Consumer Science & Product Research Consultant (Temporary)

We need to output only HTML fragment with sections for headings where there is content. Use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's parse the posting. Content: Division Information: description of business unit. Could be "About the role"? Actually "Division Information" is about the business unit. Could be considered "About the role" or maybe "About the company". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content to those headings. We have: - Job Summary: description of role, limited term, travel expectation, purpose. That could go under "About the role". - Primary Duties & Responsibilities: with subheadings: What You Will Build – Consumer Science Leadership, Consumer Understanding, Benchmarking & Competitive Intelligence, Consumer Research, What You Will Build (again). This is responsibilities. So we can put under

Responsibilities

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• items. - Education and Experience Profile: BS degree, MS preferred, 10+ years experience, etc. That's "Requirements" or "Qualifications". We have both Requirements and Qualifications headings. We need to decide which to use. Usually Requirements = mandatory, Qualifications = preferred. The posting has "Education and Experience Profile" with required and preferred items. We could split: Requirements: BS degree, 10+ years experience, etc. Qualifications: MS preferred, experience in certain categories, etc. But we need to avoid thin sections. Might combine into one section "Requirements" containing both required and preferred? The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we have one section "Requirements" that includes both required and preferred. Or we could have "Qualifications" for preferred. But we need to avoid empty sections. Let's see content: BS Degree in Science or Engineering field. MS preferred. 10+ years of experience in fast moving consumer goods R&D, Consumer Science or Products Research. Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, Household Products, Cleaning Products, Pest Control, Lawn & Garden, Consumer Durables preferred. Successful experience converting consumer understanding into product propositions; launching to market. Experience in Front End innovation and NPD preferred. Experience designing and managing IHUTs, CLTs, qualitative consumer research, and product evaluation studies. Strong analytical skills with the ability to convert qualitative and quantitative findings into technical recommendations. Demonstrated ability to manage external research suppliers and research budgets. Behavior science experience preferred. Role not eligible for sponsorship. Thus we can put under

  Requirements

  a list of items (some required, some preferred). Could also have a separate "Qualifications" for preferred items, but that may be thin. Let's combine. - Required Skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills. Strong project management and organizational capabilities. Curiosity, critical thinking, and passion for understanding consumer behavior. That's Skills section. - Work Environment: repeats limited term, travel expectation. That's similar to Job Summary. Could be part of About the role or maybe Schedule? Actually schedule: 40 hrs/week, limited term 5-6 months. Travel expectation: up to 3 days every 2 to 4 weeks. That could be placed under "Schedule" (hours/week, duration) and maybe "Benefits"? No benefits info. Pay not mentioned. So we should not create Pay or Benefits sections because no specific content. Schedule: we have info about hours/week and duration. So we can create a Schedule section with that info. Thus sections: - About the role (Job Summary + Work Environment maybe). But we need to avoid duplication. Let's put About the role: job summary description (limited term, travel expectation, purpose). Could also include division information? Might be considered "About the role" includes division info? The division info is about the business unit, not the role. Could be considered "About the role" or maybe we could omit division info if not needed? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep division information. Where to put? Could be part of About the role as a preamble. Or we could create a separate section like "About the company" but not allowed headings. Only allowed headings are those listed. So we must fit division info into one of those headings. Perhaps "About the role" can include context about the business unit. That seems acceptable. Thus About the role will contain division information + job summary + work environment (maybe). But we should avoid duplication: work environment repeats limited term and travel expectation; we can mention it once. Let's craft About the role paragraph: combine division info and job summary and work environment (limited term, travel). Ensure we keep all details. Then Responsibilities: list duties. Then Requirements: list education/experience. Then Skills: list required skills. Then Schedule: mention 40 hrs/week, 5-6 months limited term, travel expectation up to 3 days every 2 to 4 weeks to Earth City, MO corporate office. We should not include Benefits, Pay. Now format: Use

  for each section heading. Under each, use

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  • for lists. We need to ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO, etc. Remove those lines. Let's extract precise text. Division Information: "The Home & Garden business unit of Spectrum Brands is based in St. Louis, Missouri with distribution, manufacturing and sales offices throughout the US and globe. We are a leading supplier of consumer products nationally for the home, lawn and garden, insect and weed control markets. We deliver groundbreaking products of exceptional value and top-notch quality to consumers with our well-recognized brands including Spectracide®, Hot Shot®, Cutter®, Repel®, Black Flag®, Garden Safe®, EcoLogic® and Liquid Fence®." Job Summary: "This is a limited term employment opportunity.We are anticipating this role will last 5 to 6 months (40 hrs/week).Travel Expectation: This role is expected to travel up to 3 days every 2 to 4 weeks to our Earth City, MO corporate office. The Consumer Science & Product Research consultant will establish and lead the creation of an R&D-focused consumer science capability that enables the Global Home Care organization to make faster, more confident product development decisions. This role sits within Research & Development and is focused on applying consumer learning to product formulation, performance validation, prototype development, benchmarking, and technical decision making. The role is not intended to duplicate Marketing or Consumer Insights functions such as brand strategy, segmentation, communications testing, or market assessment. Instead, it focuses on understanding how consumers experience products, identifying performance gaps, validating product solutions, and translating consumer feedback into actionable product development recommendations. The successful candidate will build scalable processes that allow R&D teams to continuously incorporate consumer learning throughout the product development process, reducing technical risk and increasing the likelihood of product success." Primary Duties & Responsibilities: we need to capture all bullet-like content. It's structured with headings: "What You Will Build – Consumer Science Leadership", then sub-sections: Consumer Understanding, Benchmarking & Competitive Intelligence, Consumer Research, What You Will Build (again). We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's parse. Under Consumer Understanding: - Develop an R&D consumer science strategy that complements Marketing and Consumer Insights activities while focusing specifically on product performance and technical decision making. - Lead validation of Consumer usage experience, confirming product solutions deliver against expectations, as defined through validated concepts to meet the 3-year IMP and QIR. - Build standardized approaches for understanding how consumers use, evaluate, and experience product performance throughout development. - Translate consumer observations into actionable technical recommendations for formulation and product development teams. - Ensure product performance gaps, usage barriers, and unmet functional needs are translated into actionable R&D opportunities. Benchmarking & Competitive Intelligence: - Design and execute comprehensive competitive product benchmarking studies to identify points of difference and opportunities to improve performance. - Develop standardized benchmarking protocols across key product categories. - Analyze competitive product claims, performance characteristics, usage experience, and consumer product evaluations. - Generate technical insights from competitive products that influence R&D priorities. - Partner with Marketing and Insights to analyze ratings and reviews, identifying consumer dissatisfiers, unmet needs and opportunity areas for product performance. - Identify recurring product performance complaints, usage frustrations, and improvement opportunities. - Provide recurring insight reports to R&D leadership and project teams. Consumer Research: - Develop And Manage An R&D-focused Consumer Research Program Including In-Home Use Tests (IHUTs) Central Location Tests (CLTs) - Product concept feasibility assessments, prototype evaluations, and product experience validation - Qualitative product use and product experience studies - Consumer use-observation and human factors studies focused on product interaction and performance evaluation - Product performance validation and Second Moment of Truth confirmation studies - Partner with external research suppliers to ensure studies generate technically actionable learning What You Will Build (second occurrence): - Standardized benchmarking process - Preferred consumer research suppliers and methodologies - Library of validated consumer testing protocols - Product experience and consumer learning database accessible by R&D teams - Best practices for integrating consumer learning into Stage Gate decisions We need to combine these into a list under Responsibilities. Could be a single
    with many
    • items. Ensure we keep all. Education and Experience Profile: - BS Degree in Science or Engineering field. - MS preferred. - 10+ years of experience in fast moving consumer goods R&D, Consumer Science or Products Research. - Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, Household Products, Cleaning Products, Pest Control, Lawn & Garden, Consumer Durables preferred - Successful experience converting consumer understanding into product propositions; launching to market. - Experience in Front End innovation and NPD preferred. - Experience designing and managing IHUTs, CLTs, qualitative consumer research, and product evaluation studies. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to convert qualitative and quantitative findings into technical recommendations. - Demonstrated ability to manage external research suppliers and research budgets. - Behavior science experience preferred. - Role not eligible for sponsorship. Required Skills: - Excellent communication and presentation skills. - Strong project management and organizational capabilities. - Curiosity, critical thinking, and passion for understanding consumer behavior. Work Environment repeats limited term and travel expectation; we already used that in About the role maybe. We'll avoid duplication. Now Schedule: we have 40 hrs/week, 5 to 6 months limited term, travel expectation up to 3 days every 2 to 4 weeks to Earth City, MO corporate office. Now produce HTML. We must not include any extra text outside HTML fragment. No markdown fences. Let's craft. Structure:

      About the role

      Division information paragraph + job summary paragraph (including limited term, travel, purpose). Ensure we keep all details.

      Responsibilities

      • ... each duty

      Requirements

      • ... each requirement

      Skills

      • ... each skill

      Schedule

      ... schedule details

      Check for any missing info: we included division info, job summary, responsibilities, requirements, skills, schedule. No benefits/pay. Now ensure we didn't inadvertently include boilerplate like "The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed..." etc. That's boilerplate; we must remove. Also remove "Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer." Remove. Now write the HTML. Let's compose the About the role paragraph: "The Home & Garden business unit of Spectrum Brands is based in St. Louis, Missouri with distribution, manufacturing and sales offices throughout the US and globe. We are a leading supplier of consumer products nationally for the home, lawn and garden, insect and weed control markets. We deliver groundbreaking products of exceptional value