Senior Sensory & Consumer Specialist

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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.
Location

Vilvoorde, Belgium - Primary
Schiphol, Netherlands Job Purpose and Impact

As the ’Senior Sensory & Consumer Specialist’, 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 Director Sensory & Consumer Science EMEA and will advise on the strategy to implement S&CS to Cargill’s Specialized Nutrition and other businesses which are just being established.
In this exciting – new – position, you will be the single point of contact for the business group 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 within the EMEA region can be expected. Key Accountabilities

You will be dedicated to continuously interpret and link sensory and consumer related datasets and with the gained insights, you will enable our technical services, product and process as well as broad innovation teams to understand customer & consumer demand of today and tomorrow: Manage the development and/or maintenance of new, agile or alternative methods in complex sensory & consumer research set ups Analyze test panel and consumer test results 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 Other duties as assigned Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in the fields of Sensory & Consumer Science, Consumer Psychology or equivalent.
• Solid knowledge on interpretation of qualitative and quantitative sensory data and statistics for product development
• Minimum of six years of related work experience, preferable in FMCG
• Confirmed sensory and consumer science project management knowledge
• Excellent team-player with solid influencing skills

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD degree or other post-secondary degree in Food Science with strong emphasis in Sensory Science
• Capability of designing statistical tools and experimental design for result interpretation is a plus
• English fluent speaking and writing is a must, other languages are a plus

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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.

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