Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature.

Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances, natural colours and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

At Sense Colour we develop, market and produce a wide array of colour solutions from our 17 colour manufacturing sites globally. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every colour sale enhances the visual appeal for food and beverages. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Our comprehensive knowledge of natural colours, global footprint and strategic insights ensure close partnerships with our customers. With a customized approach to product creation, recent strategic alignment, and the launch of our 2025 strategy, the Sense Colour Taste and Wellbeing Division is a powerhouse of knowledge, innovation, and creativity equipped to surprise customers and consumers with fresh, unique ideas and solutions. We create natural colour experiences that touch emotions across segments including beverages, sweet goods, savory and snacks, and food service.

This role is a technological color expert for food applications.  This role will develop and evaluate colors in food systems that best represent customer requests, develop food applications, utilize food, color, sensory and analytical sciences to complete customer specific application projects and develop new color solutions to grow commercial sales of the Givaudan Sense Colour product portfolio.

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Located in Louisville, KY:

• Develop Color Solutions: Utilize existing SCBU color solutions or develop new colors to solve customer product development needs. Provide data and reports for customer specific projects or new color approvals.
• Food and Beverage Applications: Develop a practical knowledge of all food and beverage application categories. Become a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more strategic application sectors.  Develop and successfully apply color to food formulations.  Understand color stability and performance in food applications by designing experiments, collecting data, interpreting results and writing reports.  Ensure reports are readily available as a resource to all in S&I.  Conduct sensory testing and application screening to support new color solution development and sales.
• Customer Support: Interact and troubleshoot with customers on color challenges in their food applications. Understand customer cost restraints for color use and timeline for project completion.  Foster relationships with peers at key accounts, building the image of SCBU, through you, as the technological leader in colors.  Develop application knowledge within assigned food categories and become recognized as a color solutions partner by food product developers.   Collaborate with sales to enhance the customer experience.  Responds with a sense of urgency to customer requests.
• New Product Development: Develop new color processes and technologies to assist in the development of customers’ color requirements.   Utilize pilot scale equipment to manufacture customer prototypes.  Successfully, execute and manage color development from benchtop to commercialization.   Engage with production for the development of new products to ensure production efficiency.  Engage with finance, when needed, to develop the most cost-effective formulas and processes.   Approve new raw materials and validate development of finished products through appropriate testing.  Assist purchasing with the approval of new suppliers.   Develop methods relevant to the introduction of new products and /or processes.
• Food Regulatory Compliance: Collaborate with regulatory to ensure applications are acceptable in the regional or global markets where sales are expected.
• Uphold SCBU’s Mission Statement for Safety, Quality, Values and Beliefs
• Develop Color Solutions: Utilize existing SCBU color solutions or develop new colors to solve customer product development needs. Provide data and reports for customer specific projects or new color approvals.
• Food and Beverage Applications: Develop a practical knowledge of all food and beverage application categories. Become a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more strategic application sectors.  Develop and successfully apply color to food formulations.  Understand color stability and performance in food applications by designing experiments, collecting data, interpreting results and writing reports.  Ensure reports are readily available as a resource to all in S&I.  Conduct sensory testing and application screening to support new color solution development and sales.
• Customer Support: Interact and troubleshoot with customers on color challenges in their food applications. Understand customer cost restraints for color use and timeline for project completion.  Foster relationships with peers at key accounts, building the image of SCBU, through you, as the technological leader in colors.  Develop application knowledge within assigned food categories and become recognized as a color solutions partner by food product developers.   Collaborate with sales to enhance the customer experience.  Responds with a sense of urgency to customer requests.
• New Product Development: Develop new color processes and technologies to assist in the development of customers’ color requirements.   Utilize pilot scale equipment to manufacture customer prototypes.  Successfully, execute and manage color development from benchtop to commercialization.   Engage with production for the development of new products to ensure production efficiency.  Engage with finance, when needed, to develop the most cost-effective formulas and processes.   Approve new raw materials and validate development of finished products through appropriate testing.  Assist purchasing with the approval of new suppliers.   Develop methods relevant to the introduction of new products and /or processes.
• Food Regulatory Compliance: Collaborate with regulatory to ensure applications are acceptable in the regional or global markets where sales are expected.
• Project Management: Plan and lead designated R&D or cross-functional projects. Ensure accurate and appropriate documentation of experimental trials and outcomes to facilitate scale up and product transfer to manufacturing. Keep good accurate records that are accessible.
• Mentorship: Mentor direct reports, if applicable, Associate Application Scientists, Application Scientists, and other Scientific Associates as required to facilitate growth of the team.
• Colorant Knowledge and Expertise: Develop technological expertise in application sectors and enhance your skills to become a technological color expert. Understand physical and chemical properties of colors and raw materials.  Increase color knowledge through interactions and collaborations within SCBU and with external resources like academic experts or other external resources, literature reviews, regulatory monitoring, and laboratory studies.  Utilize knowledge to advise on the development of the SCBU color portfolio in addition to building the SCBU technological leader image within the industry.
• Marketing and Sales Support Training and Materials: Collaborate with marketing to develop food experiences with colors for customers. Provide application data and related conclusions to marketing to develop sales support information.  Originate science-based tools to convey product offerings and advantages to increase color sales.  Prepare, organize, and present technical or application seminars to customers as requested by Sales or Marketing.
• Scientific Leadership: Prepare and present research and other relevant information at tradeshows, and other scientific forums.  Show involvement in relevant scientific communities to support SCBU’s technical leader strategy.  Attend trade shows, conferences, scientific meetings and short courses as necessary to support SCBU strategy and for personal growth.  Conduct credible presentations to customers to promote SCBU as a scientific leader.
• Quality Focus: Actively participate in quality improvement.
• Laboratory Protocols: Ensure that Good Laboratory Practices and lab protocols are being met globally.  Evolve record documentation and methodology into appropriate database.  Maintain the calibration of laboratory instruments, proper calibration records and laboratory supply stock.
• Work Environment: Maintains a clean and orderly work environment (lab, pilot plant and storage areas) following Good Laboratory Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Safety: Ensure work is performed in a safe and in an environmentally sound manner. Take ownership for proactively eliminating all unsafe conditions and risk behaviors.  Promotes safe lab practices among peers.
• Academic/External Relationships: Establish strong relationships with select academic researchers and universities to augment application and pilot plant abilities and capabilities to strengthen SCBU as the technological color leader.  Leverage relationships to identify potential new hires and/or resources that may be valuable to SCBU.  Collaborate with suppliers and other external resources to bring novel materials and technologies into SCBU.
• Master’s Degree in Food Science or related degree
• Minimum 5 years R&D experience required; food applications background a strong plus

Benefits include health, dental, vision, paid holidays, vacation, 401K, paid life insurance, short term medical, long term medical, and tuition assistance.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful colour, taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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