Flavourist

**About Kerry**:

- Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

**About the role**:
The role supports flavour sales growth, flavour creation, flavour production and flavour library by working efficiently to support customer briefs while maintaining a vision of what will work best for customers.
Extend capabilities by collaborating with other flavourists to support initiatives and projects.
Develop flavours and interact with customers, other flavourists, sensory scientists, production, and suppliers to ensure that goals are met and that briefs are completed in a timely manner.
Have significant experience in his/her area of expertise and continue to share knowledge in flavour development.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Responsible for flavour creation projects within the region
- Independently lead projects, developing flavours in line with business needs and in response to customer briefs
- Proactively work with new ingredients
- Understand Kerry technologies and utilize technology to deliver unique solutions to project brief
- Deliver technical presentations and working sessions with customers
- Interact with key customers regionally to understand requirements and build solid relationships
- Mentoring and training the junior flavour creation team
- Perform physical, chemical, and organoleptic testing and analysis of flavours
- Have adequate understanding of GC/MS and other industry techniques applied for flavour analyses.
- Work with analytical group on flavour matching projects
- Employ thorough knowledge of relevant regulatory and labelling requirements for flavours
- Work with cross functional teams to optimize the strengths of our company and deliver the best Taste and Nutrition experience for our customers
- Participate in sensory panels

**Qualifications and skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Life Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or relevant industry experience
- 5+ years of active flavour work on the bench
- Good math skills for problem-solving calculations.
- Strong trouble-shooting skills
- Strong and discerning sense of smell and taste
- Demonstrates passion for flavour creations
- Demonstrates strong ability for problem-solving and complaint resolution
- Demonstrates strong ability to work with cross-functional teams at multi levels within the organization.
- Demonstrates professionalism
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change.
- Has no limitations to tasting a variety of materials