Seasoning Flavorist

IFF • Carrollton, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

IFF is seeking a Seasoning Flavorist to develop innovative seasoning blends and flavor solutions for snack applications. Based in Carrollton, Texas, this role works onsite five days per week in a laboratory environment as part of a creative, customer-focused, collaborative Flavor Creation team. The Flavorist will support a key global customer by combining technical expertise, consumer understanding, culinary insights, and commercial awareness.

The role leads customer-brief execution from concept development through validation and commercial implementation. It involves hands-on benchtop product development, direct customer collaboration, cross-functional project leadership, and coordination with regional and global technical teams. The Flavorist also helps resolve raw-material, flavor-system, prototype, manufacturing, and scale-up challenges; delivers cost-effective and differentiated solutions; and contributes technical and market insights to business growth, product optimization, process improvement, and category innovation. Travel of up to 20% is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, technical training, and relevant experience.
• At least 4 years of relevant experience in food manufacturing, food ingredients, seasonings, or the flavor industry.
• Experience developing and applying seasonings to food products; snack-application experience is preferred.
• Ability to independently formulate seasoning blends and flavor solutions through hands-on laboratory and benchtop development.
• Experience responding to customer briefs and translating customer needs into commercially viable technical solutions.
• Experience supporting proactive category initiatives and evaluating or implementing new technologies.
• Strong understanding of raw materials, flavor systems, product development, scale-up, and manufacturing-related problem solving.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with customers and cross-functional, regional, and global stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%.
• Ability to work onsite five days per week in Carrollton, Texas.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Food Science, Food Chemistry, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects or strategic category and technology-platform initiatives.
• Creative, solution-oriented approach combining technical expertise, consumer insight, and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Develop consumer-preferred seasoning blends and flavor solutions for snack applications using benchtop product development, culinary insights, technical innovation, and consumer understanding.
• Lead technical execution of regional and global customer briefs from concept development through validation and commercial implementation.
• Work directly with customers to understand technical needs, identify opportunities, and build relationships across functions and organizational levels.
• Collaborate with Sales, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Global Purchasing, and technical teams to meet customer, regulatory, manufacturing, and business requirements.
• Lead or support strategic category and technology-platform initiatives that strengthen seasoning capabilities and accelerate innovation.
• Anticipate, investigate, and resolve challenges involving raw materials, flavor systems, finished prototypes, manufacturing processes, and initial scale-up activities.
• Deliver cost-effective flavor solutions with technical differentiation and competitive advantage.
• Provide cross-functional project leadership and coordinate with regional and global technical teams to improve project execution and customer win rates.
• Contribute technical and market insights that support business growth, process improvements, product optimization, and proactive category opportunities.

Benefits

• Opportunity to create seasoning solutions for high-profile regional and global snack opportunities.
• Direct exposure to a key global customer and collaboration with technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Hands-on involvement across the innovation process, from early formulation through scale-up and commercialization.
• Access to IFF’s global technical expertise, flavor technologies, culinary insights, and consumer understanding.
• Opportunities to lead strategic category initiatives and influence seasoning innovation.
• Collaborative environment supporting professional growth, creative problem solving, and meaningful business impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level