Flavorist, Health and Beverage (109917)
Flavorist, Health and Beverage (109917)
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McCormick & Company Inc. a global leader in the spice flavor and seasonings industry is seeking a fulltime Flavorist. This new hire will work at our McFONA Flavor Lab located inGeneva Il. TheFlavoristwill report to aSr. Principal Scientist Flavor Design and Applications.
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.
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 Health & Beverage 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:
- Leading flavor creation in a variety of products and providing excellent 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.
- Close collaboration with the McFONA analytical teams.
- Provide support as an internal expert on projects performed in other groups within McCormick with outside consultants and / or with vendors.
- Commercialization of flavors (understanding of processes and operations for product manufacture) and troubleshooting problems.
- Offer Technical Support for formulations to Operation and Quality functions.
- 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
- Minimum 10 years of active flavor creation work
- Recognized as a technical flavor expert. Gains recognition of expertise areas by peers and/or customers.
- Proven track record of commercial success in flavor and flavor application development.
- Indepth understanding of ingredients and technology involved with flavor formation application and stability.
- Expert in raw materials manufacturing processes quality assurance programs and food regulations.
- Maintains up to date awareness of literature influencing project direction and proposing new technology areas to pursue within field
- Ability to make presentations that cover technical topics R&D capabilities etc.
- Ability to manage risk in making critical decisions
- Ability to interpret data and solve complex problems with incomplete information.
- Supports & embraces change while continuing to improve technical & interpersonal skills
- Shows awareness of opportunities for improving processes in area(s) of expertise and brings suggestions to appropriate teams. Generates & implements ideas to improve / optimize experimental routes.
- Demonstrates a high level of scientific and practical ability to apply experimental design & application of scientific method
- Project management and ability to interact seek advice teach influence and negotiate. Manages projects within budget.
- 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.
- Knowledge of food industry food ingredients manufacturing processes quality assurance programs and food regulations
- Effectively works well in a team and matrix environment and has excellent communication skills.
- Has excellent ability in taste discrimination and flavor descriptor vocabulary.
- Intellectual curiosity flexibility demonstrated aptitude for complexity and managing in a complex environment an innovative imagination and the ability to operate in grey space.
- May need to travel up to 25% of the time to customers
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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 religion national origin disability protected veteran 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.
Base Salary: $72930 to $127640
Base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location skills education experience for this role and/or internal equity of our current employees as part of any final offer. This position is also eligible to participate in McCormicks Incentive Bonus (MIB) Plan. In addition to a competitive compensation package permanent employees of McCormick are eligible for our extensive Total Rewards programs that include:
Comprehensive health plans covering medical vision dental life and disability benefits Familyfriendly benefits such as paid parental leave fertility benefits Employee Assistance Program and caregiver support
Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profitsharing plans
Employment Type
Full-Time
