Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & 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 in Carrollton, Texas (on-site 5 days per week). Be part of an experienced, customer-focused, innovative team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You'll Make a Difference
- Lead the development and application of seasoning solutions for culinary, snack, and other food product categories.
- Execute customer projects from concept through commercialization, ensuring solutions meet customer, regulatory, and business requirements.
- Partner with customers to identify opportunities, solve technical challenges, and build long-term collaborative relationships.
- Develop consumer-preferred seasoning systems by leveraging formulation expertise, culinary insights, innovation, and market trends.
- Provide technical leadership for strategic category initiatives, platform development, and technology implementation projects.
- Collaborate with Sales, Operations, Regulatory, Purchasing, and global technical teams to successfully deliver customer solutions.
- Investigate and resolve formulation, raw material, prototype, and scale-up challenges to support product success.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional project teams to ensure timely execution and achievement of project objectives.
- Mentor and support the development of junior scientists and emerging technical talent.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in seasoning formulation, product development, and troubleshooting within the food industry.
- Demonstrated experience developing and applying seasoning systems for commercial food products.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working within cross-functional teams and collaborating with diverse stakeholders.
- Strong technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with both customers and internal partners.
- Ability to translate consumer and market insights into innovative product solutions.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% as business needs require.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Master’s degree in Food Science or a related scientific field.
- Experience supporting global customer projects and multinational product development initiatives.
- Strong project leadership experience with successful commercialization and technology implementation outcomes.
- Strong experience in protein, specifically meat-related products (glazes, rubs, marinades, etc.)
Why Choose Us?
- Opportunity to influence strategic category and platform initiatives.
- Competitive Benefits (US): Our benefit package includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), vacation, holidays, 16 weeks paid parental leave (maternity and paternity), and an annual bonus plan. IFF was also recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Perks & Benefits.
- Diversity & Inclusion (US): IFF has been recognized previously in the US on the Disability Equality Index® – Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion
- Innovation: Gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies and trailblazing advancements in the flavors and seasonings industry.
- Global Collaboration: Be part of a global organization that values innovation, creativity, and collaborating amongst our diverse, cross-functional teams
- Sustainability: Contribute to solutions that support a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world. IFF was recognized on the Forbes Net Zero Leaders 2026 list within the chemicals/materials sector.
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 Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or related scientific discipline
- Minimum 10 years of experience in seasoning formulation, product development, and troubleshooting within the food industry
- Demonstrated experience developing and applying seasoning systems for commercial food products
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working within cross-functional teams and collaborating with diverse stakeholders
- Strong technical problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with customers and internal partners
- Ability to translate consumer and market insights into innovative product solutions
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%
- Ability to mentor and support development of junior scientists and emerging technical talent
- Master's degree in Food Science or related scientific field
- Experience supporting global customer projects and multinational product development initiatives
- Strong project leadership experience with successful commercialization and technology implementation
- Strong experience in protein, specifically meat-related products (glazes, rubs, marinades, etc.)
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.
