Company: This US-based ingredient business has built a strong technical foundation focused on developing tailored solutions for food manufacturers across a range of applications.

With a growing production footprint and increasing investment into R&D and process capability, the company works closely with customers to deliver consistent product performance across multiple end-use categories. Their approach combines applied science with practical formulation expertise, supporting both product optimisation and new development initiatives.

The organisation continues to scale, strengthening its operational and commercial capabilities to meet increasing demand from a global customer base. Despite this growth, the culture remains hands-on, collaborative and focused on solving complex technical challenges in a commercially viable way.

Role: The Flavourist / Senior Flavourist will take a lead role in developing and optimising flavour systems across the company’s product portfolio. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this position will focus on both building new flavour profiles from scratch and refining existing formulations to meet customer and application requirements.

The role requires a strong balance between technical flavour creation and practical application, ensuring that flavour performance is maintained across different matrices and processing conditions. You will work closely with R&D, regulatory, manufacturing and commercial teams to align flavour development with broader product and customer objectives.

In this role you will be responsible for advancing flavour capabilities, supporting customer-driven projects, and contributing to the scale-up of formulations into commercial production.

Main Responsibilities

• Design, compound and optimise flavour systems using aroma chemicals, natural extracts and reaction flavours
• Develop new flavour profiles from scratch and adapt existing systems to meet specific product and customer requirements
• Evaluate and adjust flavour performance across different applications, ensuring consistency through processing conditions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including R&D, regulatory, applications and manufacturing to align development with product objectives
• Interpret sensory data and correlate flavour composition with consumer and application performance
• Support regulatory and labelling considerations related to flavour formulation
• Manage relationships with external flavour houses and raw material suppliers
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to internal knowledge sharing and capability development
• Prepare technical documentation, reports and presentations to support internal and external stakeholders

Key Requirements

• Degree in Food Science, Flavour Science, Chemistry or a related field
• 8+ years’ experience in flavour creation or a flavour-centric role within the food ingredients industry
• Hands-on experience in compounding and designing flavour systems using aroma chemicals, natural extracts and reaction flavours
• Strong understanding of flavour chemistry and interactions within complex food matrices
• Ability to evaluate, describe and refine sensory profiles across multiple applications
• Experience working cross-functionally within R&D, application and manufacturing environments
• Knowledge of flavour regulations and labelling requirements is advantageous
• Strong problem-solving ability with a practical and data-driven approach
• Excellent communication and project management skills.