Global Innovation Savory Flavorist

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country.

Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

With a global perspective, we develop and share break-through innovation using science, creativity, and our vast knowledge base in flavor creation, application and sensory science. This is a Global Innovation Savory Flavorist opportunity that focuses on serving all the regions in the world where we do business. Manage long-term development projects to influence the way the world experiences savory creations. This innovation flavorist position offers abundant opportunities to use your creativity - especially being the first one to use the innovation ingredients and mostly the fresh from-scratch creations.

Reporting to a Principal Flavorist, you will lead selected Science & Technology (S&T) flavor development and technology projects, ensuring the evaluation and optimization of new flavor and taste technologies with global potential. You will provide deployable solutions (ingredients, platforms, tools) that can be used by Commercial Flavor Creation and Application (FC&A) flavorists and supports technological adoption across regions.

We have a high preference for this role to be based in Cincinnati, Ohio. We also have capability for the role to be placed in Kemptthal, Switzerland.

Lead and Influence:
Lead the formulation, testing and optimization of flavor and taste technologies ensuring quality, robustness, and agreement on project goals. Plan and organize the evaluation of new materials (internal and external), assessing performance, stability, regulatory fit and potential for flavor creation and industrialization.

Project Management and Inclusion:
Convert project outcomes into practical solutions that FC&A flavorists and application teams can apply in customer projects. Work with Senior and Principal flavorists to understand technology priorities, customer needs and application constraints, and align S&T project work with tactical goals. Be the contact for complex ingredient and technology related questions within defined categories or projects, leading troubleshooting and optimization to ensure reliable performance.

Discovery Integration:
Integrate digital tools into flavor creation and ingredient discovery processes, ensuring accurate data capture and using analytics to guide formulation decisions and compare options. Collaborate with partners to ensure smooth project execution, regulatory compliance, technology transfer. Participate in regional interactions to roll out technologies, gather feedback and identify gaps. Contribute to preparation and delivery of knowledge-sharing activities (presentations, workshops, webinars, training) and create/capture knowledge using digital tools.

You?

Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology. Higher Education helpful.
6+ years of experience as a flavorist after completing a Flavorist Trainee Program or an equivalent industry program.

Experience working on innovation or R&D-oriented projects, with exposure to multiple segments or regions.

Advanced level of…