Scientist Foods CTI
About The Position
The North America Nutrition Business Unit (BU) in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey is looking for a consumer savvy scientist to join our Consumer Technical Insights (CTI) team to contribute to the success of our North America brands. CTI (Consumer Technical Insights) is an integral part of R&D, sitting at the interface between product design and marketing. Our purpose is to guide our brand and category design partners to create products that deliver to the consumer needs, with product experiences that delight consumers and cue desired benefits. We develop communications that are purposeful and extremely compelling. This is an exciting opportunity for a role designed to cover Insights and Consumer testing through a holistic approach and multiple touch points via consumer, sensory, claims and science skills. Joining our CTI team means working with a dedicated and ambitious team on the development of high impact innovation. We offer an agile and open-minded environment with strong, proactive, passionate thinkers who are constantly seeking to improve purpose in terms of brand, people, sustainability, technology & business growth. You will have a chance to collaborate with and guide multi-disciplinary teams and external partners to create products that consumers want and love.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Food Science, Data Science, Chemistry, Biology Science, Psychology or similar discipline preferred.
- 2+ years of experience in CTI/Claims (Consumer research, Sensory, Claims and Communication Development) (including internship) strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of Sensory Science, Consumer research, statistics/data modeling a plus
- Sensory & Consumer testing techniques along with Claim support and demo creation techniques experience.
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Basic appreciation of the design of a holistic consumer understanding plan for Innovation projects.
- Able to independently design consumer testing and analyze and interpret data with guidance on final conclusions.
- Provide insights as opposed to data.
- Possesses sound, basic appreciation of advanced testing including Pref mapping and modeling and when to apply.
- Understand how to translate CTI information into technical targets against which products can be designed (performance & attributes), developed and measured.
- Basic appreciation of qualitative methods with some applied usage of focus group and 1:1 interviews.
- Plan, implement, and evaluate research plan following UL global guidelines and within project budget.
- Ensures comprehensive understanding of purpose of testing, documented procedures, purpose, and data interpretation of results, conclusion, and insights.
- Independently executes projects with minimum complexity.
- Able to identify research needs, brief and manage research partners and lead discussions.
- Actively participate in and effectively conducts meetings with R&D, marketing and Consumer Market Insights (CMI).
- Negotiates timelines and deliverables with project team.
- Delivers aligned plan to CMI and to the project team.
Benefits
- health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage)
- retirement savings benefits
- life insurance
- disability benefits
- parental leave
- sick leave
- paid vacation
- paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
