Senior Seasoning Scientist

It’s an exciting time to be part of IFF, we are looking for our next Senior Seasoning Scientist to become part of our industry-leading seasoning development team in Carrollton, TX team.

To be successful in this role you must have experience successfully developing and applying seasonings to food products; supporting and leading reactive customer briefs (domestic & global), executing proactive category initiatives, and evaluating new technologies.

The position involves strong interaction with customers, other technical personnel, sales, operations, regulatory affairs, sensory and global purchasing.

As a Senior Seasoning Scientist, you will be part of a team responsible for…

• Executing culinary, meat and snack food customer briefs in addition to completing commercial technology validation and implementation for the region.
• Building cooperative relationships with other regional category technical counterparts essential for leveraging company technical resources in support of global briefs and technology implementation.
• Developing consumer preferred flavor systems for key regional and global opportunities within project teams in focus categories.
• Providing leadership to advance strategic category and platform initiatives.
• Providing cross-functional Project Management when designated as project leader.
• Independently developing seasoning blends/flavor solutions that are market preferred through bench top product development, leveraging culinary input, technical innovation, and consumer insights.
• Delivering flavor solutions in a cost- effective manner while driving technical insulation to provide competitive advantage.
• Providing insight and technical input for strategies to grow our business.
• Providing seasonings product development support for our customers to include building and sustaining relationships across multiple levels and functions within customers organizations.
• Regularly visiting technical groups to discuss new opportunities and technical needs.
• Demonstrating leadership by successfully working with Regional and Global contacts within assigned teams to ensure highest win rate possible by developing seasonings to requirements (regulatory and client restrictions) and building customer relationships.
• Anticipating, investigating, and resolving issues related to raw materials, flavor systems, finished prototypes, andinitial scale up procedures.
• Participating directly and providing cross-functional leadership in strategic category and platform initiatives to build directed seasoning capabilities.
• Participating in development programs for both trainee and junior Seasoning Scientist.

BS degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences etc

Minimum 10 years' experience in seasoning formulation and production troubleshooting

2-3 years exposure in interdepartmental cross-functional team roles (leader, participant, manager etc)