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Senior Flavors Innovation Scientist
Who are we? Customer-focused experts. Entrepreneurial thinkers. Creative collaborators. Headquartered in the United States, Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Our Research and Development teams shape the future by developing and applying specialized systems, ingredients, and proprietary technologies that bring to life our customers’ food, personal care, and pharmaceutical products.
Who are you? A big thinker who knows how to get results. Every day in Research and Development will bring a new opportunity to put your curiosity and knowledge to use.
Join our Innovation team, and you will use your scientific and technological investigation skills to develop state-of-the-art ingredients and revolutionary formulations and technologies. You will be part of a global network of Sensient scientists who make original contributions to new product developments around the world.
Join our Applications Team, and you will partner with our customers in our labs and at their facilities to achieve their vision, solve their challenges, and bring innovative products to market. You will work face to face with customers large and small, from multinationals with the world’s best-known brands, to cutting-edge startups.
Whether in Innovation or Applications, you will grow personally and professionally while doing exciting international work as part of our winning culture.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Job Level: Entry, Mid, Senior
- Travel : Depends on Role
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success profile
We are looking for Applications and Innovation team members who are:
- Results-focused
- Collaborative
- Skilled communicators
- Analytically rigorous
- Detail-oriented
- Intensely curious
Your journey
career path
- Lab Technician
- Application Scientist (multiple levels)
- Technical Service Manager (multiple levels)
- Technical Director
- Senior Technical Director or
- Innovation Intern
- Innovation Associate (multiple levels)
- Innovation Scientist (multiple levels)
- Innovations Manager
cultural points
The Sensient Six are the core values that drive us in our mission.
- Entrepreneurial
- Customer focused
- Develop self and others
- Collaborative
- Results driven
- Know your job
My job gives me the unique opportunity to develop products that I feel passionate about. Being part of an international team, with access to so much know-how and the most innovative technologies, encourages me every day to do my best and to drive innovation.
Senior Flavors Innovation Scientist
At Sensient Technologies, we are experts in the science, art and innovation of color and flavor. We are market savvy and visionary. We are problem solvers. And we will be better with you.
In this role as a Senior Innovation Scientist, you will develop innovative products and support new business growth opportunities to showcase our capabilities. You will provide leadership in driving flavor and taste modulation technologies for our flavors business. You will be required to effectively develop and communicate features & benefits of new technologies. Your responsibilities will include delivering presentations to internal management and to customers.
What you will do:
- Manage application work for food and beverage in proof of concept testing of flavor and taste technologies.
- Manage the Stage Gate process for Innovation projects.
- Design and create products using new or existing ingredients, flavors & colors to develop or demonstrate new technology features.
- Effectively communicate project statuses to Innovation Manager.
- Manage and mentor junior scientists.
- Effectively train and communicate technologies to Regional Applications Teams.
- Identify and test new technologies/ingredients to provide innovative solutions addressing industry issues.
- Maintain accurate records of work. Organize projects and prepare reports including: project objectives, project progress, technical formulations, and product data sheets.
- Demonstrate leadership integrating creative and technical expertise in a team environment. Lead cross-functional project activities with a sense of urgency. Provide ongoing communication to global team members.
- Utilize Flavorist and sensory group expertise to provide flavor systems that meet or exceed project objectives.
- Assist in maintaining a safe and professional environment.
- Utilize computer systems to ensure project and product application data is maintained in a timely and accurate fashion. Utilize computer system’s capabilities for selection and screening flavor/flavor enhancement systems.
What you will bring:
- 7-10+ years of product development/innovation experience
- A demonstrated understanding of flavors and ingredients with key technical area expertise.
- Master’s/PhD in Food Science (or closely related discipline).
- Experience with food science and technology, flavor and food ingredient technologies.
- Work well in a team environment. Actively contribute ideas while exhibiting subject matter expertise.
- Self-drive, organizational and motivation strengths. Come armed with initiative and open thinking.
- Ability to focus on multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.
- Internal and external collaborative mindset. Experience working cross functionally for results.
- Be a Self-Starter with minimal supervision. balancing and managing projects with a multi-task workload.
- Innovation mindset. Creative problem solving and exceptional communication skills.
- Knowledge of pertinent processes, regulatory guidelines and sensory testing.
What you’ll get:
- Opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, onsite 5 days per week
- An excellent salary, benefit offering and development opportunities
- A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond
About Sensient Technologies:
Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.
About Sensient Flavors:
Sensient Flavors offers innovative, global taste solutions and specialized flavor delivery systems that help bring life to your food and beverage products. Our leading-edge technologies reflect our core philosophies to be dynamic and innovative and to add value to your applications.
SPONSORSHP: Due to our inability to offer visa sponsorship, we can only consider candidates who are authorized to work in (country) without the need for employment visa sponsorship
Sensient is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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