Senior Flavour Application Food Technologist (Sweet Segment)
About this position
Responsibilities
• Develop new or improve application recipes to support sweet flavor development (beverages, dairy, confectionery, bakery)
• Elaborate innovative prototypes in collaboration with evaluators, sales and marketing team for pro-active presentations to customers
• Be a relay of the Application Manager and supervise applications lab assistants.
• Guide and mentor the more junior team members.
• Perform calculations such as nutritional values, sweetness equivalence, recipes ingredients cost…
• Share knowledge related to application and give technical support to the team (process, ingredient, regulation) and to customers
• Run pilot equipment such as UHT, carbonator, homogenizer, and others.
• Ensure preventive maintenance of the equipment in the lab is periodically performed.
• Sourcing new food ingredients for application and maintain database updated (stock, technical info, suppliers contacts, …).
• Ensure developments are following defined legal, ethical and customer requirements.
• Be updated with new developments in ingredients and application technologies.
• Record and update application recipes in our ERP.
• Ensure that the applications lab is kept in a safe, clean, and hygienic work condition at all times.
Requirements
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in food science or related fields.
• At least 8-10 years experience in flavors/food ingredient/food manufacturing industry.
• Excellent taste, discrimination and articulation - ingredients, flavors and applications.
• Strong project, time management and organization skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Effective team player with excellent communication skills.
• Creative, innovative, resourceful, and able to think outside the box.
• Results-oriented, self-starter, proactive for continuous improvement and good problem-solving skills.
• Extensive hands-on experience in new product development especially in bakery, confectionery, dairy or beverages.
• Mentorship and leadership skills to supervise, support and develop junior team members.
• Very good command in English.
• Good command of MS Office.