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The key task is to enable the profitable growth of the core by maintaining holistic product superiority, while at same time stretching into new, faster growing markets segments to create a base for superior future core. As the Consumer Technical Insights, you will be working within multi-disciplinary project teams to provide consumer and sensory insights that ensure the delivery of outstanding innovations & renovations focused on solving consumers' problems and providing superior solutions.
Job Responsibility:
Be the guardian of consumer insights and requirements - meaning to proactively bring in consumer insights and requirements and convert them into R&D actions and deliverables
Partnering seamlessly with CMI to deliver consumer, market and product insights help guiding project teams to consumer pains and gains and build superior solutions to the problems identified, with clearly identified technical requirements and attributes
In collaboration with CMI and RD, designing and implementing E2E consumer research to assess the performance of product/pack prototypes on the key attributes/benefits of the brand concept
Designing of sensory measurement studies to provide objective quantitative measures of product/pack attributes against technical targets and competitor benchmarks
Providing robust data from consumer research or sensory measurements to support patents and claims to make a compelling story
Keeping abreast of internal and external developments in consumer research techniques and sensory evaluation methodology and applying knowledge within innovation projects to enhance decision making
Support experimental design and statistical analyses to maximise the quality of consumer and sensory research
CTI researchers are required to lead all activities with minimum line manager’s supervision. This includes also challenging and clarifying briefs as necessary to ensure right things to do and identifying end-to-end plan for each
CTI researchers are responsible for making sure that data, reports, documents are stored and easily accessible by all relevant parties
CTI researchers will have contact with stakeholders both inside and outside of RD on a regular basis
Having full knowledge of professional codes of conduct (ethics, data protection laws etc.) and ensuring that all our research practices adhere to these, including full compliance with safety and ethical standards for product testing
Requirements:
At least bachelor’s degree in science, consumer science, sensory science, marketing
An experience in an FMCG company consumer insight role (CTI, CMI) or Market Research agency is a plus
High English proficiency (read, write, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills)
Fully operational in consumer and sensory research techniques (qual and quant)
Good management skills, good teamwork attitude, good interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively in a cross-cultural setting
Experience within Food and Refreshment categories with proven track record within R&D is desirable
Passion to combine science, sensory and consumer science / insights to drive innovation and claims, as well as product development skills and data science skills to help bring products to launch
Nice to have:
An experience in an FMCG company consumer insight role (CTI, CMI) or Market Research agency is a plus
Experience within Food and Refreshment categories with proven track record within R&D is desirable