Job Description: Design and drive sensory and consumer understanding activities to ensure innovation and renovation meets consumer expectation on the product experience, working in close collaboration with cross functional teams and strategic partners. Build category product insights to inspire and influence the I&R pipeline and business strategies. Continuously seek for improving practices and promote agile research. Job Responsibilities: Manage studies: plan, design, then analyze and present results in line with best practices and with impact to the cross-functional team and business partners. Play an active part in cross-functional project teams, from front-end innovation until launch. Ensure CSI knowledge is transferred to the industrialization stage, guiding the set-up of the consumer-centric sensory specifications. Build sensory & consumer preference knowledge on product experience and translate into actionable insights: Manage and execute consumer and sensory research studies with excellence: Define clear and time-bounded plans and prioritize resources available. Partner pro-actively with Project Managers and help define questions and outcomes from consumer and sensory insight support to add value and influence project's success. Act as subject matter expert and guide on choice and use of sensory evaluation and consumer methodologies. Build and leverage knowledge to identify new opportunities and guide strategy. Support Product and Process Mastership to better understand the effect of recipe and process parameters on sensory attributes and consumer acceptance. Job Requirements: Experience in consumer-packaged goods, from R&D and business side is a plus Advanced degree (Master or higher degree preferred) on Sensory Science, Consumer Science, Marketing Research, Food Technology, Food Science or other related fields Experience in marketing research with exposure to a variety of consumer testing techniques is a plus Min. 5 years of experience in a wide range of sensory analysis and consumer product testing techniques and their applications Job Details: Company: Nestlé Vacancy Type: Full Time Job Location: Solon, OH, US Application Deadline: N/A Apply Here instantcareers.net
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