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As a Research Chef at Sensient, you will combine hands-on culinary expertise with product development, customer collaboration, and industry insight. You will work closely with culinary, technical, commercial, and marketing teams to create compelling prototypes and solutions for food manufacturers and restaurant customers.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop commercially viable culinary concepts that demonstrate the value of Sensient flavors and technologies across food and beverage applications.\nTranslate emerging culinary and savory food trends into consumer-relevant concepts and high-quality menu and recipe prototypes.\nLead the research kitchen, including inventory management, recipe development, food safety, sanitation, and day-to-day culinary practices.\nPartner with commercial, marketing, application, innovation, flavor, sensory, and technical teams to deliver customer demonstrations, innovation sessions, and tailored solutions.\nCollaborate directly with customer chefs, product developers, and research teams to understand needs and co-create innovative concepts.\nProvide culinary guidance to flavor and application teams to help ensure authentic, trend-aligned flavor delivery in finished prototypes.\nRepresent Sensient at customer meetings, chef associations, industry events, and innovation forums while bringing culinary insights into product and commercial strategy.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nFormal education in culinary arts, food science, or a related field, with professional culinary certification considered a plus.\nSignificant experience in research culinary roles within food manufacturing, savory foods, restaurant menu development, or a related environment.\nHands-on expertise developing high-quality prototypes using commercial ingredients, flavors, and food technologies.\nExperience within consumer packaged goods, business-to-business food manufacturing, quick-service restaurants, or contract manufacturing is preferred.\nExperience with product applications, customer demonstrations, menu development, recipe development, and research kitchen operations.\nStrong communication, collaboration, customer engagement, and commercial awareness skills.\nComfort working in both a hands-on culinary environment and a fast-paced research and development setting.\nWhat You’ll Get\nThe opportunity to influence innovative food and beverage concepts and bring culinary ideas from development to customer application.\nClose collaboration with culinary, technical, commercial, marketing, and research teams.\nA fully onsite work environment that encourages hands-on collaboration with colleagues and access to the research kitchen.\nRegular opportunities to engage directly with customers, including travel to food manufacturers and restaurant customers.\nOpportunities to represent Sensient at industry events, innovation forums, and professional culinary organizations.\nCompetitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.\nA thorough onboarding and training experience designed to support your success in the role.\nAbout Sensient\nSensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. 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