Senior Sensory Scientist

Requisition ID 50910
Position Type (US)Full Time
Career Function  Research and Development 
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Posting Type DNI

Leading to better encompasses all we do at Kerry, it's how we've become the worlds leading taste and nutrition company. Whether it's building and manufacturing sustainable solutions for food, beverage or pharmaceutical consumers, our commitment to lead the world to better nutrition drives us forward. With 24,000+ colleagues across the globe and 15,000+ Kerry products, your opportunities are limitless.

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

What will you do?

Provide technical expertise to plan and execute sensory testing to deliver results from more informed business decisions. The candidate should have experience with discrimination, descriptive, and consumer testing methods and ability to execute testing from planning to reporting. Role includes developing methodologies that integrate efficient and innovative techniques to manage internal and external projects. This includes staying current on new industry standards and ways of working. This role requires knowledge of advanced univariate and multivariate statistics to analyze and display sensory findings, with the ability to train junior members on the best statistical approaches and collaborate globally when developing standard analyses.

What will you need to be Successful??

This position requires a Master’s degree in Sensory Science, Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Science, Marketing science or related field plus. 3 years CPG/flavor experience, or a PhD in Sensory Science, Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Science, Marketing science or related field plus. 1 year of CPG/flavor experience. Preferred experience with innovation driven sensory techniques and with trained descriptive panels. Planning, executing, analyzing, and interpreting results of descriptive sensory analysis projects, including descriptive panel performance analysis. Consumer research testing by planning, executing, analyzing, and interpreting results of consumer studies including both quantitative and qualitative research, including managing the screening phase, questionnaire creation, test design, and utilizing statistical methods such as Analysis of Variance, Cluster Analysis, and Preference Mapping. Sensory discrimination testing by planning, executing discrimination sensory tests such as tetrad and triangle tests and analyzing data. Statistical analysis applied to sensory testing by utilizing Analysis of Variance, Principal Component Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Correlation Analysis, and Preference Mapping to analyze sensory data, and utilizing statistical tools to perform Descriptive Analysis panel performance analysis. Experience using sensory and statistical software's such as EyeQuestion, Compusense, XLSTAT to design tests, collect, and analyze data. Conducting research on specific topics and being familiar with writing and reviewing scientific papers that focus on sensory science.

Compensation Data

The typical hiring range for this role is $89,000 to $131,000 annually and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, location, etc. In addition to your pay, Kerry offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and retirement contribution (all benefits and incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).

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