The role, requires creativity, in addition to an above-average sense of taste and smell. He / She to have a good memory for scents. Ability to combine essential oils, plant extracts and aroma chemicals to create both artificial and natural flavours. To also possess leadership experience in managing successful teams in high-performance environments.
Have the knowledge to conduct tests at the same time know / set up the processes of systematic testing in a laboratory environment on how flavours perform in various products. Engineer flavours that will end up in a variety of products.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Motivation, patience, and a willingness to experiment are also important. The Sr. Flavorist Manager must have the ability to create/modify flavors
- Provide timely responsiveness to ongoing testing enquiries and processes
- Certified Flavorist with the ability to create aspiring flavors or the relevant experience
- Manage, keep track of all test results, comments and ensure that they are recorded without any errors
- Ensure proper data management is maintained in the database of the creations, ingredients, and supplies
- Assist to resolve related issues where necessary
- Provide knowledge support for product pricing, product costing etc.
- Attend to all matters pertaining to lab processes, testing procedures and results
- Coach, mentor, and guide junior and senior/flavorists on their assigned tasks and ensure adherence to standards and protocols where necessary
- Manage function/team cross functionally
- Shares and drives adoption of best practices flavor sales across all regions.
- Coordinates global counterparts for core and global customers
- Collaborates with Marketing to develop go to market approach, sales-support materials and tools to drive customer engagement.
- Develop commercial proposals for regional and global flavor
- Provides leadership and mobilizes efforts across functions (R&D, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain) to optimize opportunities, improve cross functional execution
- Any other ad-hoc tasks by Senior Management (representative/owner of business unit)
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Bachelor&aposs/Undergraduate Degree/Diploma in any science discipline, food engineering, food science, chemistry, or biology with at least 8 years relevant working experience as a hands-on Flavourist / Manager in any flavour or related industry (preferably tobacco industry)
- At least 4 years of working experience in a managerial capacity leading a team of flavourists
- Highly responsible and reliable with exceptional attention to details.
- Experience in working within tight deadlines independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Able to maintain confidentiality for all work-related matters.
- Creativity and scientific proficiency with a sensitive and distinctive palette.
- Good level of liaison skills and ability to meet deadlines and targets.
- Good team-work skills actively involve colleagues across the business, builds the benefits of collaborative working.
- High sense of proactivity.
- Innovative thinker, ability to provides speedy solutions and hands on.
