Senior Flavorist

Location: South Brunswick, NJ, USA; onsite role

Salary: $153,349–$219,070 base annually, plus an annual bonus plan.

Company

hirify.global develops flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health and bioscience solutions, with a focus on sustainable innovation.

What you will do

• Design, formulate, develop, and optimize flavors for beverage, sweet goods, and dairy applications.
• Create compounded liquids, spray-dried powders, plated flavors, reaction flavors, emulsions, and extracts using approved materials.
• Lead creative development projects from concept through launch while managing specifications, timelines, quality, commercialization, and scale-up.
• Use analytical data, sensory science, and technical expertise to identify, characterize, formulate, and match flavor materials.
• Develop flavors that meet U.S. and international regulations, including requirements for alcoholic beverages.
• Collaborate with Applications, Research & Development, Marketing, Sales, Operations, account managers, and global innovation teams; mentor junior flavor professionals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
• 10+ years of hands-on flavor creation and development experience across sweet, dairy, and beverage categories.
• Fully certified flavor chemist credentials, such as Society of Flavor Chemists certification or an equivalent qualification.
• Strong knowledge of food science, chemistry, aroma molecules, natural extracts, flavor manufacturing processes, analytical evaluation, and sensory evaluation.
• Working knowledge of U.S. and international flavor regulations and approved flavor materials.
• Ability to manage multiple development projects, communicate technical information clearly, collaborate across functions, and mentor junior colleagues.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or doctorate in Food Science, Chemistry, or a related field.
• Experience developing clean-label and natural flavors while addressing related technical and regulatory requirements.
• Experience combining consumer insights, sensory science, and emerging technologies to create dhirify.globalerentiated flavor solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across Creative & Design, Applications, Research & Development, Marketing, Sales, and Operations.
• Access to global innovation capabilities and emerging flavor technologies.
• Opportunities to develop leadership skills through mentoring and developing junior colleagues.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); vacation and holidays; and paid parental leave.
• Annual bonus plan and additional employee benefits.