Senior Flavourist
LOCATION: Newbury
CONTRACT: Full-time, Permanent
SALARY: Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
POSITION OVERVIEW:
At I.T.S., we create flavour solutions that help our customers make food and drink people love. To
support our continued growth, we’re looking for an experienced Senior Flavourist to help boost our
flavour creation team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the creation, development, and optimisation of
flavour systems across a range of applications, supporting customer briefs and driving product
innovation. This is a senior technical role requiring strong creative capability, deep knowledge of
raw materials, and extensive experience in flavour formulation within the flavour industry.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
Flavour Creation & Development
Create innovative liquid and powdered flavour formulations for food, beverage, and health and
wellness applications.
Interpret customer briefs and translate them into commercially viable flavour solutions.
Optimise existing flavour formulas for cost, performance, regulatory compliance, and supply chain
stability.
Conduct flavour matching and improvement projects.
Technical Leadership
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to flavourists, junior flavourists and flavour
technicians.
Lead complex customer projects from brief through to final approval. Support cross-functional teams
including sales, regulatory, and applications.
Customer Collaboration
Participate in customer presentations and flavour reviews.
Work closely with the commercial team to deliver flavour solutions aligned with market trends and
client needs.
Provide technical insight during troubleshooting or reformulation projects.
Innovation & Market Insight
Identify emerging flavour trends, ingredients, and technologies.
Contribute to internal innovation pipelines and proactive flavour development. Support development
of signature or proprietary flavour systems.
Quality & Compliance
Ensure all formulations meet UK, EU, and international regulatory requirements. Maintain accurate
documentation within formulation databases.
Support quality and scale-up processes for commercial production.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Degree in Chemistry, Food Science, or related discipline.
10+ years’ experience as a flavourist within the flavour industry.
Demonstrated expertise in flavour creation and matching across multiple applications. Strong
knowledge of aroma chemicals, essential oils, extracts, and flavour ingredients. Experience working
with flavour formulation software and databases.
KEY SKILLS
Exceptional sensory evaluation, flavour profiling & creative formulation ability. Project
management and organisational skills.
Ability to balance creativity with commercial constraints.
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE
Excellent communication and presentation skills. Experience supporting international markets.
ARE YOU THE RIGHT FIT?
We’re passionate about creating bold, on-trend, tailor-made flavours and going the extra mile for
our customers, building open, honest partnerships along the way. We push boundaries, value our
people, and work with those who want to be a bit braver, because for us, you should never stand
still.
CONTACT: Sharon Jones (Head of Customer Services, Finance & HR) Email: hr@itstaste.com.