Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

As the “Sensory & Consumer Experience Designer”, you will be part of the growing Sensory & Consumer Expertise Department, today represented by more than 30 scientists worldwide. You will be reporting directly to the Sensory & Consumer Science Director and will advise on the strategy to implement Sensory & Consumer Science to core businesses of Cargill with growth potential.

In this exciting – new – position, you will be the single point of contact for the business groups when it comes to strengthening our capabilities and implementing most agile tools to discover what really matters for our customer and the consumer to whom our customer sells its products. Your daily job will be dynamic, and it is expected that you communicate needs and results with confidence to senior management and get our joined goals accomplished by teaming up with our factory, product development, application or sales teams. Regular travels to different Cargill sites as well as to guide fieldwork with agencies can be expected.

You will be dedicated to continuously interpret and link sensory and consumer related datasets and with the gained insights, you will be pro-active to enable our category teams, technical services, product and process as well as broader innovation teams to understand customer & consumer demand of today and tomorrow. It is expected that you drive innovation and inject sensory and consumer science to our category teams.

You will develop sensory & consumer knowledge for Cargill relevant growth categories, investigate GLOBAL insights, cooperate with global research design, implement and transfer these insights into product development, play as role of Sensory & Consumer Experience Designer.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the development and/or maintenance of new, agile or alternative methods in complex sensory & consumer research set ups

• Interpret data analyzed by our panel teams and consumer test results from 3rd parties

• Design, conduct and deliver reports on sensory research with clear take outs for technical and/or marketing and/or project teams.

• Ability to present study results confidently to divers teams and/or stakeholders and/or customers

• Continuous Sensory & Consumer methodology scouting and advice to management

• Implement trainings to and/or with colleagues in the fields of sensory and consumer science

• Ensure the right amount of sensory and consumer knowledge management tools are continuously integrated

• Demonstrates a high level of accountability and self-direction but knows when to escalate

• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in the fields of Sensory & Consumer Science, Consumer Psychology or equivalent

• Minimum of four years of related work experience

• Fluent level of English

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or above) or other post-secondary degree in Food Science with strong emphasis in Sensory Science

• Solid knowledge on interpretation of qualitative and quantitative sensory data and statistics for product development

• Minimum of 10 years of related work experience, preferable in FMCG

• People management experience

• Confirmed sensory and consumer science project management knowledge

• Excellent team-player with solid influencing skills and a can do it mentality

• Capability of designing statistical tools and experimental design for result interpretation is a plus

• Other languages are a plus

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:

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