United States Job Openings

General Mills

Sensory Scientist

Golden Valley

September 12, 2024

Job Description:

OVERVIEW

The Sensory Scientist role provides strategic product guidance to optimize the total product experience through smart Sensory Design while safeguarding the critical design principles and the job to be done.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Partner with Consumer & Market Intelligence, Research and Development, Marketing, Packaging, Supply Chain, and other business and product teams to guide the optimization of new products, product improvements, and protect product quality as designed
Drive projects through appropriate product and packaging consumer and sensory learning plans from optimization to confirmatory testing, inclusive of building foundational product knowledge, protecting product quality, and enhancing consumer understanding
Facilitates consumer interactions to grow consumer empathy
Courageously champion product design and product quality as the sensory representative on business teams
Collaborate with global team members on global initiatives for the platform
Apply design of experiments to sensory and consumer testing
Synthesize qualitative consumer learning and interpret statistical analysis of results of quantitative sensory and consumer testing
Communicate key findings in a relevant and easy to understand manner and guide business teams to next steps in the product development process

Development candidate will receive in the role:

Learn to influence and lead as a subject matter expert on a cross-functional team
Working in a Global Center Of Excellence
Consumer First Design Skills

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

M.S. degree in Food Science with a focus/emphasis in Sensory Science, Psychology, Statistics, or related field (i.e., Behavioral Science, Data Science, Experimental Psychology, Consumer Experience or Human Factors)
Exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, and influence skills with technical and business facing teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to manage resources and leverage existing data to effectively lead multiple projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience planning and executing sensory and/or consumer research in partnership with Product Design Teams and/or Consumer Insights
Fundamental understanding of applied statistical analysis, including design of experiments and multivariate analysis techniques
Experience working with a cross-functional team, consumers, and customers
Experience in using advanced statistics to provide advanced analytic solutions to product and business teams
Strong technical and analytical skills, and a passion for learning and developing new research methodologies
Ability to translate strategy into action, using knowledge of current business process & practices and evolving technology & data
Strong data science skills with ability to communicate and simplify complex data analysis into actionable, easy to understand insights
Experience in computational and predictive modeling
Experience in using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms to uncover impactful insights from textual data

Additional Considerations

International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered
This role is a hybrid role in Minneapolis, MN. Remote assignments will not be considered.
Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas

Company Overview:

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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