Senior Scientist, Consumer Science

Kenvue•Summit, NJ

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Scientist will work within Kenvue’s Consumer Science team as part of an end-to-end R&D organization, supporting product development and upstream innovation. The role supports multiple self-care brands, including TYLENOL®, MOTRIN®, ZYRTEC®, BENADRYL®, and ZARBEES®, and helps foster a consumer-centric culture across R&D through consumer empathy, communication, and cross-functional collaboration. The position applies traditional and innovative consumer research approaches, including agile digital research tools, data science, advanced analytics, and modeling techniques. The Senior Scientist develops and carries out research plans, translates findings into actionable recommendations, and communicates insights to project teams. The role is based in Summit, New Jersey, with a hybrid work arrangement, and reports to the Sr. Manager Consumer Science Selfcare NA.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years, Master’s degree and 1–2+ years, or PhD degree and 0+ years of industry experience in qualitative and quantitative research.
Relevant experience in Consumer Science, Consumer Technical Insights, Sensory Science, Food Science, Psychology, Consumer Behavior, or Market Research.
Experience with a broad range of consumer research, including product and concept testing, quantitative and qualitative research, product benchmarking, and drivers of liking.
Experience documenting, visualizing, and interpreting data.
Strong analytical thinking and communication skills, including comfort presenting data and recommendations to key stakeholders.
Highly collaborative, with the ability to work within Consumer Science and cross-functionally with R&D and business partners, including Design and Insights.

Nice To Haves

Experience in consumer behavior science and/or data science.
Experience using digital consumer science tools.

Responsibilities

Apply Design Thinking principles to understand consumer needs, aspirations, and motivations and support end-to-end innovation projects and programs from exploration through validation.
Identify and pilot new research approaches and methodologies, including those leveraging data science, advanced analytics, and AI where appropriate.
Design and execute Learning Plans with cross-functional partners in Marketing, Insights, Design, and Formulation to address project needs and consumer questions.
Design and execute exploratory qualitative and quantitative research, product design and optimization research, benchmarking studies, and consumer-perceived claims validation studies.
Communicate consumer insights and actionable recommendations to cross-functional teams using storytelling and data visualization.
Participate in analysis and interpretation of research results and communicate findings to project teams.
Participate in the Global Consumer Science community of practice to support a consumer-centric culture in R&D.
Ensure activities comply with high ethical and quality standards and applicable policies and procedures.