Principal - Sensory and Product Experience

 

If you’re motivated by meaningful work that directly contributes to the wellbeing of your community, the Nestlé Quality Assurance Center can offer you an unparalleled career. Our team is committed to being a force of good, protecting the safety and wellbeing of consumers across the nation. We provide comprehensive testing services to all of Nestlé’s production facilities and co-manufacturers, ensuring that our food and beverage products meet the highest safety, quality, and regulatory standards. As an organization, we’re driven by our mission to strengthen consumer trust, and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm.

 

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

 

JOB SUMMARY: 

 

Our team members are challenged to make a genuine impact and play an integral role in driving the business forward. We embrace a dynamic culture that always puts the consumer first, and where ownership, accountability and agility are celebrated at every level. To help our people thrive, we offer expansive career growth potential, the opportunity to work alongside and learn from talented colleagues with diverse backgrounds and skill sets, and a range of best-in-class benefits.

 

The Sensory and Product Experience Principal drives high-level consumer and sensory expertise to research, technology and process-related programs, builds and continuously improves functional capabilities, and ensures cross-functional execution of global consumer centric initiatives.  Our Principal establishes consumer and sensory mastership by being at the forefront in driving consumer knowledge building initiatives, giving expert recommendations that lead to informed decisions across our global organization, and ensuring a competitive advantage/sensory superiority/differentiated innovation in existing and new categories, in alignment with R&D and business strategies.    

 

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

• Consumer Centricity: drive consumer centricity throughout the innovation & renovation process to optimize every consumer experience by being an advocate for our consumers by embedding a consumer centric mindset in everything you do.

 

• Foundational Knowledge: serve as a trusted advisor and recognized consumer and sensory expert

to lead complex, strategic projects in a global context that have broad-based implications across R&D, the business and across categories. Cultivate foundational knowledge to accelerate and deepen understanding of ingredients, processes, products, packaging and consumers.  Add value through execution excellence, and collaboration through influence, and mutual understanding while leading projects to successful resolution.

 

• Innovation / Renovation Mastership: utilize mastership of foundational and advanced design of experiment techniques and their application to escalate Innovation and Renovation impact, efficiency & agility. Utilize advanced market research approaches as decision tools to enhance innovation / renovation products that are differentiated in the marketplace. Execute consumer and sensory programs that closes the knowledge gap of our opportunities, challenges, markets, consumers, products, and processes.

 

• Collaboration and Knowledge Leadership: advance vendor program relationships cultivated on trust and transparency. Ensure innovative approaches, thought leadership, advanced methodological expertise, strategic mindset and strong business acumen are the foundation of all vendor partnerships. Promote consumer understanding across the organization. Maximize collaboration between sensory, consumer, R&D, and business partners.

 

• Technical Expertise: build and enhance functional capabilities and ensure cross-functional execution of global consumer centric sensory programs. Lead the implementation of these programs across all manufacturing sites, local and global.  

 

• Value Delivery: ensure mastership and full utilization of