Flavourist

Date: Jul 7, 2025

Location: Shanghai, CN

Company: Döhler Group

Reference ID: 42155

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE

 

Your Role

You will take care of flavor creation projects for beverage accounts.

 

Your Responsibilities

-    Developing new flavours applying them as part of innovation projects (ItM) as a co-project owner in collaboration with the Product Manager of the respective business unit.
-    Developing new flavours as part of B2B customer projects (BtO) and, if required, B2C customer projects as the co-project owner in collaboration with the respective Technical Project Manager.
-    Providing support in the development of a flavour strategy by continuously monitoring the market, the competitors and the customers in collaboration with Market Intelligence.
-    Analysing market developments in the flavours segment with the aim of identifying best practices and new raw materials, technologies and product concepts.
-    Applying the guidelines and rules that are relevant to the Flavours division.
-    Implementing defined quality standards and guidelines.
-    Implementing guidelines on the execution and initiation of a diverse range of tests concerning the shelf life of and change in raw materials and B2B and B2C products in collaboration with Quality and Product Science.
-    Specifying criteria for the analysis of customer and reference products.
-    Ordering new raw materials by submitting a product request to Sourcing and specifying criteria for the analysis of the new raw materials.
-    Ensuring that recipes are created and maintained in SAP.
-    Ensuring the maintenance of product-specific substance data in SAP.
-    Evaluating and conducting measures assigned by Quality and corrective action.
-    Tasting developed products.
-    Implementing in-house and statutory specifications and guidelines on hygiene, HACCP, food safety, occupational safety and environmental protection. Ensuring that these are implemented in subordinate organisational units

 

Your Benefits

  • Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
  • Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
  • Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
  • Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
  • Anniversary and special payments
  • Employee referral bonuses
  • Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)
  • Döhler Academy: You have the opportunity to continuously develop your education further through internal and external training programs

 

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Wendy Lu. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.