Scientist Foods CTI

About the role

The North America Nutrition Business Unit (BU) in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey is looking for a consumer savvy scientist to join our Consumer Technical Insights (CTI) team to contribute to the success of our North America brands. CTI (Consumer Technical Insights) is an integral part of R&D, sitting at the interface between product design and marketing. Our purpose is to guide our brand and category design partners to create products that deliver to the consumer needs, with product experiences that delight consumers and cue desired benefits. We develop communications that are purposeful and extremely compelling.

What You’ll Do

• Basic appreciation of the design of a holistic consumer understanding plan for Innovation projects.
• Able to independently design consumer testing and analyze and interpret data with guidance on final conclusions.
• Provide insights as opposed to data.
• Possesses sound, basic appreciation of advanced testing including Pref mapping and modeling and when to apply.
• Understand how to translate CTI information into technical targets against which products can be designed (performance & attributes), developed and measured.
• Basic appreciation of qualitative methods with some applied usage of focus group and 1:1 interviews.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate research plan following UL global guidelines and within project budget.
• Ensures comprehensive understanding of purpose of testing, documented procedures, purpose, and data interpretation of results, conclusion, and insights.
• Independently executes projects with minimum complexity.
• Able to identify research needs, brief and manage research partners and lead discussions.
• Actively participate in and effectively conducts meetings with R&D, marketing and Consumer Market Insights (CMI).
• Negotiates timelines and deliverables with project team.
• Delivers aligned plan to CMI and to the project team.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Food Science, Data Science, Chemistry, Biology Science, Psychology or similar discipline preferred.
• 2+ years of experience in CTI/Claims (Consumer research, Sensory, Claims and Communication Development) (including internship) strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Sensory Science, Consumer research, statistics/data modeling a plus.
• Sensory & Consumer testing techniques along with Claim support and demo creation techniques experience.
• Excellent communication skills.

What We Can Offer You

• Culture for Growth
• Top Notch Employee Health & Well Being
• Benefits | Every Voice Matters
• Global Reach
• Unilever: Life
• LinkedIn
• Strategy
• Unilever
• Why work for Unilever
• Careers at Unilever
• Unilever Global Website
• Careers with Purpose
• World Class Career Development Programs
• Check Out Our Space
• Focus On Sustainability
• Pay: The pay range for this position is $71,400 to $107,200.
• Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.
• Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.