About the Role
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. This role focuses on crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends, and fuel market success.
Responsibilities
- Develop and apply savoury product solutions across plant-based meats, sauces, soups, condiments, ready meals, and meat products using IFF’s ingredient and flavour portfolio.
- Leverage new raw materials, emerging technologies, and IFF innovations to drive product development and technical excellence.
- Demonstrate deep expertise in recipe formulation, ingredient functionality, and raw material applications.
- Maintain and continuously improve recipe databases while ensuring knowledge sharing and best practices.
- Guide teams on market-specific taste and texture preferences to ensure consumer-relevant product concepts and submissions.
- Identify flavour and ingredient portfolio gaps and collaborate with cross-functional experts to address business needs.
- Lead technical strategy, category initiatives, and concept generation, integrating IFF technologies and TASTE DESIGN™ innovation.
- Build strong customer partnerships by understanding business strategies, brands, consumer preferences, and market trends, while providing total solution-based support.
- Collaborate effectively with Sales, Marketing, Flavorists, Consumer Research, Regulatory, and R&D teams, applying creativity, innovation, and presentation skills to deliver commercial success.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience in snacks and culinary creation.
- Strong leadership experiences, including mentoring trainees and junior designers.
- Critical thinking.
- Solution oriented mindset with ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Location
- Singapore
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Technology, Food and Nutrition, Chemical Engineering or related disciplines.
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive remuneration package in accordance with the weighting of your role, your seniority and experience.
Benefits
- Structured learning and development programs and opportunities
About the Company
- IFF is a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy.
- At IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart.
- As the global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, we deliver groundbreaking, sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products – advancing wellness, delighting the senses and enhancing the human experience.
Equal Opportunity
- We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status.
- We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
- We value an inclusive, creative workplace where all individuals can thrive and do their best work.
- We consider all qualified candidates equally and based on merit, without regard to religion, ethnicity, national origin, race, age, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or disability.
