Ladder check · R&D
Sensory & Consumer Science Manager
Senior professional to head-of: leads sensory and consumer research for a category or technical centre, usually with a small team
Leads the sensory and consumer research programme that tells R&D and marketing what consumers perceive and prefer: trained panels, descriptive and discrimination testing, consumer acceptance and preference studies, and the translation of results into product targets and claims. Success is judged on product decisions made on evidence rather than opinion, superiority and parity claims that hold, and a research programme the business trusts and uses early.
8 of the role's 18 target skills, the ones that weigh most
Sensory & Consumer Testing
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