Senior Flavorist

Company: This company is a well-established international flavour and fragrance business with a strong presence across the food and beverage industry.

The organisation supports a broad customer base, ranging from emerging food and beverage brands through to major g lobal manufacturers, and is

recognised for its technical capability, creative approach and long-standing investment in flavour innovation.

The business combines the resources and stability of a global organisation with a highly collaborative and team-focused culture. Its North American

flavour creation team is known for being technically strong, supportive and commercially engaged, with a clear focus on developing creative, high-

performing flavour solutions for customers.

Due to continued growth and future succession planning within the flavour creation team, the company is now seeking to appoint an experienced Senior

Sweet Flavourist.

Role: The company is seeking an experienced and highly creative Senior Sweet Flavourist to join its North American creation team. The role will focus on

the development, optimisation and matching of sweet flavour profiles across a broad range of food and beverage applications.

The successful individual will work across categories including beverage, confectionery, bakery, dairy, sweet brown flavours, fruit flavours, tropical

profiles, mint and other sweet applications. Experience in taste modulation would be particularly valuable, although the company is also open to

candidates with strong broader sweet flavour creation experience.

This is a hands-on flavour creation position, requiring someone who is technically strong, commercially aware and comfortable working in a cu stomer-

driven environment. The role will involve both new flavour creation and flavour matching, with the balance depending on customer demand and project

requirements.

The company is looking for someone who brings strong technical capability, but also the right personality fit. The flavour cr eation team operates in a

collaborative and supportive way, with a culture built around shared success, technical learning, open communication and respect. This is not an

environment suited to someone highly individualistic or overly competitive. The successful candidate will be someone who enjo ys working as part of a

team, supporting colleagues, mentoring developing talent and contributing positively to the wider creation culture.

This position offers the opportunity to join a respected international flavour house, working as part of a highly experienced team on technically challenging

and commercially important customer projects.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop creative and commercially relevant sweet flavour solutions across multiple application areas, including beverage, confectionery, bakery,

dairy and related categories

• Create, modify and optimise flavour formulations in line with customer briefs, market trends, regulatory requirements and cost objectives

• Support both new flavour creation and flavour matching projects, depending on customer and business needs

• Work across a broad range of flavour profiles, including fruit, tropical, sweet brown, mint and other sweet flavour types

• Contribute technical expertise to taste modulation projects where relevant

• Collaborate closely with applications, sales, marketing, regulatory and commercial teams to support customer development projects

• Provide technical input during customer discussions, presentations and project reviews where required

• Support customer-facing activity by explaining flavour development work, technical challenges and creative inspiration behind flavour solutions

• Troubleshoot flavour performance challenges and support reformulation or optimisation projects

• Maintain accurate formulation records, project documentation and technical information

• Support scale-up and commercialisation activity in collaboration with operations, quality and production teams

• Keep up to date with consumer trends, ingredient innovation, flavour technologies and competitive market activity

• Work collaboratively with other flavourists, trainees, technologists and wider technical teams

• Contribute to a positive, supportive and knowledge-sharing team culture

• Ensure all flavour creation work complies with relevant quality, regulatory and internal standards

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Food Technology or a related scientific discipline

• Proven industry experience within flavour creation, with a strong focus on sweet flavour development

• Ideally operating at Senior Flavourist level, although experienced Flavourists with strong technical capability will also be considered

• Certification with the Society of Flavor Chemists is strongly preferred

• Strong technical knowledge of flavour raw materials, flavour chemistry, formulation principles and application performance

• Demonstrated experience across sweet applications such as beverages, confectionery, bakery, dairy or related categories

• Experience in taste modulation would be highly advantageous

• Strong capability in flavour matching, reformulation and optimisation would be highly valued

• Ability to work across a broad range of flavour profiles, rather than one narrow specialism only

• Strong tasting, sensory evaluation and creative development skills

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment

• Able to communicate effectively with technical, commercial and customer-facing teams

• Comfortable engaging with customers and contributing to technical discussions or presentations when required

• Strong understanding of relevant North American food and flavour regulations

• Highly collaborative, respectful and team-oriented working style

• Open-minded, authentic and passionate about flavour creation

• Willing and able to work on-site in the Midwest region of the US

• Candidates must already have the right to work in the US, as visa sponsorship is not available for this position