Sonarome is a 44 year old company engaged in manufacturing Flavours & Fragrances. Flavours for all food applications, including but not limited to Confectionery, Bakery, Beverages, Ice Cream, Distilled Beverages, etc and Fragrances for applications such as soaps, detergents, personal care & fine fragrances. Sonarome is an ISO-9001, FSSC 22000 and GMP certified company. In addition, our products are all certified Kosher & Halal.
We’re Hiring! 🚨
We are looking for a Principal Flavourist to lead innovation and craft exceptional taste experiences for us!
If you have the experience and passion for creating world-class flavours and a deep understanding of the industry, we would love to hear from you.
- Job Title: Principal Flavorist
- Location: Sonarome – Bangalore
- Department: Flavours Development Lab
Summary:
To assist in flavor development and novel creation for key customers and project briefings and to provide internal guidance for technical requests related to raw materials, finished flavors and processing concerns.
To be a leader and mentor for the flavor division, to maintain our creation and application lab competency level at the forefront, and to specifically assist flavorist trainees and junior staff members.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage projects, developing flavours in line with business need and in response to customer brief.
- Create new profiles in line with regional taste, needs and preferences.
- Be the technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, and customers for ingredient and flavour performance for selected flavour types
- Interacts with key customers regionally or globally to understand requirements.
- Work with analytical group on flavour matching projects.
- Liaise directly with R&D France on relevant project work.
- Support introduction of new materials in the local creative portfolio – manage the local codebook Support the scale up of new formulations and production. Resolve flavour production issues and customer complaints Proactively works with new molecules, in specific areas of improvement. Able and willing to mentor others in the organization – trainees & associate flavourists.
- Involvement in external groups- industry bodies, flavourist associations etc.
- Stay connected regionally, foster knowledge sharing, teamwork & strategic partnerships
- Commit to Robertet and SQF Quality Standards and continuous improvement of the quality management systems.
- Having a base knowledge of organic chemistry and principles of food science
Required skills:
- Expert in raw materials & flavour creation techniques Knowledge of safe lab practices
- Demonstrates early signs of problem-solving capability
- Having leadership qualities and management skills Effective cross-functional team player with excellent communication skills
- Computer software proficiency particularly office spreadsheet, presentation, and data base
Key competencies:
- Can effectively cope with change.
- Can decide and act without having the total picture.
- Seek and value input from others.
- Consistently propose accurate solutions and suggestions
- Inspire and build the confidence of others to achieve targets
Qualifications:
Required:
- Minimum entry level is a BS in Science (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences etc.)
- 10 (minimum) to 15 years independent creative flavor laboratory bench top experience.
- Lead Flavorist on Key Customer Accounts
- 5-10 years direct supervision of flavorist assistant(s) or junior staff member(s) Customer/Internal Presentations Cross Functional/International Team Experience
Preferred:
- Master’ degree in Food Technology, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Food Engineering and/or Chemistry Engineering
- 15-20 years independent creative flavor laboratory bench top experience.
- Lead Flavorist on Key Customer Accounts 10-15 years direct supervision of flavorist assistant(s) or junior staff member(s)
- Customer/Internal Presentations
- Cross Functional/International Team Experience
- Internal Initiative Leader
- Mentorship
- Advanced Degrees
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