Lead Flavorist (Global) - Brown & White Tonality Cluster

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Stellenbeschreibung

Your Key Responsibilities

• Driving Innovation and Excellence
• Create tailored taste solutions for innovation and customer projects utilizing established raw materials and novel, cutting-edge ingredients.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and develop new Brown & White ingredients, while effectively applying your expertise across all tonalities when required.
• Conduct performance evaluations for flavor components and compositions to ensure maximum impact in various applications.
• Expertise Development and Knowledge Generation
• Explore and document interactions between chemical and sensory properties to optimize flavor composition.
• Lead efforts to manage and refine the global portfolio of raw materials, ensuring access to high-performance ingredients from both internal and external development partners.
• Business Leadership and Growth
• Oversee key customer projects, guiding regional Flavorist teams to achieve high success rates through innovative and impactful flavor solutions.
• Strengthen customer relationships by providing technical support, tailored product presentations, and strategic advisory to product management teams and sales organizations.
• Global Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
• Work closely with colleagues across disciplines (including application teams, analytical labs, sensory, and consumer science experts) to design application-specific solutions. " Co-manage the Brown & White Platform with Product Managers, ensuring agile global communication and expertise exchange.
• Fostering Expertise Through Training
• Champion the professional development of the flavorist community in Brown & White tonalities by delivering masterclasses and training sessions aligned with the Taste Academy framework.
• Leadership at the Interface of Science, Application, and Creativity
• Serve as a functional leader within the organization, representing the companys values and vision with a customer-focused and consumer-driven approach.

• Extensive experience as a senior flavorist, with a mastery of chemistry and technology and exceptional sensory skills.
• A strong entrepreneurial mindset and passion for creating innovative, sustainable taste solutions.
• Proven experience with flavor creation across all tonalities, with a specific focus on the Brown & White category.
• Comprehensive expertise in Brown & White-related ingredients, with a major emphasis on thermal reaction flavors, enzymatically modified ingredients, and cocoa, coffee, and vanilla extracts.
• In-depth knowledge of food chemistry, flavor regulations, and food science.
• Willingness to relocate to Darmstadt, Germany (Frankfurt area), to be at the heart of innovation and global collaboration.
• A university degree in food chemistry, food technology, or equivalent field.
• An innovative, structured, and results-oriented work style, with a high level of initiative.
• Professional proficiency in English, alongside robust communication and project management skills. Your Benefits

• Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
• Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
• Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
• Anniversary and special payments
• Employee referral bonuses
• Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)