Job Summary

It's an exciting time of growth for IFF, we’re inviting dedicated and passionate individual to join us as Food Technologist, Culinary in our Singapore Nourish Taste Division.

Your Focus
As Food Technologist, Culinary you focuses on reactive-/proactive customer projects and work closely in collaboration with the commercial counterparts. You will develop business knowledge & technical skills to become a Food Technologist professional. 

How you will contribute
Solution design
•    Hands on creation and application of savory products, processed meat knowledge, ready meals and convenience food, sauces, soups & bullions, condiments, plant-based meats using IFF’s range of products.
•    Good understanding about texturants (e.g.: TVP and ISP), emulsifier, hydrocolloid, flavor solutions.
•    Able to develop solutions to meet client’s briefs for the various markets in SEA.
•    Create, continuously renovate and maintain recipes/formulations and processing reports for prototypes.
•    Work and navigate independently through work tasks and projects.
•    Ensure developments are in compliance with the regulatory, religious and customer requirements (GRA legislation, CIU, etc.)
•    Handle culinary related applications within tight timelines. 
•    Maintains and continuously renovate the IFF recipe database.
•    Stay abreast with new developments in ingredients and application technologies.
•    Provide technical assistance to customer when required.
•    Ensure that the laboratory is kept in a safe, clean, good maintenance, hygienic work condition always and adhere to IFF EHS policies.
•    Always maintain a good stock of raw materials and consumable items
•    Contributes to internal trainings and workshops.
•    Able to work in as team player and collaborator.

Innovation & New Technology
•    Anticipates, investigates and resolves problems related to raw materials, solutions, finished protypes and initiate scale-up procedures.
•    Ensure using new raw materials, advancing technology, and utilizing IFF technology.
•    Contributes to category initiatives. 
•    Liaise with the creation team (flavorists) to use latest and approved IFF materials in application to offer IFF’s proprietary advantage.
•    Demonstrated creativity and an innovative mindset.

Customer Intimacy & Technical Partnership
•    Understands and communicates customer business strategy, brands, market preferences and trends.
•    Acts and behaves as a strong partner and collaborator to all relevant functions in the business.
•    Actively engages with clients to develop end solutions includes researches, refines and upgrades solutions for client projects.
•    Ability to present in-front of customer.

What you will need to be successful
•    Tertiary qualifications in Food Science and Technology or related disciplines (such as Chemistry, Biochemistry and Human Nutrition)
•    Minimally 6-8 years of relevant experiences in the food and flavor industry, handling flavors and ingredients with focus on savory/ culinary
•    Demonstrated capability in experimental design, detailed results analysis and sound technical judgement.
•    Open and innovative mindset
•    Experience in extrusion and textural ingredients will be well regarded.

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