Givaudan Careers Beverage Application Scientist - Alcohol Beverages

Givaudan•Cincinnati, OH

1d•$100,000 - $130,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join Givaudan and contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. This role involves performing daily brief-related tasks and applying knowledge during flavor selection, evaluation, and application development in alcohol beverages. The position is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and reports to the Group Lead Manager. The company is a global leader in the food and fragrance industry, with a significant presence in the USA, developing, marketing, and producing a wide array of solutions.

Requirements

Technical Degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology
2+ years of experience in a beverage applications lab, production, or related area
Understanding of most beverage applications, ingredients, and processes, with experience in customers' manufacturing environments
Proficient in formulating alcoholic beverage application and in flavoring alcoholic beverages, including beer.
Expert Project Leader who understands how to lead high priority projects and manage a large workload.
Understanding of many of the flavor reactions/interactions in common beverage products and the ability to recommend flavor modifications based on performance.
Solid experience in alcohol applications in multiple application areas.
Aware of market trends in the alcohol space with the ability to translate market trends into creative products for strategic customers.

Responsibilities

Perform daily brief-related tasks and apply knowledge during flavor selection, evaluation, and application development in alcohol beverages.
Act as a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, flavor creation, and customers for specific beverage applications.
Lead evaluations of flavors in alcohol beverage applications for briefs, research projects, and portfolio evaluations.
Select flavors for beverage projects according to specified requirements (i.e., customer, regulatory, legislation, costs) and suggest improvements for common applications.
Identify appropriate flavor delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in specific applications.
Gain trust and respect with a limited number of customers.
Maintain flavor performance data for the flavor portfolio through evaluation in finished product and capture of profiles.
Coach, train, and motivate technicians and technologists.
Work with on-site customer working sessions.
Present to customers, including demo samples with supporting PowerPoint/formulations.
Articulate and comfortable discussing material with customers in a team setting with Sales and Marketing.
Maintain a safe, clean, and organized lab environment observing EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines.
Manage projects, including the opportunity to lead large development projects.