Flavorist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. in food science, chemistry, or a related field.
• Minimum 8–10 years of flavor creation experience.
• SFC Certified or Apprentice Flavor Chemist required.
• Strong flavor raw-material knowledge and flavor-creation expertise.
• Technical skills in flavor creation, optimization, and production.
• Knowledge of basic chemistry and food science principles relevant to the flavor and beverage industries.
• Understanding of flavor modification properties, taste-modulation technology, and their applications.
• Extensive understanding of flavor delivery systems, including emulsions, extractions, and blends, and their use in beverages.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work with teams and vendor partners.
• Highly motivated and team-oriented, with strong communication skills.
• Results-oriented, with the ability to manage, balance, and prioritize multiple project initiatives to meet business objectives.
• Must have an indefinite right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Strong background in flavors for multiple applications is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create, optimize, and support the production of flavors for beverage systems and other applications.
• Develop and apply new flavors and taste modulators in support of global innovation and business growth objectives.
• Partner with category teams, product development, regulatory, and manufacturing to develop consumer-preferred beverage products.
• Apply taste-modification tools and technologies, considering performance, cost, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate new raw materials and technologies for flavor creation and taste modulation.
• Transition bench-top prototypes to large-scale commercialization in support of global growth initiatives.
• Understand technical roadmaps, quality-control principles, hurdles, and challenges, and ensure final flavors are plant-friendly and sustainable.
• Design experiments to test hypotheses, collect data, and present results that support business objectives.
• Modify existing flavor formulations to deliver specific profiles.
• Apply knowledge of flavor delivery systems, including emulsions, extractions, and blends, in beverage applications.
• Identify, accelerate, and execute market approaches that meet project goals, deliver winning taste profiles, and meet cost targets.
• Build strategic networks and effective working relationships with vendors as needed to support project work.
• Communicate best practices and stability requirements to flavor vendor partners.
• Partner with regional teams to develop flavor systems with appropriate stability, cost, and regulatory characteristics.
• Collaborate under the guidance of directors and senior flavorists.
• Guide and train flavorists in creative approaches and beverage-system development, including TTB-compliant flavors.
• Develop and mentor direct reports.
• Provide technical expertise and support to Quality, Commercialization Engineering, Product Development, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sensory, and Regulatory groups.

Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus with an eligibility target payout of 12% of annual salary.
• Paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement leave, subject to eligibility.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to elections and eligibility.
• Disability coverage, subject to elections and eligibility.
• Health and dependent care reimbursement accounts, subject to elections and eligibility.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Accident, group legal, and life insurance, subject to elections and eligibility.
• Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.