Consumer Technical Insight Scientist

: Consumer Technical Insights Scientist – Unilever Food Solutions**Location**: Englewood Cliff, NJ Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €3bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growthobjectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to operators across 72 countries.UFS prides itself on creating value for its customers through culinary solutions and improving the food experience foreveryone from distributors and operators to diners and consumers. . Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. **Benefits**: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents **Purpose of the Job**Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business, better world and improving everyday living. If you are a food enthusiast and have a strong passion for developing, executing and driving consumer technical insight (CTI)/Product Research and sensory evaluation program, this role is perfect for you to drive your career passion. This position will include but not limited to leveraging global and regional market and product insight, science/technology facts to deliver the unmissable superiority in product, packaging and proposition. This role would include strong partnership with your cross functional team to deliver the brand’s program and business objectives. **Who You Are & What You’ll Do****You’re a changemaker**: Ability to identify and address emerging issues as well as set and manage priorities and continuously improve Consumer Insight Technical CTI (Product Research) process and practices. : The position requires application of technical knowledge some scientific methodologies to drive design of experiments for various projects.**Key Responsibilities**A key responsibility in a strong Consumer Technical Insight (CTI) role is to serve as the connective thread between consumer (chef/operator) needs, technical expertise, and business strategy, working across US partners in marketing, CMI and R&D. This means: Develop and execute consumer technical test plan including sensory or consumer product and packaging testing to identify targets for designing superior products and evaluation of their delivery. Story telling – lead and co-author strategic KBS (Knowledge Based Story) that lands superiority and support Superiority roadmap. Support claims strategy through conducting claims workshops, claims support testing, craft compelling knowledge-based selling (KBS) narrative by identifying the most effective ways to highlight and elevate product superiority in alignment with brand strategy.**Experience & Qualifications**Minimum 3 years in Consumer/chef/operators/dining insights, sensory Science with experience in conducting sensory research, consumer qualitative, quantitative and claims research (in CPG with B2B is a plus).

Minimum of 2 years of experience within a category R&D function, Knowledge of the category or other food-based business, Consumer Technical Insight functional and performance experience.

Experience in B2B with chef, operators and dining experience and product functionality insight. Excellent communication skills (oral and written) to bring consumer(operator)/sensory insights to life for multi-functional audiences in a clear and engaging way.

Ability to identify the needs of technical projects and create insight programs for delivery.Have statistical knowledge and ability to interpret data

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