Sensory Scientist II

4 days ago

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States General Mills Full time

Job Description:

OVERVIEW

The Sensory Scientist II provides strategic product guidance to optimize the total product experience through smart Sensory Design while safeguarding the critical design principles and the job to be done.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • 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, inclusive of building foundational product knowledge, protecting product quality, and enhancing consumer understanding.
  • Facilitates consumer interactions to grow consumer empathy
  • Courageously champion product design and product quality as the sensory representative on business teams
  • Collaborate with global team members on global initiatives for the platform
  • Apply the design of experiments to sensory and consumer testing
  • Synthesize qualitative consumer learning and interpret statistical analysis of results of quantitative sensory and consumer testing
  • Communicate key findings in a relevant and easy-to-understand manner and guide business teams to next steps in the product development process

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master's Degree with a focus/emphasis in Sensory Science, Psychology, Statistics, or related field (i.e., Behavioral Science, Data Science, Experimental Psychology, Consumer Experience, or Human Factors) and 2+ years of experience in leading consumer research
  • Experience planning and executing sensory and/or consumer research in partnership with R&D, Consumer Insights and product design teams
  • Exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, and influence skills with technical and business-facing teams
  • Strong technical and analytical skills, and a passion for learning and developing new research methodologies
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage resources and leverage existing data to effectively lead multiple projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD in Sensory Science, Psychology, Statistics, or related field (i.e., Behavioral Science, Data Science, Experimental Psychology, Consumer Experience or Human Factors)
  • Fundamental understanding of applied statistical analysis, including design of experiments and multivariate analysis techniques.
  • Strong sensory science technical skills, including a fundamental understanding of human perception and psychophysics.
  • Experience working with a cross-functional team, consumers, and customers.
  • Experience in using advanced statistics to provide advanced analytic solutions to product and business teams.
  • Ability to translate strategy into action, using knowledge of current business process & practices and evolving technology & data.
  • Strong data science skills with ability to communicate and simplify complex data analysis into actionable, easy to understand insights.
  • Experience in computational and predictive modeling.
  • Experience in using GenAI and/or machine learning algorithms to uncover impactful insights from textual data or create process/work efficiencies to create greater capacity.

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

  • Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis, and General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.
  • This role is open to relocation, but international relocation and remote assignments will not be considered.

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.

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