Senior Research Chef & Food Scientist

About the Role

The Senior Research Chef & Food Scientist role at IFF leads the development of flavor and food-system solutions in an industrial environment. Based in South Brunswick, NJ, you will work at the intersection of creativity and science to deliver customer-focused products that define brands and drive market success. What You'll Do

• High level of knowledge of recipe ingredients and raw materials and their function

• Independently navigates both customer and internal projects from start to finish and acts as a project leader

• Develops and improves application formulations and finished product formulations using knowledge of industrial standards, creativity, country specific and client requirements

• Researches, refines and upgrades solutions for customer projects

• Maintains and continuously renovates application-specific recipe database

• Maximizes flavor and ingredients performance through recipe design

• Provides flavors, food systems and ingredients driven solutions utilizing creative problem-solving skills

• Reviews, renews and renovates flavor repositories in-line with established metrics

• Identifies flavor repositories gaps and actions and addresses with appropriate expertise or resource

• Continues to build flavor attribute and language knowledge and articulate with others in the team and on projects

• Uses Creativity and Innovation skills for customer, industry and investor presentations

• Able and willing to mentor others in the organization, including Food Designers and Research Chefs What We're Looking For

• B.S. or higher in Food Science or a related discipline (e.g., Chemistry, Culinary Science, Human Nutrition)

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the industrial food or preferred flavor industry

• Experience as a Research Chef with developing products in an industrial food environment

• However, we are equally interested in executive/head chefs with strong culinary expertise who have gained food science, product development, or R&D experience in Food Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturing

• The ideal candidate combines deep culinary expertise with a strong foundation in food science, product development, or R&D