Associate Creator - Fruits and Vegetables

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, 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. 

 

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity 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.

 

Natural and healthy product positioning has become an important trend in the food and beverage industry. Consumers are looking for healthier products with cleaner, clearer ingredient lists, but remain on the lookout for new and original taste combinations and colors. With its full pallet of fruit and vegetable powders, herb and spice extracts, natural colors, and plant-based antioxidant solutions, Our Naturex division offers a complete toolbox of natural solutions for unlimited healthy and mouth-watering combinations.

 

Reporting to a Group Leader, you will work amongst the very best in the world to prepare samples needed for customer briefs, applications needs, technology performance assessment, QC standards, physical testing, and you will be a part of how we stay the world leader in our industry!

 

• Technical Expert: Create vegetable and fruit ingredients to meet customer requirements, internal testing needs, or new technology development for multiple ingredient types. Demonstrate tasting skills and ability to understand how to adjust the formulations. Evaluate materials developed internally or from external sources and assess potential use for product creation. Be the technical support advisor to marketing, sales, and customers for ingredient and flavor performance, fruit and vegetable ingredient profiles, and applications.

 

• Team Collaboration: Accomplish daily customer briefs, manage projects, and provide solutions which meet all defined customer needs and which meet good manufacturing practices, sample scale-up, production requirements, regulatory compliance. Participate in customer sessions traveling to customers as warranted. Support team in priorities and goals and mentor seasoning assistants.

 

• Operational Excellence: Maintain the lab environment following EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines. Participate and learn about teams related to completing customer briefs (sensory, consumer understanding, regulatory, flavor delivery, manufacturing). Provide technical support to resolve seasoning production issues.

 

You?

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology with experience in a food applications lab, production, or related area
• 3+ years of experience as an ingredient/flavor/product creator - helpful  (internships count)
• Demonstrate excellent tasting skills and be able to describe the flavor profile of a product.
• Show level of understanding of some ingredients and formulas or other technical processes to learn the science behind formulations.
• Show the skills which are necessary to partner with customers.

 

Benefits include medical, dental, vision plans and a high matching 401k

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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.