Global Flavour Application Lead
Zurich
Full-time
Permanent employee
Role description
As Global Flavour Application Lead, you will connect global flavour strategy with practical application work across Switzerland, Germany, the UAE and the USA. You will set shared standards, coach application technologists and help teams focus on the most important customer and category priorities. This role gives you the opportunity to build clearer structures, improve cross-site collaboration and shape scalable ways of working that support innovation, quality and growth.
Your Mission
- Lead the Swiss application lab hands-on.
- Set global application standards, templates, evaluation principles, and best-practice playbooks across Germany, UAE, and USA.
- Translate global flavour and category priorities into application roadmaps, focus topics, and yearly capability plans.
- Guide key application projects by challenging unclear briefs, supporting prioritisation, and helping teams resolve critical technical issues.
- Coach application technologists, identify skill gaps, coordinate training, and strengthen shared ways of working across sites.
- Create mechanisms for cross-site learning, case sharing, formulation learnings, and reusable application solutions.
- Align global research and development, regional application teams, category leaders, and relevant commercial partners on professional application matters.
- Escalate risks, delays, quality concerns, or unclear ownership early and help clarify next steps, owners, and timelines.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in food science, food technology, flavour chemistry, chemistry, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in flavour application, food product development or technical application in a business-to-business food or flavour environment.
- Experience guiding cross-functional or cross-site technical projects through influence, coaching and stakeholder alignment.
- Strong English communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Willingness to collaborate internationally and travel when required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience setting technical standards, application methods or best-practice frameworks.
- Knowledge of sensory evaluation, application trials and recommendation quality in flavour or food-application work.
- Strong prioritisation and follow-through skills that turn discussions into decisions and actions.
- Experience building training plans, communities of practice or knowledge-sharing routines across locations.
- Ability to build trust with regional, research and development, category and commercial teams.
- Structured, solution-oriented working style with attention to quality and continuous improvement.
Why you'll love working here
- Responsibility from day one in an internationally operating, growing family business with flat hierarchies
- Annual 360° feedback loops with clear promotion criteria and an individual career path
- Flexible working hours, from a modern office overlooking Lake Zürich, incl. showers and lockers
- Regular company events and team activities
- Monthly savings on everyday expenses through the Swibeco platform – from fitness and food to travel and tech
- Free “Halbtax” travelcard, and free language courses
- Subsidised lunch at the neighbouring cantine, and free drinks and snacks at the office
About us
At Arethia, we fuse our long-standing reputation with a continual push for progress. A rapidly expanding player in the flavour industry, Arethia specialises in delivering innovative taste solutions and co-creating products that consumers love. For more than 70 years, Arethia has been known for its close collaboration with customers and the highest quality standards. With over 350 employees spread across Germany, Switzerland, Dubai, and Indonesia, we aim to shape the future of flavours with a culture that values agility, transparency, and talent.