Flavor Scientist

Flavor Scientist
Location: Howell, NJ 

Onsite 


We are partnering on a confidential search for an innovative Flavor Scientist to join a rapidly growing nutraceutical product development and manufacturing organization supporting leading wellness and supplement brands across North America.

This is a highly visible R&D opportunity for someone passionate about flavor chemistry, sensory science, and creating differentiated nutritional products that consumers actually enjoy using.

The Opportunity:

You will lead flavor development and taste optimization initiatives across a wide range of nutraceutical delivery systems including powders, chewables, tablets, and encapsulated products. This role sits at the intersection of flavor innovation, formulation science, sensory evaluation, and commercialization.

The ideal candidate brings both technical depth and creative problem-solving — someone who understands how to overcome bitterness, off-notes, and challenging active ingredients while maintaining clean-label, scalable, and consumer-friendly formulations.

What You’ll Own:

• Develop and optimize custom flavor systems for nutraceutical and dietary supplement products

• Lead taste-masking strategies for vitamins, minerals, botanicals, herbs, and specialty actives

• Conduct sensory evaluations, stability testing, and application development within dry-blend systems

• Partner cross-functionally with formulation, manufacturing, QA, and commercial teams from concept through commercialization

• Evaluate flavor technologies, sweetener systems, and emerging ingredient trends to drive innovation

• Support customer-facing projects, prototypes, and technical recommendations

Ideal Background:

• 5+ years of experience in flavor chemistry, flavor applications, formulation science, or sensory development

• Experience within nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, functional foods, beverage powders, or related categories

• Strong understanding of taste modulation, sweetness optimization, and sensory balancing

• Experience working with powders, tablets, chewables, or encapsulated systems strongly preferred

• Knowledge of cGMP, FDA, DSHEA, and ingredient compliance standards

Highly Preferred:

• Flavor house or flavor applications experience

• Taste-masking expertise within supplement systems

• Experience scaling products from benchtop through production

• Certified Flavor Chemist (or progress toward certification)

This organization offers:

• Significant product innovation exposure

• High-impact technical ownership

• Fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

• Strong long-term growth trajectory

• Opportunity to influence next-generation wellness products

MOHR Talent is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other protected status. If you believe you have been discriminated against or have concerns about our compliance, please contact our Human Resources department at hr@themohrgrp.com