Responsibilities and Duties
- Manage and lead flavor creation initiatives to meet customers and internal project requirements
- Ability to identify potential risks, gaps etc. and develop creative solutions to address technical flavor issues.
- Proactively evaluate new raw materials and assess potential for future use in creating new flavors, partner with Operations business unit to solve potential manufacturing issues.
- Serve as a Technical expert in flavor creation techniques and provide meaningful input into category initiatives.
- Collaborate with internal and external customers to provide insightful partnership and leverage trusting relationships.
- Detailed knowledge of global R&D scope, projects, timelines, and deliverables scheduling
- Strong understanding of global capabilities, effective global network
- Defines gaps in portfolio and technologies to meet consumer needs
- Active involvement with R&D on regular basis for strategic initiatives
- Leads creative input on major regional and global projects
- Directs technology development and implementation in regional projects
- Manage and resolve key technical challenges with most appropriate resource
- Represents the business unit in senior projects to regional customer
- Strengthen ingredient and process knowledge, internally and externally.
- Understand competition capabilities, defines products gaps to category
- Ability to develops / propose customized training programs for Trainees, Juniors and Flavorists
- Any other ad-hoc tasks by Senior Management (representative/owner of business unit)
Requirements
· Bachelor's/Undergraduate Degree/Diploma in any science discipline, food engineering, food science, chemical engineering with at least 7 years relevant working experience as a hands-on Sensory Scientist / Panel Manager in the tobacco industry or related
· With a proven track record in leading Flavor projects, categories, you possess strong Flavor creation, innovation, and development technical know-how in a B2B or B2C environment. Ideally you should have strong interest in evaluating new raw materials and assessing potential for future use in creating new flavors and also experience in working in a team-oriented environment collaborating with cross-functional teams locally/regionally.
· You are the technical expert to identify potential risks and develop creative solutions to address technical flavor issues.
· You are good in building strong customer relations and capable in leading sizeable technical projects that are either proactive or go to market (G2M). You possess flavor creation techniques with strong familiarity in tobacco/savory products market trends.
· You should be comfortable working in a B2B environment with a positive, self-driven or results oriented attitude. Strong teamwork, customer orientation, project management, effective time management skills with proven ability to oversee all assigned projects and meeting deadlines are highly desirable.
