Passionate to sensory and consumer research

Company: SAM International
Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Sound, sight, smell, taste and feel of success ...

… our business philosophy is to show, how a perfect product should be composed. Based on the collaboration with us, our customers are achieving sustainable success in their target markets. We research the ideal sensory experience appealing to specific target groups and guide our customers to success.

Our fascinating and varied field of work incorporates consumer goods-related sectors (food, bever-age, cosmetics, body care etc.) and all commercially relevant markets worldwide. We have offices in Hamburg, Munich, Paris, Milan and Zurich and a global network of partners. Good taste is our daily mission worldwide.

With over 20 years’ experience and a highly motivated team, we want to achieve more. We are looking for a competent and committed team member in customer service, consulting and project management. You will join the team at the Munich-based headquarters and help drive forward the group’s growth and internationalization.

You will be our new team member, if you fulfil the following roles with pleasure and enthusiasm:

• Project-related support and consulting of our clients in all aspects of sensory and consumer research of the market- and marketing relevant product-portfolio of SAM
• Development of test-design, calculation and transforming into proposals.
• Project leadership and project coordination
• Statistical analysis of raw data and visualizing of the results
• Writing project reports and presenting of reports with the client.
• Supporting in acquisition of new client.
• Supporting developing innovative solutions and test designs for our clients.

We are looking for a communicative, top-performing project manager able to work under pressure. We expect a university degree in food processing, statistics or economics. Previous experience in the consumer goods industry is desirable. Applicants should have experience and skills in project management and acquisition.

Excellent negotiating skills in French, German, and English are essential. Fluency in other lan-guages (English or Italian) is also beneficial.

You will join a young team attaining excellent results and located in Zurich.

Please contact or send your resume to

 Thomas Alex

tel: +41 44 439 70 49

SAM Sensory and Marketing International GmbH, Branch Zurich
Thomas Alex - Albulastrasse 57 - CH-8048 Zurich
 www.samresearch.com

Company: Fimenich
Location: Southall, Middlesex, UK

The Perfumery Division is currently looking for a Senior Sensory Manager - Perfumery for our Global Sensory team in our new facility in London, UK.  Working with our Global Sensory Director, you will be responsible for increasing awareness of our London activities and capabilities within the Perfumery Division, the quality and depth of our output and the management, coaching and development of others in the Sensory team.

Job Responsibility

• Manage the day-to-day sensory activity of the London facility.  
• Proactively develop, promote and lead the cross-category sensory programme to support fragrance development, applied technology and sales.  Ensure the sensory team conducts research reliably and efficiently, provides actionable information, and provides sound interpretation and recommendations.
• Proactively develop protocols, methods and tools to improve the evaluation of products.
• Optimize the effectiveness of the sensory resources to ensure high quality information for Firmenich internal and external customers.
• Where appropriate, liaise with clients’ sensory research groups to maximize the effectiveness of research conducted by Firmenich and by the client, and present sensory understanding and fragrance test results to clients in order to help win business.
• Help to develop proactive programs and help to coordinate global projects.                                                                                                        
• Advanced analysis, interpretation and reporting of the findings of sensory tests as appropriate, incorporating knowledge management principles to ensure effective data management and interpretation.  
• Advise on best use of statistical tools, where appropriate

Profile

• A solid background in Sensory/ Consumer Science and a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field with a Sensory/ Consumer Science focus.
• At least ten years experience in a sensory/ consumer research role.  Previous experience in the fragrance industry is an advantage
• Excellent interpersonal and communication/ presentation skills
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• 5-10 years of successful track record of people management in a team environment
• Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy.
• Expertise in a broad range of sensory techniques and advanced statistical knowledge.
• Ability to follow through sensory initiatives
• Excellent team working and client interaction skills.

Closing date for applications: 29th February 2012.

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to  Naomi White

Company: CSIRO
Location: Sydney, NSW

Are you looking to make a difference?
Be at the forefront of Sensory Science research
Work for Australia’s premier research and Science organisation

CSIRO is seeking to make an important appointment of a Senior Research Scientist with an excellent reputation in Sensory Science. The position is within CSIRO’s Sensory and Consumer Science Team, within the Behaviour and Sensory Sciences Research Group, which has capability and facilities to research flavour and texture perception, consumer food acceptance and food choice, with an emphasis on eating behaviours.

The capability is focused on understanding lifestyle behaviours, the sensory properties of foods and factors that lead to food choice, acceptance, intake, and enjoyment, and how these interact with lifestyle and health. To use this knowledge to guide new food product development and to evaluate diet and lifestyle intervention programs. Our ultimate goal is to undertake science which will inform the public and private sector on strategies which may increase the health and wellbeing of Australians and decrease health costs.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Formulate, plan and conduct sensory science research, with an emphasis on innovative approaches, which will lead to scientific achievements that are consistent with CSIRO organisational goals.
• Anticipate industry and public health / community needs through client liaison and networking.
• Work with the Sensory and Consumer Science Team to implement strategies to maintain and develop leading edge science capability.

Salary: $99K to $132K (plus up to 15.4% superannuation)

Tenure: Indefinite

Ref No: IA11/00010

To be successful, you will have:

• A PhD in Food Science, Sensory Science, or Psychology, with several years experience in underpinning and / or applied sensory science and consumer science research.
• Proven people and project leadership and management experience.
• Demonstrated a considerable degree of originality / creativity and innovation in solving problems and in introducing new directions and approaches.

About the Division:
CSIRO’s Food and Nutritional Sciences is unique in being able to work on food-related issues across a spectrum of areas from food production on farms, its processing and manufacture and its relationship to health and nutrition. This Division delivers sciences to a range of large-scale projects, many of which fall within the two flagships: Food Futures and Preventative Health.

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Company: Unilever
Location: Colworth, UK

• Permanent / Full Time
• Competitive Salary depending on experience plus UL benefits.

Background:

Few foods are guaranteed to put a smile on people's faces like ice cream.  Unilever is the world's biggest ice cream manufacturer, with iconic brands like Magnum, Cornetto, B&J and the Heartbrand, which operates under different names in different markets (Wall's in the UK and most parts of Asia, Algida in Italy and Kibon in Brazil). Science and technology plays a key part in the ice cream strategy to deliver superior product experiences with enduring impact and quality globally.

The role of Consumer & Technical Insight (CTI) is to act as the link between consumers and the products they use, providing insight and guidance to Research & Development (R&D) in order to ensure the category delivers outstanding products and claims for the Ice Cream brands. This CTI Technologist role will help to lead the regional (European) CTI programme support and help drive the claims agenda across the global programme.

Main Job Purpose

The key job role is to work closely with R&D and Marketing to help shape and deliver the Ice Cream category ambition. This will involve working closely with the CTI Director and CTI Managers in order to:

• Help define and deliver the CTI research programme for the European region to identify new sources of competitive advantage for the category.
• Partner seamlessly with the European Brand and Consumer Market Insight (CMI) teams to develop and execute integrated consumer research plans for innovation/renovation projects.
• Develop product stories for several key projects, ensuring that we maximise the consumer claims opportunities from our science and innovation, and drive claims excellence in the category

Key Accountabilities:

Europe Programme Delivery

Partner seamlessly with the regional CMI team and global CTI team to develop and execute integrated consumer research plans for innovation/renovation projects (target definition, qualitative and quantitative early stage consumer evaluation of product/ pack prototypes and sensory measurement).  

• Work with CTI Manager to help define and deliver Europe regional understanding and evaluation support. This includes original research and mining knowledge from multiple sources and translating these into actionable targets for R&D.
• Help implement global ice cream CTI research plan where Europe is lead region.
• Support regional implementation of global plan to benchmark product performance vs competitors.
• Advise on regional CTI budget needs and resources and help to track regional spending.

Together with Technical Project Leaders, Nutrition, Legal and Regulatory, play an active role in crafting outstanding  claims about our ice cream products, and ensuring robust consumer and/or sensory evidence is in place to substantiate them where relevant.  Act as CTI claims expert in European projects.

Driving the Claims Agenda globally

With the global CTI team help to champion best practice for claims capability and culture in ice cream.  Help the CTI Director and Managers with Marketing to build a long-term strategy for credible claims communication that is based on scientific evidence and resonates with consumers.

• Champion the claims process through working closely with category partners in R&D, brand, CMI, legal and regulatory to develop compelling and ambitious product stories for ice cream  
• Help shape and build ice cream interest and capability through building a database of relevant claims for inspiration and reference.

Regional Capability Development

• As a member of the regional cross-category CTI network, actively contribute to the CTI capability development agenda for the region.
• Champion the ice cream R&D Consumer Connect programme for the region to ensure the consumers’ voice lies at the heart of the R&D programme.

General

As a member of the CTI team, the job holder will be expected to integrate fully into the activities of the CTI team to embed the behaviours required to support the CTI vision.

Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications:

This role would be suited to either a graduate with a developed interest in Consumer Insight and research or candidates with relevant industry experience. The successful candidate will have a willingness to learn that can demonstrate their enthusiasm to grow their career within our organisation.

Relevant experience

• Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant field with some knowledge of R&D, consumer research, marketing or claims
• Excellent communication skills to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences
• The ability to communicate and build effective working relationships across functions, regions and with partners inside and outside Unilever.
• The ability to work independently to drive projects
• Creativity in respect to developing new ideas and ways to communicate product claims to consumers  
• Project Planning and  Information Management
• Strong organisation skills
• The ability to work across a number of projects simultaneously
• A degree in Science, social or applied science or equivalent experience in capability field.

Competencies:

Global Mindset
Real Accountability
External Orientation
Action not Debate


Unilever Statement:

We are Unilever. We work to create a better future everyday.
We help people look good, feel good and get more out of life with brands and service that are good for them and good for others.
We will inspire people to take small everyday actions that can add up to a big difference for the world.
We will develop new ways of doing business that will allow us to double the size of the company while reducing our environmental impacts.

To Apply:

Please follow the  link to our careers page, search on the job title, create a profile and apply.

Candidates who have applied can access their status update through the candidate tracking link or, for any additional queries, by contacting the Recruitment hotline number on 0800 0284390.

Company: Mars Petcare
Location: Verden, Germany


Mars Petcare, based in the north of Germany, is looking for a Senior Sensory & Consumer Scientist with > 5 years experience. Please contact us if you look for a new challenge and love to work in sensory in an international team.

Main responsibilities:

Lead European MARS petcare sensory capability:

• Accountable of sensory panel quality
• Interface between MARS & Sensory agencies (responsible of sensory project planning, budget & invoice management)
• R&D sensory key contact (sensory request management, sensory report management, sensory knowledge management)

Provide research design recommendation in sensory & consumer science to R&D

• Support actively R&D associates in designing sensory & consumer research

Sensory & consumer science expert of MARS Petcare R&D

• New sensory & consumer science methodology scouting (conference active participation, large sensory network)
• Responsible of scientific sensory communication (digital sensory network leader, presentations in international conferences such as Pangborn)

Responsible of big and sophisticated sensory & consumer science projects in order to generate key sensory & consumer insights for the business

• Leader of Sensory & consumer science projects which combine state of the art sensory & consumer methodologies
• In-depth sensory market understanding
• Identify actionable consumer insights for the business to support product optimization 

Necessary education (e.g.: business related or technical apprenticeship, accountant etc):

• University degree in Sensory Science, Consumer Science, Psychology or related fields

 
Required skills (e.g.: SAP-knowledge etc)

• Numeracy & relevant IT Skills (MS Office, C5, Fizz, Stat packages like R, Minitab, SPSS, SAS)

Presentation Skills

• Fluent in English

Required  job experience (e.g.:  5 years)

• Relevant (5 years +) experience in Sensory & Consumer Science including professional
• placements during academic studies

Contact: 
 Dr. Dag Piper
Product Science & Design, Mars GmbH
T: +49 42 31 94 42 26, M: +49 16 22 44 86 64
F: +49 42 31 94 46 50

Company: FROMAGERIES BEL
Location: Vendôme, France

The FROMAGERIES BEL group is one of the leading European and world cheese manufacturer (turnover: app. 2 billions Euros/y) and produces world-renowned products such as "La Vache qui Rit" (the Laughing Cow) process cheese, "Kiri”, "Babybel", "Boursin" or “Leerdammer”.

Mission:
Acting within the Research Direction of the Company in the Sensory & Food Science team, thanks to the skills and expertise brought by education and professional experience, he will be able to:

• Be a sensory expert toward marketing and R&D departments
• Manage and initiate research projects on sensory perception and new sensory analysis tools. These projects may be through an institutional partnership.
• Collaborate in technology oriented projects aiming at linking structure and flavour component analysis to sensory perception.
• Manage the sensory local team (1 technician (in charge of the 4 expert panels +2/ apprentices).
• Work closely with market research in order to better understand consumer liking in term of sensory expectations enabling us a better coverage of the sensory mapping of our core brand products and its relation with liking
• Promote up-to-date scientific and technical intelligence on various topics related to sensory science, especially by contacts and collaborations with scientific organisations.

Curriculum Profile:
PhD or master in Food Science with a significant experience (2 years) in sensory analysis and research either through doctoral thesis project or through a previous experience in food industry or inter-professional applied research structure. Candidate should be English speaking. Mobility for short time mission in France and abroad.

Personal profile:
Apart from the scientific abilities described above the candidate should be curious, innovative, practical, and must have a good communication potential.

Location
The position is based in Vendôme (in the nearby of the Loire valley, 42' of Paris by train).

Contact
For any further information, please  contact us by email
For direct appliance please go to  Bel's website