Senior Flavorist

Are you passionate about creating innovative flavors that transform everyday food and beverage products into extraordinary consumer experiences? We are searching for a Senior Flavorist to join our Creative & Design team in South Brunswick, NJ, where you will work to create consumer-preferred flavors for the food and beverage industry. This role blends scientific expertise with creative innovation, requiring deep knowledge of flavor chemistry, sensory science, and regulatory compliance.

About the Role

Join a creative, customer-focused, and collaborative team where you will develop consumer-preferred flavors for the food and beverage industry. In this role, you will combine scientific expertise with creative innovation to develop and optimize flavor profiles across beverage, sweet goods, and dairy applications. The position is based in South Brunswick, NJ.

Responsibilities

• Design and formulate innovative, market-leading flavors for food and beverage applications, including compounded liquids, spray-dried powders, plated flavors, reaction flavors, emulsions, and extracts, using Generally Recognized as Safe and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved materials.
• Create, develop, and optimize consumer-preferred flavor profiles across beverage, sweet goods, and dairy applications.
• Lead creative development projects from concept through launch, building customer intimacy while ensuring timelines, specifications, and quality standards are achieved.
• Apply analytical data, sensory science, and technical expertise to develop, characterize, and match flavor materials.
• Develop flavors that meet U.S. and international flavor regulations, including specific regulatory requirements for alcoholic beverages.
• Collaborate with Applications, Research & Development, Marketing, Sales, and Operations teams to support seamless project execution, commercialization, and successful scale-up.
• Partner with account managers to understand customer needs, provide technical support, and develop practical solutions to complex flavor challenges.
• Mentor and train junior colleagues by sharing technical knowledge, creative approaches, and industry expertise.
• Collaborate with global innovation teams to leverage new technologies, support strategic priorities, and identify opportunities for flavor development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive, hands-on flavor creation and development experience, with demonstrated expertise across sweet, dairy, and beverage categories.
• Fully certified flavor chemist credentials, such as certification from the Society of Flavor Chemists, or an equivalent recognized qualification.
• Strong scientific knowledge of food science, chemistry, aroma molecules, natural extracts, and flavor manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, characterize, formulate, and match flavor materials using analytical and sensory evaluation techniques.
• Working knowledge of U.S. and international flavor regulations and experience formulating with approved flavor materials.
• Ability to manage multiple customer and internal development projects while maintaining quality, accuracy, and agreed-upon timelines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly to internal colleagues and external customers.
• Foundational leadership capabilities with experience mentoring, guiding, or developing junior flavor professionals.

Preferred Qualifications

• An advanced degree, such as a master’s degree or doctorate, in Food Science, Chemistry, or a related field.
• Experience developing clean label and natural flavors while navigating the related technical and regulatory requirements.
• A strong record of combining consumer insights, sensory science, and emerging technologies to deliver differentiated flavor solutions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave (maternity and paternity).
• Annual bonus plan.
• Additional employee perks.

Pay

$153,349.00 to $219,070.00 base salary, based on work experience, skills, certifications, and location.