Sensory Evaluation Manager

4 weeks ago


Bryanston, South Africa Nestlé Full time

**Company**:Nestlé

**Position**:Consumer Sensory Insight Group Manager
**Qualification**: Degree Food Science education or equivalent in Science

**Experience**: 7-10 years’ experience in both R&D and Operations

**Closing date**:29** **November 2024

**Position Summary**

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do, and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We are now looking for a Consumer Sensory Insight Group Manager** **to be based in Bryanston.

In this role you will be responsible to lead, direct and advance the Sensory and Consumer Understanding capabilities, competences and resources in the related unit, in close collaboration within and across Market, SBUs & factories to ensure innovation and renovation advances consumer trends and understanding, and influence Business strategies. Continuously seeks and advances effective and efficient capabilities and seeks to further enhance existing CSI best practices. Promoting Ensures the use of Sensory and Consumer Research in innovation and renovation at market level to advance consumer understanding and ensures projects, initiatives, and platform success. Lead, coach and develop a team of Leaders, experts, specialists and technicians.

**A day in the life of a **Consumer Sensory Insight Group Manager**:
**Line Manager / Functional leadership for staff and activities**
- Establishes unit objectives and define 5 years strategic roadmap, accordingly, builds and ensures group visibility and credibility
- Ensures good integration, motivates and develops staff to ensure high-quality competencies within the section
- Manages resources for studies and ensure sufficient resources/mandates

**Promotes and drives sensory & consumer understanding activities**
- Guarantees early-phase collaboration between R&D and business and define the consumer insight, benefit territory and technical solutions in the context of the strategic business opportunity.
- Promotes consumer perspective throughout the Innovation/renovation development process. Facilitates/participates in idea and concept generation.
- Provides consultancy to Zones / Markets / Businesses on sensory evaluation, Consumer research and Good Taste.

**Leverages consumer-centric mindset and knowledge and networks across businesses & product categories**
- Be a strong ambassador of consumer-centric mindset. Collaborates closely with Business / leverage connections outside to import consumer knowledge to R&D, also by sponsoring presentations, training and events in the Centre focused on Consumer Understanding.
- Drives R&D culture change by networking with like-minded advocates across locations and product categories.
- Facilitates new developments in the fields of Sensory and Consumer Research and leverage learnings
- Facilitates new technical instructions creation in the sensory and consumer fields.
- Drive Sensory relates defect elimination projects in factories

**What will make you successful?**
- Degree Food Science or equivalent in Science degree.
- 7-10 years’ experience in both R&D and Operations
- Has very good understanding of the Consumer Sensory Insight field
- Capability to lead a group of people and develop people including experts / senior experts - Solid understanding of operational set-up of categories
- Ability to manage resources and budget requirements



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