Senior Flavourist Beverages (m/w/d)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances, and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As Sr Flavourist in Givaudan, you will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. Our passion for our customers - the big food and beverage companies - and their brands brings a new dimension to our Business to Business industry.

You will work for the market leader that is at the forefront of innovation in an industry of emotions. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge, and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers have national and international profiles, which brings diversity and curiosity to our daily job.

In your role, you will contribute to our business growth by developing flavours for our customers in Germany. You will work on reactive customer briefs, but also come with proactive ideas to help our customers bring consumer preferred and differentiating products on the market. You will be part of the Commercial team Germany based in Dortmund and you will report to the Technical Manager Germany.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, deliver value, and are skilled at fostering strong customer relationships.

In this exciting job you will:

• Formulate new flavour creations or modify existing flavours to meet customer requirements, internal testing needs, or new technology development at an expert level for selected flavour types.
• Execute daily brief-related tasks and manage assigned projects to provide flavours that meet all defined customer needs and comply with good manufacturing practices, sample scale-up, production requirements, regulatory compliance, etc., as well as leading customer visits for flavour creation and product presentations when required.
• Establish and maintain relationships with a broad number of complex customers; able to gain their trust and respect.
• Be a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, and customers for ingredient and flavour performance at an expert level for selected flavour types to resolve flavour production issues and customer complaints, taking complete ownership of created flavours.
• Coordinate the evaluation of materials developed internally or from external sources and assess potential for flavour creation.
• Prepare flavour samples as requested for customer briefs, applications needs, technology performance assessment, QC standards, and physical testing.
• Be a local champion for new technologies.
• Coach, train, mentor, and manage flavour assistants and flavourists.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and organized lab environment in accordance with EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines, participating in designing the rules required.

About You:

• 7+ years experience as a Flavourist after completion of Givaudan Flavourist Training programme or accepted industry equivalent.
• Flavour Creation experience in the Beverages segment.
• Demonstrates expert level tasting skills with an expert level ability to understand how to adjust a flavour formulation in the direction needed for flavour modifications.
• Expert level knowledge of raw materials and flavour ingredients with an expert level ability to formulate many flavour types to deliver flavour performance for customer briefs, problem-solving processes, research and development needs, etc.
• Expert level ability to interface with customers and effectively discuss flavour creation needs for multiple flavour types and provide direction to help solve flavour performance issues in their applications.
• Ability to prepare and present flavour creation related technical presentations with some basic elements of other functions such as applications, sensory, consumer understanding, analytical science, marketing, etc.
• Expert level knowledge of formulating suitable delivery systems for various application bases.
• Expert level knowledge of analytical methodologies (GC-MS, HPLC).
• Expert level knowledge of the technology used for improved performance, specific technical aspects affecting flavour stability in base, etc. for a few flavour types.
• Ability to supervise and manage flavour assistant(s).
• Fluent knowledge of English (spoken and written).

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions, and divisions. Every essence of you enriches our world. Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers, and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.