Designer I - Bakery

Job Summary

As a Designer - Bakery, you will lead the development of innovative flavor and taste solutions for bakery applications from concept through commercialization. Leveraging your expertise in bakery products, ingredient functionality, flavor interactions, and product development, you will partner with customers and cross-functional teams to create consumer-centric, technically sound, and commercially successful solutions. This role combines hands-on application work, customer engagement, project leadership, and innovation to drive growth across bakery categories including cakes, biscuits, cookies, crackers, sweet baked goods, and related applications.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Lead the development and optimization of flavor and taste solutions for bakery applications that meet customer, consumer, regulatory, and commercial requirements.
• Manage projects independently from concept through commercialization across a variety of bakery categories including cakes, biscuits, cookies, crackers, sweet baked goods, and fillings.
• Design and execute laboratory and pilot-scale trials to ensure flavor performance and scalability.
• Partner closely with customers, providing technical expertise, recommendations, and troubleshooting support.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Flavor Creation, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Marketing, and Sales teams.
• Drive innovation by translating consumer insights, emerging trends, and new technologies into differentiated bakery flavor solutions.
• Support category growth initiatives, innovation programs, and continuous improvement projects.
• Present concepts, prototypes, and technical recommendations confidently to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Mentor and share technical knowledge with colleagues to strengthen organizational capabilities.
  
  

What Makes You The Right Fit

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Human Nutrition, or a related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 6-7 years of experience in bakery product development, food ingredients, flavors, or related food manufacturing industries.
• Strong expertise in bakery applications, product development, and commercialization.
• Deep understanding of ingredient functionality, flavor interactions, bakery processing technologies
• Hands-on experience working with bakery categories such as cakes, biscuits, cookies, crackers, sweet baked goods, fillings
• Proven ability to lead customer projects independently while managing multiple priorities.
• Experience working directly with customers and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong creativity, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills.
• Successful completion of internal IFF sensory requirements.
• Fluent English communication skills
  
  

How Would You Stand Out?

• Experience in flavor selection, or flavor-focused product development.
• Strong knowledge of bakery flavor systems, taste modulation, ingredient functionality, and processing technologies.
• Experience supporting regional or global customer innovation and commercialization projects.
• Experience leading strategic, high-value, or must-win customer projects.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into customer-focused solutions.
• Experience facilitating customer workshops, ideation sessions, and innovation programs.
• Track record of developing commercially successful bakery concepts from ideation through launch.
  
  

Why Choose Us?

• Work on innovative beverage solutions for leading global and regional customers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional experts across R&D, Creation, Marketing, Sales, and Operations.
• Lead projects with significant customer impact and business visibility.
• Be part of a culture that values creativity, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Contribute to strategic innovation and category growth initiatives.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional development, mentorship, and career growth in a global organization.
  
  

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.

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