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The ideal candidate will create, develop, and optimize flavor profiles for products across categories such as Dairy, Sweets, and Beverages. This role blends scientific expertise with creative innovation, requiring deep knowledge of flavor chemistry, sensory science, and regulatory compliance.\nFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.\nTaste: Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success.\nThe Senior Flavorist role is based in South Brunswick, NJ. Join a creative, customer-focused and collaborative Creative & Design team where you will develop consumer-preferred flavors for the food and beverage industry. In this role, you will combine scientific expertise with creative innovation to develop and optimize flavor profiles across beverage, sweet goods and dairy applications.\nWhere You’ll Make a Difference\nDesign and formulate innovative, market-leading flavors for food and beverage applications, including compounded liquids, spray-dried powders, plated flavors, reaction flavors, emulsions and extracts, using Generally Recognized as Safe and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved materials.\n\nCreate, develop and optimize consumer-preferred flavor profiles across beverage, sweet goods and dairy applications.\n\nLead creative development projects from concept through launch, building customer intimacy while ensuring timelines, specifications and quality standards are achieved.\n\nApply analytical data, sensory science and technical expertise to develop, characterize and match flavor materials.\n\nDevelop flavors that meet U.S. and international flavor regulations, including specific regulatory requirements for alcoholic beverages.\n\nCollaborate with Applications, Research & Development, Marketing, Sales and Operations teams to support seamless project execution, commercialization and successful scale-up.\n\nPartner with account managers to understand customer needs, provide technical support and develop practical solutions to complex flavor challenges.\n\nMentor and train junior colleagues by sharing technical knowledge, creative approaches and industry expertise.\n\nCollaborate with global innovation teams to leverage new technologies, support strategic priorities and identify opportunities for flavor development.\n\nWhat Makes You the Right Fit\nBachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry or a related scientific discipline.\n\n10+ years of progressive, hands-on flavor creation and development experience, with demonstrated expertise across sweet, dairy and beverage categories.\n\nFully certified flavor chemist credentials, such as certification from the Society of Flavor Chemists, or an equivalent recognized qualification.\n\nStrong scientific knowledge of food science, chemistry, aroma molecules, natural extracts and flavor manufacturing processes.\n\nDemonstrated ability to identify, characterize, formulate and match flavor materials using analytical and sensory evaluation techniques.\n\nWorking knowledge of U.S. and international flavor regulations and experience formulating with approved flavor materials.\n\nAbility to manage multiple customer and internal development projects while maintaining quality, accuracy and agreed-upon timelines.\n\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly to internal colleagues and external customers.\n\nFoundational leadership capabilities with experience mentoring, guiding or developing junior flavor professionals.\n\nHow Would You Stand Out?\nAn advanced degree, such as a master’s degree or doctorate, in Food Science, Chemistry or a related field.\n\nExperience developing clean label and natural flavors while navigating the related technical and regulatory requirements.\n\nA strong record of combining consumer insights, sensory science and emerging technologies to deliver differentiated flavor solutions.\n\nWhy Choose Us?\nCreate flavors that help shape the identity and market success of food and beverage brands.\n\nWork across a diverse portfolio of beverage, sweet goods and dairy applications.\n\nCollaborate with experienced colleagues across Creative & Design, Applications, Research & Development, Marketing, Sales and Operations.\n\nAccess global innovation capabilities and emerging flavor technologies.\n\nDevelop your leadership capabilities through the mentorship and development of junior colleagues.\n\nContribute your scientific expertise and creativity to solutions designed around evolving consumer preferences.\n\nCompensation ($153,349.00 to $219,070.00 base) is based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and location. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, 401k, vacation, holidays, paid parental leave (maternity and paternity), and an annual bonus plan, among other employee perks.\nWe are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. 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