Senior Technical Flavorist

Purpose

• Improve flavor profitability: review and rework formulas for cost optimization, improve manufacturing efficiency, and support business continuity.
• Business continuity: Ingredient replacement, regulatory compliance, supply issue resolution, acquisition integration support
• Margin improvement via raw materials and reformulation to meet a yearly defined target
• Creative catalogue maintenance•    Improve flavor profitability: review and rework formulas for cost optimization, improve manufacturing efficiency, and support business continuity.
• Business continuity: Ingredient replacement, regulatory compliance, supply issue resolution, acquisition integration support
• Margin improvement via raw materials and reformulation to meet a yearly defined target
• Creative catalogue maintenance
   

Responsibilities

Business continuity & maintenance (25%):

• Compliance: Work with Global Regulatory Affairs team to reformulate to meet regulatory requirements due to customer or country regulations; communicate the changes to the Creative community.
• Ingredient Replacement: Act as the regional contact point for all mass ingredient replacement activities.
• Supply issues: Reformulate to ensure continuity of supply of selling products whenever there is a raw material supply issue necessitating such a change.
   

 Margin Improvement (25%)

• Work with various internal teams to improve low margin items
• Reformulate to meet margin improvement targets
• Support the Global Purchasing (GP) group to evaluate new sources of ingredients

Coordination & Project Management (15%)

Support the Material Review Committee’s new raw material introduction process (15%)

• Work with other creative flavorists and GP to improve the process and reduce lead time of new material introduction

Support the Quality group (10%)

• Assist in troubleshooting for any quality issue and complaints

 Creative Guidelines and process & Training (10%)

• Review and set creative guidelines to ensure formula optimization and efficiency, share lessons learned.
• Responsible to train junior Flavorists
• Provide training to other functions
   

Knowledge & Experience

• Four Year Degree/Bachelor of Science degree (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences etc.) 
• 10 years as a flavorist
• Completed qualifying Flavorist training Program and/or proven track record at equivalent level of experience
• Certified Member of the Flavor Chemist Society with proven track record at equivalent level of experience
• Fluent in English. 
• Excellent communication, computer and math skills.
   
• Preferred: 
• Master’s degree in Food Technology, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Food Engineering and/or Chemistry Engineering.
• Proven artistic ability. Presentation skills, project management skills.
• Proven successful mentoring of Flavorist from trainee level to Flavorist.

Competency & Skills

• Comfortable around higher management.
• Can determine the best way to get things done with colleagues by talking their "language" and responding to their needs.
• Can craft approaches likely to be seen as appropriate and positive.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous learning.
• Looks toward the broadest possible view of an issue/challenge.
• Can easily pose future scenarios.
• Can think globally.

Authority

• Sign off formula changes
• Approve Raw material replacement
• Responsible for reformulation
   

Support Needed

• Support of Creative Flavorists
• System support: IFFMan & SAP 
• Technical/Applications/Creation
• Global Purchasing, Process Engineering, QA/QC, GRA, Pricing Officer

Reports to:    Global Director, Technical Flavorist Group

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