We maintain our leadership position by challenging ourselves daily, inspiring our partnerships across the globe and serving our customers with heart and soul.
With our two business activities, Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, we provide customers with a broad range of solutions that match consumer demands for clean label, organic and natural ingredients in addition to being their creative partner of choice. Our value proposition reflects the Company’s purpose of creating for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature.
Touching people’s lives ten times per day
Together with our customers we deliver food experiences, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. From your favourite drink to your daily meal, from prestige perfumes to laundry care, our products help people live happier and healthier lives and we create them in a way that respects natural resources and the environment.
Committed to innovation and sustainable growth
With our heritage stretching back over 250 years, we have a long history of creating and innovating scents and tastes. Our creations inspire every day emotions and delight millions of consumers the world over.
We are at the forefront of innovation, with 10% of annual turnover invested in research, exploring and uncovering new and exciting ingredients and technologies to add to our vast palettes and portfolios.
Co-creation and collaboration with customers and partners enable us to innovate and develop game-changing products and solutions. We have a global co-innovation network of accelerators and incubators enabling us to leverage the entrepreneurial and innovative ideas that start-ups have to offer. In addition, we partner with many of the prominent players in the industry to expand and augment innovative thinking, and accelerate the pace and quality of ideation with key suppliers.
We are committed to driving purpose-led, long-term growth with the intention of increasing our positive impact on the world by innovating sustainable solutions while showing our love for nature and leading the way to improve happiness and health for people.
A global industry leader creating gamechanging innovations in food and beverage as well as inspiring creations in the world of scent and beauty, Givaudan operates in the expanded market space of flavour & taste, functional & nutrition ingredients, fragrance & beauty, worth CHF 42 billion. Our main competitors are Symrise, DSM-Firmenich and IFF.
Working in the business to business market, we offer our products to global, regional and local food, beverage, consumer goods, fragrance and cosmetics companies. 50% of our sales go to multinational customers and 50% to local and regional customers. In 2022, 37% of sales were in Europe, Africa, Middle East, 26% of sales were in North America, Asia Pacific had 25% of sales and 12% in Latin America. 56% of our revenues come from mature markets, and 44% from high growth markets.
Flavourist II / Senior Flavourist – Sweet Goods and Beverage
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Job Purpose
You will lead complex flavour development projects and innovations in the Sweet Goods and additionally to the Beverage segment.
Reporting line and locationYou will report to our Regional Technical Head. We ask that you be 100% office presence in Mumbai, India.
Main areas of responsibilities
Creation: Based on customer requests and market insights, you will create new flavours using the latest flavour technologies, ingredient innovations, market and consumer and sensory insights, and a unique pallet of raw materials.
· Prepare flavour samples, technology performance assessment, and physical testing;
· Create new flavours or modify existing ones for projects, internal testing needs, or new technology development;
· Coordinate the evaluation of materials developed internally or from external sources and assess the potential for flavour creation
Collaboration: Within your creation mandate, you will work in close collaboration with the regional Marketing, Application, Commercial, Consumer research & Sensory Insights teams to apply new tools and inputs for new flavour creations for Sweet Goods and Beverage applications.
· Maintain relationships with a broad range of internal & external partners to gain their trust and respect.
· Complete daily brief-related tasks and manage assigned projects and provide flavours that meet all the defined customer needs, manufacturing practices, sample scale-up, production requirements, and regulatory compliance.
· Lead occasional customer visits for flavour creation and product presentations.
· Resolve flavour production issues and customer complaints.
Leadership and being a role model: Create, collaborate and lead by example!
· Provide technical leadership in projects
· Oversee flavour assistants and guide their development
· Proactively takes responsibility to build a diverse and inclusive environment and uses differences in styles, thinking and approaches
· Be a role model in knowledge-sharing
Your desired skills
· 15+ years of relevant experience as a Flavourist
· Expert palate and tasting skills, to understand how to adjust and modify a flavour formulation
· Knowledge of raw materials, flavour ingredients, analytical methodologies (G.C. HPLC, Mass Spec.) and regulatory requirements
· Has flavour creation experience in preferably both Sweet Goods and Beverage segments
· Quick to understand company-specific flavour creation solvent and carrier systems
· Complete Givaudan’s or any industry equivalent Flavourist Training program is a plus.
· Strong project management and presentation skills.
· Customer focus – as being an interface with internal and external partners and customers about flavour creation needs
· Always find a solution – serve as the technical expert to resolve flavour production issues and customer complaints
· Excellent proficiency in English.
Academic background
Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Chemistry & Biology, or Master’s Degree
Our benefits
· Attractive package with benefits, including bonus and medical package: insurance cover, personal accident cover, and term life coverage
· Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
· A creative team environment that will inspire you.
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.
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