Flavorist - Beverages
Chicago NW suburbs, IL US
Job Description
Flavorist – Beverages
This role will work in the Beverage and/or Functional Nutrition Business Unit. The Flavorist will independently create and evaluate flavors for a variety of applications with the use of proprietary technologies. This role will interface with customers, multiple R&D teams, responding to specific project requests. Additionally, the Flavorist promotes the commercialization of flavors with QA/production and supports any challenges in the flavor manufacturing plant.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Creation of flavors for products providing great tasting and cost optimized flavors for Industrial Customers
- Self-directing on complex projects including planning and leading cross functional project teams, defining, and assessing project requirements and designing and managing experiments
- Commercialization of flavors (understanding of processes and operations for product manufacture) and troubleshooting problems
- Interface and communicate project status with customers and commercial team
- Supervise and instruct lower-level employees
- Proactively evaluates and assess new ingredients and technologies and work to develop areas that may need improvement
**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristen Gawrys at kgawrys@cps4jobs.com
JO: 148.23KG
#LI-KG1
Job Requirements
Technical Qualifications:
- BS in Food Science/Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field
- Certified member of the Society of Flavor Chemist
- At least 10 years of total experience in the field of flavor development, preferably beverages
- In-depth understanding of ingredients and technology involved with flavor formation, application and stability
- Knowledgeable in raw materials, manufacturing processes, quality assurance programs and food regulations
- An in depth understanding of ingredients and technology along with their impact on product taste and functionality
- Skilled in catalog of flavor raw materials and functionality, processing methods
- Experienced in commercialization of flavors in production; QA release and trouble shooting
- Has excellent ability in taste discrimination and flavor descriptor vocabulary
**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristen Gawrys at kgawrys@cps4jobs.com.
JO: 148.23KG
#LI-KG1