Beverage Flavorist - Geneva IL 102680

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs spices seasonings and condiments and were only getting started. At McCormick were always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees all 14000 of us across the world are what makes this company a great place to work.

McCormick & Company Incorporatedis a global leader in specialty flavor. With over$6 billionin annual sales across 170 countries and territories we manufacture market and distribute spices seasoning mixes condiments and specialty flavor products to the entire food industry including ecommerce channels grocery food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands with trademark registrations include McCormick Frenchs Franks RedHot Stubbs OLD BAY Lawrys Zatarains Ducros Vahin Cholula Schwartz Kamis DaQiao Club House Aeroplane andGourmet Garden. Every day no matter where or what you eat or drink you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick.

We are looking to hire a Beverage Flavorist at our McFONA labs in Geneva IL.

What We Bring to The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits youd expect from a global leader 401k health insurance paid time off etc. we also offer:

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

We prioritize our communities and the planet we share. We are proud to be awarded as a Diversity Inc. Top 50 company for Diversity and have multiple Sustainability awards (ranking #22 in the World and #1 in Food Products)

Wellbeing programs including Physical Mental and Financial wellness

Tuition assistance

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This role will work in the Beverage and/or Functional Nutrition Business Unit. The Flavorist willindependently create and evaluate flavors for a variety of applications with the use of proprietary technologies. This role will interface with customers multiple R&D teams responding to specific project requests. Additionally the Flavorist promotes the commercialization of flavors with QA/production and supports on any challenges in the flavor manufacturing plant.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Creation of flavors for products providing great tasting and cost optimized flavors for Industrial Customers.
• Selfdirecting on complex projects including planning and leading cross functional project teams defining and assessing project requirements and designing and managing experiments.
• Commercialization of flavors (understanding of processes and operations for product manufacture) and troubleshooting problems.
• Interface and communicate project status with customers and commercial team.
• Supervise and instruct lowerlevel employees.
• Proactively evaluateand assess new ingredients and technologies and work to develop areas that may need improvement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS inFood Science/Technology Food Engineering Chemistry or a related field.
• Certified member of the Society of Flavor Chemist.
• At least 10 years of total experience in the field of flavor development preferably beverages.
• Indepth understanding of ingredients and technology involved with flavor formation application and stability.
• Knowledgeable in raw materials manufacturing processes quality assurance programs and food regulations.
• An in depth understanding of ingredients and technology along with their impact on product taste and functionality.
• Skilled in catalog of flavor raw materials and functionality processing methods
• Experienced in commercialization of flavors in production QA release and trouble shooting.
• Has excellent ability in taste discrimination and flavor descriptor vocabulary.
• Ability for 1015 travel

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religionnational origin disability protectedveteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.