Senior Application Technologist - Beverages
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The Taste & Wellbeing Creation and Application (T&WCA) organisation within Givaudan is at the forefront to discover and develop new innovative ingredients and flavours for all kinds of food applications focussing on the Beverages, Sweet Goods & Dairy, Snacks, Bakery, Savoury, Natural, and other exciting categories. We are a truly global organisation consisting of multidisciplinary experts from science, creation, application, and sensory science.
Application Technologist's in Givaudan are specialists whose primary goal is to support Customers by providing them with suitable flavours for their applications and guiding Flavourist's in the flavour development process. To do so, Application Technologists analyse current flavour trends, forecast future trends, and assess consumer preferences and apply flavours to end applications.
Due to an internal move, we are now looking to hire a 'Senior Application Technologist' to focus on the Beverages category for the Middle East region, which includes key markets in the GCC, Iran, Afganistan and Pakistan. Reporting to the Taste & Wellbeing Technical Manager for the Middle East and based in our regional office in Dubai, you will be a key player in our T&WCA team.
You will mainly be responsible for evaluating and applying flavours in food applications for Beverage applications, including carbonated drinks, juice drinks, still drinks, and selecting the optimal flavours for Customer projects in the Middle East. You will contribute to our business growth by continuously demonstrating to our Customers in the Middle East the use and benefits of our flavours in Beverage application.
You will proactively and reactively work on internal and Customer briefs and develop proactive ideas to help our Customers bring consumer preferred and differentiating products to the market.
- Responsible for all technical communications with Customers in the Middle East for Beverage applications to contribute to winning briefs and successful delivery of projects.
- Develop concept presentations and present flavours and flavoured drink products to Customers
- Work with our Customers to optimise their recipes.
- Support our customers in trial productions of new recipes or implementing solutions from Givaudan.
- Do customer visits, presenting ready-to-consume products or supporting customer trials.
- Apply and evaluate flavours for Beverages for relevant briefs.
- Proactively monitor flavour performance and stability
- Select optimal flavours for projects according to all relevant requirements (taste profile, legislation, technical suitability, costs, etc.).
- Prepare state-of-the-art flavoured products and samples for Customer presentations and capability demonstrations
- Identify appropriate flavour delivery systems and technologies.
- Translate market trends into new product concepts and developments.
- Support in developing and implementing new Beverage technologies by working with the broader teams and Innovation Centres within the region and the wider…
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