Industry Manager – Flavours (Sweet Goods) in the flavour/chemical industry is typically responsible for developing the business and technical portfolio for bakery, biscuits, confectionery, dairy desserts and related sweet applications.

Key responsibilities

• Business development
• Identify opportunities with biscuit, bakery, confectionery, dairy and beverage manufacturers.
• Develop current customers and grow existing accounts.
• Understand customer requirements and translate them into flavour solutions.
• Support sales teams with technical and application expertise.
• Flavour portfolio management
• Manage flavours for biscuits, cookies, cakes, wafers, chocolates, fillings, creams and confectionery.
• Identify market trends and develop new flavour concepts.
• Maintain and optimize the sweet-goods flavour portfolio.
• Application & technical support
• Work closely with flavourists and application technologists.
• Conduct flavour evaluation in finished products.
• Recommend flavour dosage, flavour type and processing suitability.
• Troubleshoot issues such as baking loss,



flavour release, masking, off-notes and flavour stability.
• Customer interaction
• Conduct customer presentations, technical discussions and product trials.
• Participate in sensory evaluations and product-development meetings.
• Convert customer briefs into commercially viable flavour solutions.
• Market & competitor analysis
• Track competitor flavour technologies and products.
• Monitor consumer trends such as natural flavours, clean label, indulgent profiles, ethnic flavours and reduced-sugar products.
• Identify gaps in the company’s portfolio.
• Commercial responsibility
• Prepare business plans and sales forecasts.
• Support pricing and profitability decisions.
• Manage project pipelines from customer brief → flavour development → application trial → approval → commercialization.

7 – There will be targets

Typical sweet-goods flavour categories

Biscuits/cookies

Butter, vanilla, milk, caramel

📌 Industry Manager – Sweet Goods Bakery and Confectionery (Bengaluru)
🏢 Bayfield Food Ingredients
📍 Bengaluru