Principal Scientist

at  International Flavors Fragrances

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• PhD with minimum 9 years or equivalent experience in related industrial role.
• Sufficient time in previous role to demonstrate mastery of responsibilities with documented significant contributions.

SKILLS:

• Seaweeds Scientific expertise.
• Technical problem solving.
• Project development, project management, and stakeholder management.
• Customer interaction.
• Written and oral English communication to document results, drive for decision making with stakeholders, and propose new project ideas.
• IP technology assessment.
• Self-motivated, independent drive, and global network collaboration.
• Strategic mindset and thinking.

Leadership

• Builds and leads motivated teams of both direct and functional reports, integrates diverse talents, and fosters team members to excel and achieve breakthrough results.
• Manages large projects, programs, or initiatives across organizations. Leads resource and research planning, monitors execution to accomplish goals, and communicates impact and consequences of significant changes to stakeholders.
• Acts as SME consultant to overall R&D, business partners, and customers in area of Seaweeds expertise and technology strategy.
• Engages team, stakeholders and leadership in planning and achieving strategic focus objectives.
• Mentors and behaves as role model to all levels within the organization.

Customer engagement

• Leads external customer collaborations in relevant projects and is recognized by our global customers as SME through engagement on customer-related matters.
• Engages internal and external stakeholders to define market opportunities, develops research strategy accordingly, and gains agreement for ultimate plan.

Innovation & technology

• Main contributor to development of new, executable concepts aligned with key business strategy and anchored in our overall IFF Sustainability goals.
• Generates and champions breakthrough technologies with significant commercial impact on IFF and anchored in our overall IFF Sustainability goals.
• Seeks to continuously improve individual and team expertise to ensure IFF’s leading-edge position in science & technology.
• Contributes to external scientific literature and conferences via peer reviewed papers, presentations, and patents.
• Provides scientific reports and perspectives to influence global strategic technology decisions.