Job Summary
Job Summary
Do you have the skill to craft winning flavors and the ambition to shape the future of taste?
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Taste - Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success.
The role is based at our creative center in Dijon in an onsite capacity. Join a team where creativity, science, and innovation come together to shape winning flavors. Here, your expertise drives real impact and your growth fuels our shared success.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Independently create high‑quality dairy flavors and contribute to project teams to deliver winning solutions for local & regional customers
- Apply strong sensory skills and raw‑material knowledge to develop, refine, and articulate flavor concepts across applications.
- Formulate flavors using both established and emerging technologies, exploring new molecules and delivery systems to enhance innovation.
- Manage mid‑level creative briefs autonomously while collaborating effectively with cross‑functional partners to meet customer expectations.
- Build strong internal networks and participate in technical exchanges to broaden understanding of raw materials, analytical methods, and flavor creation processes.
- Engage directly with customers (where applicable) to understand their brand needs and translate them into impactful flavor solutions.
- Contribute to category initiatives and innovation programs, bringing creative ideas and early problem‑solving capabilities to the team.
- Support continuous knowledge-sharing by assisting senior flavorists in coaching, training, and developing junior team members.
- Demonstrate leadership by staying connected across regional teams, fostering collaboration, and strengthening strategic partnerships.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences, Food Technology, etc.); Master’s degree preferred.
- Completion of the IFF trainee course and Associate Flavorist program (or equivalent) with competitor.
- 5-8 years of hands‑on dairy flavor creation experience, with the ability to independently develop flavors for regional and global customers and work confidently on mid‑level briefs.
- Strong sensory skills, deep knowledge of raw materials, and proven capability in creative formulation
- Familiarity with French dairy industry and major players is a plus
How Would You Stand Out?
- Strong communicator
- Ability to cross collaborate with internal & external teams
- Team player
- Customer focused
There is potential for this role to have a managerial responsibilties of a small local team.
Why Choose Us?
- Work Profile: Permanent
- Professional onboarding process
- Flexibility, agility in approach to project execution
- Ability to work with multiple disciplines in a dynamic, global environment
- Training opportunities
- Learning and development programs from day one
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific field (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences, Food Technology, etc.)
- Master's degree
- Completion of the IFF trainee course and Associate Flavorist program (or equivalent)
- 5-8 years hands-on dairy flavor creation experience
- Strong sensory skills
- Deep knowledge of raw materials
- Proven capability in creative formulation
- Familiarity with French dairy industry and major players
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Customer-focused with ability to engage customers
- Experience or willingness to coach and develop junior team members
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
