Senior Flavorist, Savory

Are you inspired to contribute your expertise to a global leader in taste, scent and nutrition, offering customers a broader range of solutions for the food & beverage industry?
At IFF, our sense of joy is driven not just by everything we do but why and how we do it. At IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Flavor talent to join our Indonesia team as Senior Flavorist, Savory. Come join the global Ingredients leader!

Your Focus

As Senior Flavorist, you will contribute to the formulation and development for some of the most exciting projects in the flavor and savory products industry today. Working in a collaborative team environment, you will lead, plan and prioritize major Regional projects and Global initiatives.

Proactively developing new tools, technologies and profiles for the Flavors Regional team, you will drive innovation and creativity to assist our customers in enhancing existing product lines and in launching new cutting-edge product initiatives.

This position is Indonesia based and will report to Creation & Design Director, ASEAN/VP Flavorist.

How You Will Contribute

Key Accountability

• Lead flavor creation initiatives to meet customer and internal project requirements, identify potential risks and develop creative solutions to address technical flavor issues.

• Proactively evaluate new raw materials and assess potential for future use in creating new flavors, partner with Operations division to solve potential manufacturing issues.

• Serve as a Technical expert in flavor creation techniques and provide meaningful input into category initiatives.

• Collaborate with internal and external customers to provide insightful partnership and leverage trusting relationships.

• Demonstrates creative leadership across organization to maximize IFF technology and provide innovative flavor solution.

• Supporting, driving and leading the use of new technologies in flavor creations.

• Be a partner of choice to customers, internal or external, via demonstrating technical expertise and capabilities as well as problem solving skills.

• Interfacing with production and other IFF functions as necessary to ensure a smooth bench to batch development and commercialization process.

Strategy & Business knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of global R&D scope, projects and timelines.

• Strong understanding of global capabilities, effective global network.

• Defines gaps in portfolio & technologies to meet consumer needs.

• Represent IFF in promotions to media or in external bodies.

• Active involvement with R&D on regular basis for strategic initiatives.

• Understands regional markets’ taste differences & preferences and create Flavors accordingly.

• Interacts with key customers to understand requirements & build strong and trusted partnership.

• Establishes regional/global network to leverage and exchange knowledge.

• Foster cross category collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Project Management

• Leads creative input on major regional and global projects.

• Directs technology development and implementation in regional projects.

• Manage and resolve key technical challenges with most appropriate resource.

• Demonstrates leadership in managing projects - regional/global.

• Provide input into regional growth initiatives & Innovation Programs.

• Time management: deliver project on time according to customer’s timeline.

Technical knowledge, IFF tools & talent development

• Recognized as a technical expert and leader in the technical community regionally & globally.

• Strengthen ingredient & process knowledge, inside & outside IFF.

• Utilize IFF proprietary technology to deliver unique and winning taste solutions to the marketplace.

• Promote IFF technology & capability within the C&A team.

• Understand competition capabilities, defines IFF gaps to category.

• Support & collaborate on development of IFF flavor training programs.

• Develops customized training program for Trainees, Juniors and Flavorists.

• Creates flavors to fill gaps in the Flavor bank.

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor degree in Food science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any other relevant discipline.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the Flavor Industry within a creative function.

• Solid understanding of Flavors Savory Category and a strong emphasis on Flavor creation and applications, raw materials and chemical processes.

• Proven track record in leading Flavor projects for the Savory category, demonstrates creation leadership potential through commercial projects and their execution.

• 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.

• Technical expert in identifying potential risks and develop creative solutions to address technical flavor issues.

• Good in building strong customer relations and capable in leading sizeable technical projects that are either proactive or go to market (G2M).

• Possess flavor creation techniques with strong familiarity in Savory 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.

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.

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