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Senior Flavour Technologist
Date: 14-May-2022
Location: HADDENHAM, GB, HP17 8LB
Company: McCormick & Company
Position: Senior Flavour Technologist
Based: Haddenham, United Kingdom
Position overview
We are looking for a product developer with strong skills in development, matching, ingredient functionality & flavours technology to join our team on a Senior Flavour Technologist position. This person will be working in a customer facing role, establishing a positive working relationship with customers to drive growth.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Actively working on own project briefs. Facilitating, managing and prioritizing the timely and accurate response.
- Assuming a customer facing role in all appropriate customer meetings, presentations, store support, trials and project updates.
- Providing technical support to customers as appropriate, in person and by written and verbal communication to support the customer intimacy strategy.
- Using sound commercial and technical awareness of McCormick ingredients, processes and customer requirements to deliver ‘right first time’ from scale up in the customers’ factory, ensuring a flawless launch in all customer plants.
- Maintaining company standards for administration, Health & Safety, GMP and housekeeping in the work environment.
- Supporting Cost reduction Programs, ensuring appropriate support by R&D teams maintained and initiatives delivered.
- Working on existing lab systems to maintain data and traceability of raw materials and finished products.
- Ownership for briefing to the Sensory Group and reporting results to the customer of any sensory or consumer-based validation tests that relate to projects undertaken.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
- Minimum 8 years of experience developing seasonings for snacks.
- University degree in Food Technology or related field.
- Experience in matching and clean label seasoning design.
- Strong portfolio of wins through EMEA regions.
- Self-motivated, independent individual.
- Very good communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
- Creative, innovative individual.
- Good team player.
- Problem solving approach.