Sensory Scientist

Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 4,000 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Jus-Rol, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that’s ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future. What your role is We are looking for a Sensory Scientist who will ensure that products are optimised, and the quality as designed delivers on the critical sensory design principles and the job for our brands. You will play a crucial role in partnering with teams to validate revolutionary technologies and products to develop meaningful solutions for the future. This role is part of the EUAU Experimentation Lab Team which partners with global and regional teams to accelerate growth with superior innovation and core growth initiatives. Are you keen to serve as an authority on sensory-based consumer research, effectively blend research with storytelling of insights, and partner with other functions to deliver outstanding learning plans? Collaborate with global team members on projects. Partner with Consumer Insights, Research and Development, Marketing, Packaging, Supply Chain, and other business and product teams to guide the optimization of new products, product improvements and protect product quality as designed. Drive projects through appropriate product and packaging consumer and sensory learning plans from optimization to confirmatory testing, including building foundational product knowledge, protecting product quality, and enhancing consumer understanding. Apply design of experiments to sensory and consumer testing. Facilitate consumer interactions to grow consumer empathy. Synthesize qualitative consumer learning and interpret statistical analysis of results of quantitative sensory and consumer testing. Champion product design and product quality as the sensory representative on business teams. Communicate key findings in a clearly and concisely and guide business teams in the product development process. Stay on top of industry trends and act as a mentor and coach to junior-level scientists and other staff. What you will bring to the team University degree in Food Science, Sensory, Consumer Science or related field 3+ years’ experience conducting primary sensory and consumer research in a corporate research, consulting, agency or relevant environment or capacity in an international environment Experience in Flavour Chemistry, Psychophysics, Marketing Research, Product Development, Stability Science or Statistics; in planning and executing sensory and/or consumer research in partnership with Product Design teams and/or Consumer Insights; in using advanced statistics and modeling to provide advanced analytic solutions to product and business teams, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms to uncover impactful insights from textual data Strong written and verbal communication; exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, and influence skills. Advanced knowledge of English - written and oral communication required. Ability to manage resources and leverage existing data to effectively lead multiple projects. Fundamental understanding of applied statistical analysis, including design of experiments and multivariate analysis techniques. This position requires some flexibility with working hours to support regional time zones and some travel will be required (about 20%) What you will get from us Flexible and employee-focused work culture Equal Employment opportunities Competitive package with benefits COMPANY OVERVIEW We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.