Teamlead Flavour Creation

About the role

Döhler Turkey is looking for a Teamlead Flavour Creation for its Maltepe office in Istanbul. The role leads the Flavour Creation team across all flavour technology platforms, driving the development, harmonisation and continuous improvement of innovative flavour solutions for global and regional markets.

Key responsibilities

• Manage, coach and develop a team of flavourists and flavour creation professionals, fostering creativity, technical excellence and collaboration.
• Drive global R&D communication and collaboration with regional centres for flavour creation, application, sensory and technology.
• Translate consumer, customer and market insights into differentiated flavour concepts and innovation pipelines with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Sensory & Consumer Science and Application teams.
• Lead flavour innovation projects end-to-end, from concept and design through validation, optimisation, scale-up and commercial implementation.
• Provide technical leadership across flavour tonalities and technologies, ensuring best practice in formulation, sensory quality, functionality and performance.
• Use sensory expertise together with analytical, data-driven decision-making to solve technical challenges.
• Represent the Flavour Creation function in global innovation platforms, customer engagements, strategic projects and technical reviews.
• Drive standardisation and continuous improvement of flavour formulations, integrating sensory evaluation, analytical data, regulatory requirements, raw material management, processing constraints, shelf-life and customer expectations.
• Contribute to the long-term flavour innovation strategy, identifying emerging technologies, ingredient trends and consumer preferences.

Required profile

• University degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Food Science or a related scientific discipline.
• Extensive experience as a flavourist, with proven leadership and people management experience in flavour creation, development or R&D organisations.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams, managing performance and coaching talent.
• Broad expertise across multiple flavour technologies and tonalities, with strong flavour chemistry knowledge and advanced sensory capabilities.
• In-depth understanding of flavour development processes, ingredient functionality, food and beverage applications and commercial innovation environments.
• Fluent in English, with strong presentation and influencing skills.