Are you inspired to contribute your expertise to a global leader in taste, scent and nutrition, offering customers a broader range of solutions for the food & beverage industry?
We're inviting potential talents who is creative, full of passion with drive to join our Indonesia Nourish team as **Technical Flavorist.**
This is an incredible opportunity to contribute to the overall flavor profitability and business continuity. You will collaborate with other technical experts to work on improving manufacturing efficiency and margin. In this role, you will have opportunities to contribute to the business growth via improvement of IFF Flavor product portfolios.
**Your Focus**
- Improve Flavor profitability: review and rework formulas for cost optimization, improve manufacturing efficiency and support business continuity.
- Business continuity: Ingredient replacement, regulatory compliance, supply issue resolution, acquisition integration support.
- Margin improvement via raw materials and reformulation to meet a yearly defined target.
- Creative catalogue maintenance.
This is an Indonesia based position and will report to Creative Leader, Technical Flavorists.
**How you will contribute**
Business continuity and maintenance
- Compliance: Work with Global Regulatory Affairs team to reformulate, to meet regulatory requirements due to customer or country regulations. Communicate the changes to the Creative community.
- Ingredient Replacement: Act as the Regional contact point for all mass ingredient replacement activities.
- Supply issues: Reformulate to ensure continuity of supply, of selling products whenever there is a raw material supply issue necessitating such a change.
Margin Improvement
- Work with various internal teams to improve low margin items.
- Reformulate to meet margin improvement targets.
- Support the Global Purchasing (GP) group to evaluate new sources of ingredients.
Coordination and Project Management
Support the Material Review Committee's new raw material introduction process
- Work with other Creative Flavorists and GP to improve the process and reduce lead time of new material introduction.
Support the Quality group
- Assist in troubleshooting for any quality issue and complaints.
Creative Guidelines / Process and Training
- Review and set creative guidelines to ensure formula optimization and efficiency, share lessons learned.
- Responsible to train junior Flavorists.
- Provide training to other functions.
**Job Requirements**:
**What you will need to be successful**
- Bachelor Degree of Science in fields of Chemistry, Food Science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any relevant discipline from a reputable institute will be essential.
- 7-10 years of Flavor creation, improvement experience in Flavors, Food Ingredients or Food Manufacturing industry with excellent smelling and taste evaluation skills.
- Proven track record in Flavorist career or Flavorist training certification.
- Possess strong knowledge of Flavors and food manufacturing processes, specifically extensive knowledge of flavor product and efficiency improvements.
- Ability to work independently and within project teams, strong flavor improvement portfolio for key regional or global customers.
- Demonstrate strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, make quality decision and prioritize task effectively and efficiently under pressure and tight deadline.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- International mindset with local market knowledge on key trends, customer needs and tastes.
- Inquisitive and always go beyond when working on solutions.
- Comfortable working in a B2B environment, positive, self-driven and results oriented.
- Strong teamwork, customer orientation, project management, proven ability to oversee all assigned projects and meeting deadlines are highly desirable.
IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.