Director of Flavor Innovation - Synergy Flavors : Job Details

The Director, Flavor Innovation is a senior technical leader responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and execution of sweet and savory flavor innovation. This role blends customer-facing impact with organizational leadership—delivering market-relevant solutions, advancing proprietary technologies, and leading a diverse team to strengthen the company's reputation and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead & Inspire Teams: Build and guide a high-performing, collaborative team through clear communication, trust, and accountability.
• Drive Innovation: Develop and commercialize proprietary flavors, technologies, and processes that differentiate the business and deliver measurable customer value.
• Customer Engagement: Partner with key customers to shape and expand adoption of core technologies, positioning the company as a trusted strategic partner.
• Strategic Leadership: Balance daily execution with long-term vision; create commercially viable, sustainable growth plans.
• Talent Development: Mentor and develop future leaders through training, performance management, and knowledge transfer.
• Global Alignment: Harmonize flavor systems, standards, training, and technology across regions for consistency and efficiency.
• Industry Leadership: Represent the company externally as a thought leader, build networks, and strengthen market presence.
• Data-Driven Culture: Champion data-driven decision-making to guide strategy, resourcing, and prioritization.

Leadership Expectations:

• Lead, develop, and inspire high-performing teams, fostering accountability, trust, and collaboration.
• Build cross-functional alignment and drive execution across global teams.
• Act with authenticity, courage, and empathy to create an environment of psychological safety and innovation.
• Develop future leaders, and create succession plans within technical teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, food science, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• Strong knowledge of flavor, ingredient, or food and beverage industries
• Deep expertise in flavor chemistry, raw materials, evaluation methods, and manufacturing processes and end to end commercial flavor processes.
• Strong knowledge of global regulatory frameworks (FEMA/GRAS, EFSA, etc.).
• Proven track record of commercially relevant innovation and delivery.
• Experience leading cross-functional and global teams, with strong influencing skills across technical and commercial audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to scale teams, drive organizational change, and mentor future leaders.
• Demonstrated track record of commercially relevant innovation and delivery of market-driven solutions.

Salary range: $179,208.25 - $268, 812.37

The actual compensation that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled.

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