Sensory Coordinator

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:

As Flavor Sensory Coordinator, you will be responsible for:

• Organizing the day-to-day
  raw material and Finished goods panel .
• Joining regular sensory testing.
• Selecting reference standard.
• Following the global guideline for Flavour
  sensory testing.
• Following the correct sensory descriptors, ranges and the
  scoring which are unique to different Flavours.
• Facilitate the
  atmosphere of respectful discussion when there are different sensory opinions.
• Ability to update the
  knowledge on continual basis  and
  co-ordinate with Regional QC on BCP Flavours.
• Good interpersonal
  skills to interact with flavorists  and
  seek their consensus when needed for sensory decision making.
• Run the sensory test
  for the QC team on regular basis and discuss the results with Regional QC for
  upgrading team knowledge.
• Support the production
  department and warehouse department to check the contamination and suggest
  remedial measures based on the type of contamination.

Qualifications:

• Chemistry graduate
  with 7 to 10 years' experience.
• Previous experience in
  sensory would be an added advantage for this position.
• Good sensory skills
  (both odour and tasting). This will be evaluated through a test.
• Strong knowledge of
  Flavour raw materials  and their
  identification by odour.
• Previous decision-making
  experience of Flavours ( liquid and powder) for the MNA/ Key customers
  preferred.
• Ability to make the
  decision during conflicting situations and convincing skills based on the
  evaluations.
• Open-minded, conscientious and strong decision
  maker.
• Good interpersonal and organizing skills.