The person who turns ambitious drinks concepts into liquid reality!

Our client is a growing drinks business working across premium alcoholic, alcohol-free and emerging beverage categories, supporting both ambitious brands and established drinks companies.

This isn't a bench formulation role. It's a creative and technical position where you'll take a brief — sometimes loose, feeling-led or commercially driven — and turn it into a viable liquid that works at scale without losing what made it special.

You'll work directly with clients, own projects from initial brief through to production, and bring together formulation, technical, regulatory and manufacturing expertise to get the right product over the line.

What you'll do:

• Translate creative concepts and consumer needs into technically strong, commercially viable formulations across alcoholic, non-alcoholic and functional categories
• Own technical projects independently — managing timelines, client communication and delivery
• Act as a trusted technical advisor who can challenge and develop client thinking, rather than simply execute a brief
• Navigate regulatory requirements across UK, EU and US markets
• Manage relationships with suppliers and manufacturing partners, including factory visits, audits and pilot-scale trials
• Keep up to date with emerging ingredients, technologies and processing techniques
• Build and maintain a strong external network across suppliers, manufacturers and technical specialists