Talent Acquisition Specialist | enriching lives together
Synergy Flavours, a division of the Carbery Group, is a global leader in flavourings, extracts, and essences. With locations in 8 countries and customers in over 50 countries, we combine innovation, sensory science, and application expertise to deliver high-quality taste solutions across the food and beverage industry. Guided by our purpose of enriching lives, we help our customers meet evolving consumer needs, whether through sugar reduction, clean label innovation, or enhanced nutritional profiles, while fostering sustainability and collaboration.
As an application technologist in the Synergy Innovation team, your work will be focused on but not exclusive to the beverage category. The work will be on soft drinks for example juice drinks, carbonates, energy drinks, flavoured waters and alcoholic beverages such as spirit drinks, ferments, and flavoured alcoholic beverages. The main role will be developing innovative beverage formulations (considering both technical and commercial constraints) with Synergy’s taste solutions.
You will work on optimising the flavour portfolio and from this, make flavour selections for customers.
You will have a curious mind set to continuously learn and develop industry leading ways of working and product applications.
Objectives, Roles and Responsibilities
* Lead reactive customer briefings, working on end-to-end beverage development, selecting the best taste solutions from Synergy’s portfolio. From customer brief objectives, deliver projects on time, performing necessary revisions as required. Ensure recipes are fit for factory production supported with relevant specifications.
* Prepare samples for sensory evaluation for project work and to support the Innovation team.
* With the applications team, evaluate flavours and optimise the Synergy portfolio.
* Select appropriate flavours for sample requests.
* Carry out projects with the wider Innovation team, manage relationships with the creation, analytical and sensory groups to ensure successful project outcomes.
* Contribute to departmental long-term proactive projects ensuring that objectives are completed within project scope. Support all related application work.
* Participate in category-led activities requiring application work - support Synergy proactive presentations and promotions.
* Attend sensory sessions to support the work of the Innovation Team and QC.
* Work directly with customers, lead workshops and attend customer visits.
* Attend trade shows and conferences to both understand the market and develop customer relationships.
* Build relationships with ingredient suppliers and industry specialists to gain raw material, legislative and processing knowledge.
* Develop relationships with customers to best understand their processing capabilities to ensure recipe development is optimised for their requirements.
* With continuous learning, develop expertise in beverage formulations, to offer technical advice to other members of the applications team, customers, and account managers.
Key Ingredients for Success
* Degree in Food Science / Science, or related subject
* 2-3 years of experience working in beverage development - have formulation expertise in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
* Effective communicator with all stakeholders, both internally and externally.
* Ability to prioritise effectively, while working on multiple projects, often with short deadlines
* Creative mindset
* Passionate about food and drink
Highly desirable
* Driving licence
Special Relationships and Contacts (Internal and External)
* Innovation team members
* Customers
Our commitment to our People
We are a diverse and growing workforce of over 1,000 people across eight countries globally. As we continue to grow, we want to ensure that Carbery Group continues to be a place where people are supported to develop and feel that they can do their best work. We are committed to driving growth, developing future capability and delivering results through our dedicated teams.
We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and an inclusive workplace where your skills, perspectives, and experience help shape the future of our industry. Join us and be part of a team that values collaboration and makes a meaningful impact - from local communities to global markets.
Carbery Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering a supportive work environment.
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