About Us

Established over a hundred years ago, Takasago is a global leading company in the flavour and fragrance industry, having developed flavours and fragrances for some of the world’s most successful manufacturers of foods, beverages, fine fragrances, home, and personal care products.

For over 35 years, we have been a leading industrial producer of L-Menthol, using our core technology, asymmetric synthesis.

This technology enables us to produce unique, novel, and nature-identical aroma ingredients, and in addition, to manufacture pharmaceutical intermediates, functional materials, and other fine chemicals.

Takasago Group maintains offices, production sites, and R&D; centers in twenty-seven countries and regions.

Responsibilities

SCOPE & RESPONSIBILITIES

- To develop/prepare and present powder/ liquid prototypes which demonstrate the ability of Takasago flavorings to the sales/customers.
- To become fully conversant with the range of powder/ liquid formulations that are used in the industry to produce the prototypes.
- To maintain and service the equipment used for the development in line with the recommendations made by the manufacturer.
- Execute daily brief-related tasks and fully manage the flavour selection, evaluation and application development as well as leading customer visits and product development and product presentations at the customer when required.
- Lead evaluations of flavours in Beverage and powder applications for briefs, research projects and portfolio evaluations.
- Select optimal flavours for projects according to specified requirements (i.e. customer, regulatory, legislation, costs)



and proactively take responsibility to suggest updates using flavours with high performance in common applications.
- Identify appropriate flavour delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in Beverages applications.
- Awareness of FSSAI requirements for beverage category

SPECIFIC DUTIES

- To review all the raw materials used for the product development. To ensure the selection of these raw materials are made on their quality stability uniformity and ability to cost effectively replace the existing materials.
- To respond quickly and efficiently to customers deadlines and complete projects to the agreed time schedule.
- To recommend to the management, systems procedures and tests to improve project response time and or the cost of product development.
- To routinely maintain clean and service laboratory equipment as recommended by the manufacturer and to assist the HOD in the selection of suitable laboratory equipment and or its evaluation prior to purchase.
- To purchase the consumable required for the laboratories.

Qualifications

Knowledge & Skills:

- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Food Technology or related subjects
- 8+ years of professional experience food and beverage applications lab, flavours lab or related area.
- Experience managing departmental workload through and good Project management skills
- Ability to lead projects for customers including customer visits
- Should be creative, a self-starter with good time management, excellent numerical, planning and decision-making skills. Ability to translate market trends into creative products for key customers
- Ability to supervise a team of technologists and drive engagement
- Willingness to travel up to 10-15% to remote team and customers

📌 Beverage Application Technologist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Takasago International
📍 Bengaluru