Flavourist at Kerry

About the role

• The role supports flavour sales growth, flavour creation, flavour production and flavour library by working efficiently to support customer briefs while maintaining a vision of what will work best for customers.
• Extend capabilities by collaborating with other flavourists to support initiatives and projects.
• Develop flavours and interact with customers, other flavourists, sensory scientists, production, and suppliers to ensure that goals are met and that briefs are completed in a timely manner.
• Have significant experience in his/her area of expertise and continue to share knowledge in flavour development.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for flavour creation projects within the region
• Independently lead projects, developing flavours in line with business      needs and in response to customer briefs
• Proactively work with new ingredients
• Understand Kerry technologies and utilize technology to deliver unique solutions to project brief
• Deliver technical presentations and working sessions with customers
• Interact with key customers regionally to understand requirements and build solid relationships
• Mentoring and training the junior flavour creation team
• Perform physical, chemical, and organoleptic testing and analysis of flavours
• Have an extensive understanding of raw materials, finished products, production, regulatory, analytical and flavour application.
• Have adequate understanding of GC/MS and other industry techniques applied for flavour analyses.
• Work with analytical group on flavour matching projects
• Employ thorough knowledge of relevant regulatory and labelling requirements for flavours
• Work with cross functional teams to optimize the strengths of our company and deliver the best Taste and Nutrition experience for our customers
• Participate in sensory panels

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Life Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or relevant industry experience
• 5+ years of active flavour work on the bench
• Good background in organic chemistry, food chemistry, flavour applications.
• Good math skills for problem-solving calculations.
• Strong trouble-shooting skills
• Strong and discerning sense of smell and taste
• Cross category flavour experience is preferred, but specialized knowledge in flavours for sweet and beverage applications is essential.
• Demonstrates passion for flavour creations
• Demonstrates strong ability for problem-solving and complaint resolution
• Demonstrates strong ability to work with cross-functional teams at multi levels within the organization.
• Demonstrates professionalism
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change.
• Has no limitations to tasting a variety of materials