You lead a team dedicated to creating innovative flavors, collaborating with various departments, and supporting sales efforts through consulting and training. You ensure that projects align with customer needs and market trends.
Anforderungen
- •Bachelor's degree in Food Technology
- •Master's degree in Food Science
- •Experience in managing a team
- •Years of experience in the Flavor industry
- •Current job title Flavorist
- •Current job title Senior Flavorist
- •Experience with Top-note- & Powder Blended Flavors
- •Willingness to travel abroad up to 10%
- •Knowledge of Sweet Applications
- •Good knowledge of spoken and written English
- •Good knowledge of spoken and written German is an advantage
- •Ability to work autonomously and in a team
Deine Aufgaben
- •Lead the Creation Sweet team for EMEA.
- •Organize team activities and project delivery.
- •Develop new flavors based on customer needs.
- •Match competitor flavors and create new blends.
- •Optimize existing flavors for special applications.
- •Utilize analytical and sensory data for flavor development.
- •Evaluate new raw materials for flavor creation.
- •Collaborate with Application Teams on flavor development.
- •Support Sales team with consulting and training.
Deine Vorteile
Continuous development
30 days vacation
Flexible working hours
Accident insurance
Capital-forming payments
Job bike
Original Beschreibung
Group Manager (m/f/d) Creation Sweet - Fulltime (37,5 hrs. / week) at Takasago Europe GmbH
* Leading the team Creation Sweet (Beverages, Dairy, Confectionary, Bakery, Oral Care) for the EMEA region, reporting to the Director Sweet (Creation & Application)
* Organizing the team Creation Sweet (Flavorists and Lab Assistants) and ensuring the delivery of agreed projects in close collaboration with relevant teams (Application, Analytics, Sensory, etc.)
* Development of new Flavors based on customer projects, pro-active projects and personal creativity
* The work generally involves matching of competitor Flavors and development of Top-note-, Powder Blended- and Spray dried Flavors
* Optimization and modification of existing Flavors for special applications and/or for harmonization/rationalization purposes
* Professionally use analytical and/or sensory data for development of Flavors
* Evaluation of new raw materials
* Cooperate with Application Teams for evaluation & development of Flavors & Applications
* Support our Sales team & customers with relevant consulting, visits, trainings and workshops
* We prefer a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Food Technology, Food Science or Chemistry
* Experience in managing a team
* Years of experience in the Flavor industry
* Current job title Flavorist or Senior Flavorist
* Experience with development of Top-note- & Powder Blended Flavors
* Willingness to travel abroad (EMEA region) up to 10% of working time
* Knowledge of Sweet Applications (Beverages, Dairy, Confectionary, Bakery, Oral Care)
* Good knowledge of spoken and written English language - Good knowledge of spoken and written German language is an advantage
* You are able to work autonomously but also in a team and a multi-cultural environment
* Continuous development
* 30 days of vacation per year
* Flexible working hours
* Accident insurance
* Capital-forming payments
* Job bike
We welcome applications from people who are as diverse as we are - for example, regardless of age, disability, ethnic origin and nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation or social background.