our flavor - including new concept presentations as well as specific reactive customer briefs.
• Working with the Creation & Applications teams on specific projects.
• Dealing directly with customer requests and questions.
• Create, continuously renovate, and maintain recipes/formulations and processing reports for prototypes.
• Work and navigate independently through work tasks and projects.
• Ensure developments are in compliance with the regulatory, religious and customer requirements (GRA legislation, CIU, etc.)
• Ensure that the laboratory is kept in a safe, clean, good maintenance, hygienic work condition always and adhere to IFF EHS policies.
• Always maintain a good stock of raw materials and consumable items in the lab.
• Contributes to internal trainings and workshops.
• Able to work in as team player and collaborator.
• Handle bakery & confectionery related applications within tight timelines.
• Maintains and continuously renovate the IFF recipe database.
• Update the flavor bank collection.

Innovation & New Technology

• Anticipates, investigates, and resolves problems related to finished prototypes with flavor and support initiate scale-up procedures with customer when necessary.
• Ensure using new raw materials, advancing technology, and utilizing IFF technology.
• Contributes to category initiatives.
• Liaise with the creation team (flavorists) to use latest and approved IFF materials in application to offer IFF’s proprietary advantage.
• Demonstrated creativity and an innovative mindset.

Customer Intimacy & Technical Partnership

• Understands and communicates customer business strategy, brands, market preferences and trends.
• Acts and behaves as a strong partner and collaborator to all relevant functions in the business.
• Actively engages with clients to develop end solutions includes researches, refines, and upgrades solutions for client projects.
• Ability to present in-front of customer.

What you will need to be successful

• Tertiary qualifications in Food Science and Technology or related disciplines (such as Bakery Science, food nutrition)
• Minimal 8 - 10 years of relevant experiences in the bakery & confectionary and flavor industry, handling flavors and ingredients with focus on baked goods, confectionery & chewing gum. Knowledge of food manufactures, craft bakery, chocolate, cereal coating experience.
• Demonstrated capability in experimental design, detailed results analysis, and sound technical judgement.
• Open and innovative mindset.
• Sound knowledge in project task and time management.
• Good team player, embraces diversity, ability to work under pressure, be curious.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more