Technical Flavorist
About this position
Responsibilities
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support the Material Review Committee’s new raw material introduction process.
• Work with other Creative Flavorists and GP to improve the process and reduce lead time of new material introduction.
• Assist in troubleshooting for any quality issue and complaints.
• Review and set creative guidelines to ensure formula optimization and efficiency, share lessons learned.
• Responsible to train junior Flavorists.
• Provide training to other functions.
Requirements
• Bachelor Degree of Science in fields of Chemistry, Food Science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any relevant discipline from a reputable institute will be essential.
• 7-10 years of Flavor creation, improvement experience in Flavors, Food Ingredients or