IFF

Application Specialist – Culinary Applications

IFF  •  Kingdom of Denmark (Onsite)  •  8 days ago
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Job Description

Are you passionate about translating ingredient technology into customer-relevant culinary solutions across EMEA?

IFF is a global leader in flavours, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Taste – Culinary Applications
With innovative technologies, we create distinctive culinary solutions that shape food identities, drive market success, and respond to evolving consumer needs.

The role is based in Brabrand, Denmark, on-site. You will join a collaborative, experienced, and solution-oriented Culinary Applications team, where global knowledge sharing enables you to challenge existing solutions and help shape future application concepts. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

  • Provide technical application support and customer visits across EMEA within Oils & Fats (Margarines & Spreads) and selected Non-Food solutions
  • Translate ingredient technologies into customer-relevant application solutions
  • Design, execute, and follow up on projects and trials, both internally and at customer sites when required
  • Prepare technical documentation and application reports
  • Develop new application solutions and concepts aligned with strategic objectives, market trends, and product launches
  • Train customers and colleagues in applications and related processes
  • Support Research & Development (R&D) projects and patent activities
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and develop long-term customer partnerships

What Makes You the Right Fit

  • Relevant educational background, preferably at M.Sc. level
  • 5–10 years of experience in the Food and/or Non-Food industry
  • Solid experience within Oils & Fats, including Margarines & Spreads
  • Strong technical expertise in emulsifiers
  • In-depth understanding of nutrition and food chemistry, particularly fats and crystallization
  • Hands-on technical insight combined with a commercial mindset
  • Practical experience with manufacturing processes, pilot plants, and analytical techniques
  • Professional proficiency in English

How Would You Stand Out?

  • Experience working with both Food and Non-Food applications
  • Strong presentation and customer training skills
  • Experience working in international, cross-functional environments

Why Choose Us?

  • Exposure to global expertise and knowledge sharing across IFF
  • Opportunities to work on innovative and future-focused application concepts
  • International collaboration and customer interaction
  • Continuous learning through R&D and application development projects
  • International travel opportunities (approximately 30–40 days per year across Europe and AMETI)

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more

IFF

About IFF

At IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart. As the global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, we deliver groundbreaking, sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products—advancing wellness, delighting the senses and enhancing the human experience.

With ~22,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers and 33,000 customers worldwide, we turn possibilities into reality by redefining the limits of science and nature to create a more positive, sustainable future for all.

Visit us at www.iff.com to learn how our real-deal experts approach work with an entrepreneurial mindset, working lockstep to defy expectations and create industry-defining solutions that do more good for people and planet

Industry
Chemicals & Materials
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
New York, New York
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
iff.com
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