Flavorist, Sweet

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and make a real impact?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Taste: Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success.

The role is based in Bengaluru, India (Onsite role). Be part of a motivated, passionate, and open-minded team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

• Work independently and within project teams by collaborating with other cross functional teams to develop winning flavors.

• Proactively evaluate new raw materials and assess potential for future use in creating new flavors.

• Collaborate with internal and external customers to provide insightful partnership and leverage trusting relationships.

• Demonstrate creativity and innovation in your everyday work maximize IFF technologies and provide innovative flavor solutions.

• Interaction with key customers to understand requirements & build strong and trusted partnership.

• Strong understanding of global capabilities, effective global & regional network to leverage technical knowledge.

• Define gaps in product portfolio & technologies and takes creative efforts to meet consumer needs.

• Understands that different situations and levels may call for different skills and approaches.

• Deploys strengths to overcome weaknesses.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a Master’ degree in Food science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any other relevant discipline.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in the Flavor Industry within a creative function.

• Solid understanding of Flavors Sweet Category and a strong emphasis on Flavor creation and applications, raw materials and chemical processes.

• Possess strong Flavor creation, innovation and development technical know-how in a B2B or B2C environment.

• Strong interest in evaluating new raw materials and assessing potential for future use in creating new flavors.

• Good in building strong customer relations and capable in leading sizeable technical projects.

• Possess flavor creation techniques with strong familiarity in Sweet products market trends.

How Would You Stand Out?

• Comfortable working in a B2B environment with a positive, self-driven or results oriented attitude.

• Strong teamwork, customer orientation, project management, effective time management skills with proven ability to oversee all assigned projects and meeting deadlines are highly desirable.

Why Choose Us?

• Multinational and supporting environment

• Health insurance

• Training opportunities

• Learning and development programs

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more