Recipe Specialist

About the role

Recipe Specialists own a formula from the first bench trial to the batch that scales. You sit between the flavour houses that supply our ingredients and the plants that have to make the result reproducible, and you are the person who says whether a promising sample is actually manufacturable.

What you will do

• Design and run bench trials for new and reformulated beverages
• Brief flavour houses and evaluate what they send back
• Run stability, shelf-life and pack compatibility trials
• Document every iteration so Quality can reproduce it without you
• Present formulation trade-offs to brand and regulatory review

Your first 90 days

Weeks 1 to 4

You shadow two live projects, work through the formulation archive, and taste the current portfolio against its own specifications so you know what our reference actually tastes like.

Weeks 5 to 8

You take over a reformulation already in flight, usually a sugar reduction, and run the bench trials yourself while the outgoing owner is still in the building to argue with.

Weeks 9 to 12

You brief a flavour house directly, defend a formulation trade-off at regulatory review, and hand your documentation to Quality to reproduce without your help. That last handover is the real test.