It's an exciting time to be part of IFF! We are looking for our next Senior Food Technologist- Snack Innovation Lead to become part of our industry-leading team. Are you passionate about flavor innovation and do you have the desire to collaborate with a global team? As a Se Food Technologis, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the some of the most exciting projects in the flavor industry today. Working in a collaborative team environment, IFF will be looking for you to drive innovation and creativity to assist our customers in enhancing existing product lines and in launching new cutting-edge product initiatives.**About You**:In this role you will serve as a lead technical contact for understanding and facilitating technical execution at the customer and global basis, liaise with IFF Global and Regional Commercial Managers, IFF Global and Regional Technical Leads, IFF Innovation Program Directors and Global Technology Leads at key accounts.**Job Requirements**:**As Food Technologist, your responsibilities are**- Act as a partner to the Global Executive Directors key account and other customers and be the Global Technical Lead to support the aspirational growth of key accounts ,- Develop, implement and execute technical programs in alignment with the account's strategy to research and provide the tools to grow IFF share.- Cement a long-term viable business relationship in order to achieve IFF's corporate vision for global snack accounts.- Build technical to technical relationships with key decision makers to navigate the customer technical culture.- Liaise, partner and collaborate with key Global Accounts, Applied Research teams.- Provide feedback and guidance to Innovation Program Director's and R&D to expedite deployment and availability of tools and solutions.- Work with the Global Technical Lead to deliver innovation, productivity and technologies to the IFF creative team and customer.- Educate the IFF Value Added Seasonings (VAS) community to facilitate growth within this category.**Required Skills**:- Able to establish and guide cross functional teams focusing on product, project or innovation development- In concert with GTL, centralize project coordination and ownership- Knowledgeable with commercialization/scale up of seasonings and flavor systems**Required Experience**- Minimum 10 years' working experience in industrial food pharmaceutical ingredient or flavor industry and 5 in the specific field of expertise i.e. snack, in dough extrusion- Academic Qualification / Background Essential: Minimum entry level a BS degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry or related disciplines
