Senior Designer - Beverage & Dairy
International Flavors & Fragrances
- São Paulo - SP
- Permanente
- Período integral
- Proven time and project management skills.
- Partners with production and quality department to complete scale-up trials and support QA/QC with trouble shooting when necessary.
- Independently navigates projects from start to finish and acts as a project leader in teams.
- High level knowledge of formula ingredients, raw materials, and their function in beverage and dairy applications
- Continuously evolves and expands knowledge of ingredients and materials for Product Design.
- Leverage technical resources to drive growth via customer engagement, collaborating with Chefs, Flavorists, Seasoning Flavorists, Designers, and other Scientists.
- Independently manages time and projects for assigned tasks.
- Develops work-plans to manage work for projects.
- Provide technical guidance on unusual or complex problems.
- Develops finished product formulations incorporating IFF technologies and meeting industrial standards, country specific and client requirements (profile, legal, cost and stability requirements).
- Demonstrates consistent significant commercial success year after year.
- Creates and executes training programs for technical and commercial staff.
- Anticipates, investigates, and resolves problems related to raw materials, solutions, finished prototypes and initial scale-up procedures.
- Proactive in using new ingredients, advancing technology, and utilizing IFF technology.
- Successfully demonstrates new technology in appropriate projects.
- Demonstrate a deep passion for full product design, creativity, science, collaboration, and networking with cross functional teams
- Proficient in IFF Software and Databases
- Demonstrates an understanding of IFF Innovation Programs and promotes them within the organization.
- Clear understanding and execution of IFF Innovation processes.
- May act as local Innovation subject matter expert.
- Strong understanding, communication, and contribution to IFF business strategy at a local, regional, and global level.
- Understands and communicates customer business strategy, brands, consumer preference and market trends.
- Provide technical services to customers as needed (plant trials, troubleshooting, and training).
- Visits customers and presents technical information and taste and texture design concepts.
- Develops strong relationships with aligned customers and related categories.
- Assist customers by participating in in-house visits, answering technical questions, and conducting seminars and presentations as assigned.
- Provides total solutions utilizing creative problem-solving skills.
- Strong creativity, innovation, and presentation skills.
- A valued partner with strategic customers and related categories.
- Shows positive attitude, ownership and passion.
- Mentors Trainees and more junior Designers
- Demonstrates ability to lead a cross-functional team.
- Inspires and build confidence in others to achieve targets.
- Demonstrates being a team player, a leader, and/or collaborator in high value projects.
- Minimum 10 years working experience in industrial food, ingredient, or flavor industry plus a minimum 5 years in the specific field of expertise (Beverage and Dairy).
- 2-3 years' experience as leader in interdepartmental cross-functional team
- Minimum entry level is a University/College Degree in Food Science and Technology or related disciplines (such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology)
- English at an intermediate/advanced level
- Spanish at an intermediate level
- Strong communication (verbal and written), organizational and interpersonal skills are necessary
- Travel may be required up to 10% of the time to in person customer presentations or internal offsite presentations or collaborative sessions.
- This position is considered an Anchor and requires working in the lab/pilot plant for 5 days/week.
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