Flavorist (Taste)

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates; work in the Dubai offices

Company

hirify.global develops flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health and bioscience solutions, with a focus on sustainable innovation and technology-enabled flavor design.

What you will do

• Design and formulate innovative flavors for food and beverage applications, including liquids, spray-dried powders, plated flavors, reaction flavors, emulsions, and extracts.
• Create, develop, and optimize flavor profiles across beverage, sweet goods, and dairy categories.
• Lead creative development projects from concept through launch while meeting specifications, timelines, and quality standards.
• Apply analytical data, sensory science, and technical expertise to characterize and match flavor materials.
• Develop flavors in line with U.S. and international regulations, including requirements for alcoholic beverages.
• Collaborate with Applications, R&D, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and global innovation teams, while mentoring 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 recognized qualification.
• Strong knowledge of food science, chemistry, aroma molecules, natural extracts, and flavor manufacturing processes.
• Experience identifying, characterizing, formulating, and matching flavor materials using analytical and sensory evaluation techniques.
• Knowledge of U.S. and international flavor regulations, project management, customer collaboration, and mentoring.

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 technical and regulatory requirements.
• Experience combining consumer insights, sensory science, and emerging technologies to create dhirify.globalerentiated flavor solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across beverage, sweet goods, and dairy applications.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues across creative, technical, commercial, and operations functions.
• Access global innovation capabilities and emerging flavor technologies.
• Develop leadership capabilities through mentoring and developing junior colleagues.
• Contribute scientific and creative expertise to solutions shaped by evolving consumer preferences.