Senior Flavourist
hace 11 horas
Newbury
Senior Flavourist LOCATION: Newbury CONTRACT: Full-time, Permanent SALARY: Competitive + Bonus + Benefits POSITION OVERVIEW: At I.T.S., we create flavour solutions that help our customers make food and drink people love. To support our continued growth, we’re looking for an experienced Senior Flavourist to help boost our flavour creation team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the creation, development, and optimisation of flavour systems across a range of applications, supporting customer briefs and driving product innovation. This is a senior technical role requiring strong creative capability, deep knowledge of raw materials, and extensive experience in flavour formulation within the flavour industry. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING: Flavour Creation & Development Create innovative liquid and powdered flavour formulations for food, beverage, and health and wellness applications. Interpret customer briefs and translate them into commercially viable flavour solutions. Optimise existing flavour formulas for cost, performance, regulatory compliance, and supply chain stability. Conduct flavour matching and improvement projects. Technical Leadership Provide technical guidance and mentorship to flavourists, junior flavourists and flavour technicians. Lead complex customer projects from brief through to final approval. Support cross-functional teams including sales, regulatory, and applications. Customer Collaboration Participate in customer presentations and flavour reviews. Work closely with the commercial team to deliver flavour solutions aligned with market trends and client needs. Provide technical insight during troubleshooting or reformulation projects. Innovation & Market Insight Identify emerging flavour trends, ingredients, and technologies. Contribute to internal innovation pipelines and proactive flavour development. Support development of signature or proprietary flavour systems. Quality & Compliance Ensure all formulations meet UK, EU, and international regulatory requirements. Maintain accurate documentation within formulation databases. Support quality and scale-up processes for commercial production. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE Degree in Chemistry, Food Science, or related discipline. 10+ years’ experience as a flavourist within the flavour industry. Demonstrated expertise in flavour creation and matching across multiple applications. Strong knowledge of aroma chemicals, essential oils, extracts, and flavour ingredients. Experience working with flavour formulation software and databases. KEY SKILLS Exceptional sensory evaluation, flavour profiling & creative formulation ability. Project management and organisational skills. Ability to balance creativity with commercial constraints. DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE Excellent communication and presentation skills. Experience supporting international markets. ARE YOU THE RIGHT FIT? We’re passionate about creating bold, on-trend, tailor-made flavours and going the extra mile for our customers, building open, honest partnerships along the way. We push boundaries , value our people, and work with those who want to be a bit braver, because for us, you should never stand still. CONTACT: Sharon Jones (Head of Customer Services, Finance & HR) Email: .