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Sensory Scientist - Hackettstown, NJ-HAC03398
Description
Mars Chocolate North
America is looking for a Sensory
Scientist in Hackettstown,
NJ.
As a privately-held, family-owned company, Mars
North America offers benefits which reflect our commitment to
attracting and retaining great people. This includes excellent pay,
competitive health and dental care coverage, a retirement plan, a very
competitive vacation plan and unrivaled career advancement
opportunities, to name just a few of our unique and generous benefits.
If you're looking for a place where you can take
ownership for your work, where the pace is fast, the environment is
built around the importance of open communication, and where employees
are called "associates" and treated as such, then we want to hear from you.
The Sensory Scientist provides the technical
leadership and scientific expertise to effectively design and conduct
innovative sensory and consumer test protocols and analyze the research
data. The resulting recommendations from this analysis are used
to support projects that identify opportunities and diminish risks in
the product development process, in raw material usage and product
quality.
Key Responsibilities:
•Helps develop and implements sensory evaluation
and consumer digging and evaluating protocols that provide consumer
insight for the development of innovative product/package
designs.
•Develops analytical plan and analyzes complex
sets of sensory and consumer data to help develop design insight
•Trains and leads panel of highly skilled
descriptive panelists
•Assesses needs and develops protocols to ensure
descriptive or conformance panels maintain skill level and are
calibrated across panels
•Helps ensure the day to day quality of our
products through monitoring sensory characteristics of our brands at
all manufacturing sites
•Moderates focus groups.
•Leads or actively contributes to the Consumer
Centered Design Process.
•Collaborates with Market Research to provide
expertise on sensory evaluation and its link to consumer understanding
•Implements state-of-the-art sensory and consumer
evaluation methodologies.
•Planning horizon, project basis
•Identifies and executes the appropriate Sensory
and Consumer test methods to address R&D, Commercial and Supply
project objectives.
•Decides which analytical/statistical methods
should be used to properly analyze data
•Decides the most effective and efficient uses of
technical resources
•Decides when additional panel training is
required for project support and on-going panel calibration
•Recommends appropriate product prototypes for
Sensory evaluation
•Recommends appropriate product prototypes for
Consumer evaluation
•Recommends product, raw material, package and/or
process changes/improvements based on sensory and consumer analysis
•Recommends panel time requirements
•Recommends the disposition of “out of
conformance” product at plants sites
Key Functional
Skills/Knowledge:
•Skilled in applied knowledge of a variety of
sensory evaluation disciplines including Descriptive Analysis and
Discrimination Testing
•Skilled in applied knowledge of a variety of
consumer digging and evaluating methods
•Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data and
conduct the appropriate statistical testing
•Excellent Descriptive or Conformance Panel
leader
•Skilled in managing multiple projects at one
time
•Write clear, concise and actionable reports
based on complex data analysis.
•Work with a broad range of skills and
professions across the business
•Demonstrates passion and continuous curiosity
about consumer centered design
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
•Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or related field or Behavioral or
Social Science fields.
•2 years’ experience in various aspects of sensory evaluation and
consumer research (note: if 0-1 years’ experience, Master’s
Degree is required)
•Participation in sensory and/or consumer research and design
symposiums is highly preferred
•Coursework in statistics
•Successful Completion of a drug and background screen
Preferred Requirements:
•Advanced Degree
•3+ years’ experience in various aspects of sensory evaluation and
consumer research
•Demonstrated knowledge of Sensory Spectrum method.
•Internships in related fields
Company paid relocation is not available for this
role.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability
status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected
by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the
application process because of a disability, it is available upon
request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no
applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
Visit www.mars.com
to learn more about our company and for information about all of our
current openings. Please, no agencies.
Job
Research and Development
Primary Location
NA-USA-New Jersey
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