Associate Designer

Looking for a role that challenges you while making an impact on products people use every day? IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. Taste: Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success. The role is based in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. Be part of a motivated, passionate, and open-minded team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration. Where You’ll Make a Difference Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, and Work Safe Act requirements, proactively identifying, mitigating, and reporting safety risks, incidents, and near misses. Support product development projects from concept to commercialization in collaboration with senior designers, ensuring timely delivery and effective project management. Maintain accurate development records, project documentation, specifications, product costing, compliance data, and master data for traceability and knowledge management. Evaluate raw materials and ingredient suitability for product applications, ensuring alignment with technical, quality, and business requirements. Coordinate production trials, troubleshoot technical issues, and provide technical support to customers, key accounts, and commercial teams. Contribute to innovation projects and new product introductions through cross-functional collaboration and pilot development activities. Drive continuous improvement initiatives by optimizing formulations, reducing costs, standardizing products, managing risks, and improving time-to-market and customer experience. Support manufacturing operations through complaint resolution, production issue investigations, staff training, mentoring, and knowledge sharing. Promote sustainability, ethical business practices, cross-functional collaboration, and compliance with company policies while maintaining a professional and customer-focused approach. What Makes You the Right Fit University Degree, typically Food Technology or similar 1+ years in Product Development roles within food Manufacturing & commercial awareness Good understanding of Food Standards Australia New Zealand Clean, current NZ full Driver’s License Able to work as part of a team, leading when required and work in a global team of professionals Excellent written and oral communication skills. Communicates with clarity & has a high level of attention to detail Flexibility / adaptability Action oriented How Would You Stand Out? Logical, methodical, and analytical thought processes Proactive and self-motivation Accuracy and attention to details Why Choose Us? Professional onboarding process Multinational and supporting environment Training opportunities Learning and development programs from day one We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability. Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more