Sensory Specialist

Position Snapshot

• Location: Jurong, Singapore
• Company: Nestle R&D, Singapore
• Job Type: Contract (6 months)
• Computer skills on dedicated sensory software and statistical tools (XLStat, EyeQuestion etc.)

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

The Sensory Specialist will develop and generate final sensory report for use of the category to support product and technology development projects and contribute to success in Innovation/renovation activities while enabling the panel leads and technicians to be autonomous in their evolved roles.

The Sensory Specialist responsibilities include:

1. Provide sensory support and expertise to innovation/renovation projects and technical acceptance release products:
   Actively provide insights to Site and Category sensory teams in identifying the appropriate Sensory Evaluation methodologies to apply
   Analyze/interpret and generate final reports (and present results if required) as per Nestle report format
2. Developing Sensory Team to its evolved role
   Teach and coach sensory panel leads on best practices of panel leading
   Assess capability of current sensory panel leads to become effective Sensory Specialist and develop training plan to close identified gaps.
3. Manage sensory panels
   Provide timely feedback regarding points for improvements
4. Network and provide technical assistance
   Contribute to knowledge transfer and to keep up with new development in the field. 
   Active contributor in the Nestle Sensory network meetings - actively share best practices of RDSG.
   Develop a plan to transition the current technician role to a panel leader of an internal panel

Qualifications:

• Academic background in food science / food technology (scientific / technical and statistical knowledge).
• 5-10 years of experience in sensory, preferably in FMCG from R&D side.
• A broader experience in operations or business side is a plus.
• Computer skills on dedicated sensory software and statistical tools (XLStat, EyeQuestion etc.)