Sr. Specialist - CTI, AMEA; Mars Snacking; Bangalore

Overview

Leads AMEA Consumer Technical Insights for the Cereal category, aligning sensory and consumer learning plans to ensure successful Innovation and Renovation launches across nine business units in the region (Australia, Japan, Korea, India, SEA, South Africa, Turkey and Egypt).

What you'll do

• Partner with cross-functional product development teams (product development, marketing, marketing research, statistics, quality assurance, manufacturing and other CTI scientists) to meet project goals.
• Develop customized research plans to meet objectives, conduct research, and report and interpret results.
• Mentor junior CTI scientists.
• Develop and align complex research plans, execute studies, interpret data, and report results to a variety of stakeholders.
• Use risk-based assessments to design learning plans including descriptive analysis, discrimination testing, consumer research and shelf-life research based in statistical design.
• Partner with CTI staff to guide the development and implementation of new testing methodologies and research opportunities.
• Provide technical recommendations based on knowledge of consumer psychology and behavioural science, food chemistry, packaging, statistics and product development as applied to sensory and consumer research.
• Keep current with advancements in sensory and consumer research, ingredient technology and food science.
• Translate consumer insights into technical briefs for new products that drive user experience superiority and top-line revenue growth.
• Apply psychometric, statistical and other sensory methodologies to support reliable business decisions and competitive advantage.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Sensory Science, Food Science, Consumer Science, Psychology, Statistics, or a related discipline.
• Typically 5+ years of relevant R&D, technical, manufacturing, or innovation experience (Master's 3+ years).

Nice to have

• Master's degree or equivalent experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Estimated travel: 20%.