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  • Posted: Apr 6, 2023
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Kerry is a company rich in heritage and resources. Over the past four decades, our focus on changing lifestyles, the globalisation of food tastes and ever-evolving consumer needs has brought us to a market-leading global position. Today, we are firmly established as a world leader in the food, beverage and pharma industries, with 24,000 staff and 100+ inn...
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    Flavourist

    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

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Kerry on jobs.kerry.com to apply

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