Sensory Senior Scientist, Scarborough

Position Title: Sensory Senior Scientist, Scarborough

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Scarborough

Requisition ID: 21123

There’s nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them.

When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet-friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better.

So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

ABOUT THE ROLE.

This role is brand new to our GB business, we’re looking for a Senior Sensory Scientist to join our Global team!
The Senior Sensory Scientist will work as part of the Global Center of Excellence of Sensory and User Experience team, providing guidance to internal team members to expand McCain’s global sensory capabilities. This includes the optimization and standardization of sensory tools and the development of new or hybrid methods. It also includes developing new training materials, assessing and onboarding new vendors, identifying and closing gaps the company has in regard to its sensory needs, and contributing to investigations regarding the linkage between sensory methods or attribute intensities to instrumental test methods. It will also include...

• Partnering with Consumer Insights, Research and Development, Marketing, Packaging, Supply Chain, and other business areas to align on priorities, build project connections and guide the organization towards strong customer and consumer understanding and insights.
• Drives 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 of McCain personnel.
• Champion product design and product quality as the sensory representative on the R&D and business teams.
• Further strengthens best sensory practices within the R&D teams and provoke a consumer-first mindset.
• Encourages all to apply design of experiments to sensory and consumer testing.
• Grows overall skill sets of Sensory Scientists and Technicians to turn data into actionable insights. This includes a synthesis of qualitative consumer learning and interpretation of statistical analyses of quantitative sensory and consumer testing.
• Brings sensory change management to the organization by educating, connecting and making sensory approachable by translating complicated concepts into simple terms.
• Develops and fosters strong relationships with key sensory and consumer testing vendors to ensure flawless execution of tests and appropriate pricing.

ABOUT YOU.
We’re looking for an experienced Sensory Scientist, who can demonstrate experience in creating, launching and improving sensory consumer and analytical methods to guide product development, enable successful innovation launches and guide renovation efforts. You’ll also…

• Have a degree in Sensory Science, Food Science, Statistics, Psychology, or related field, Master's degree with emphasis in Sensory Science preferred.
• Successful and inspiring leader of people with proven record of coaching, teaching and improving performance of employees.
• Demonstrated ability to manage direct reports and successfully influence peers in a remote setting.
• Experience in planning and executing sensory and/or consumer research in partnership with R&D and CI / Marketing.
• Fundamental understanding of applied statistical analysis, including design of experiments and multivariate analysis techniques.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
You’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in ‘chips’. As well as a competitive salary we also have some ‘a-peeling’ benefits including:

• Achievable personal and business performance-based bonus
• Private medical insurance scheme
• A great pension plan — and we’ll pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Flexible holidays — with the option to buy & sell up to 5 extra days per year
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off — to make a positive impact in McCain communities across the globe
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunities to relocate in the future — we’re a worldwide business, so the opportunities are there for those who seek them

WHERE WILL I WORK?
Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working. This means we don’t have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office – however we would like to see you on a weekly basis as that’s the best place for us to build and maintain our connections. Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough – 1.5 hours away from Leeds City Centre, and about an hour from York. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!) and because hybrid really does mean hybrid at McCain, they get the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues when they’re in the office, and balance that with working from home to ensure they get a good life-work balance

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Research & Development
Division: Global Research and Development
Department: Sensory Innovation GB/CE/SAF
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Grantham || GB - United Kingdom : England : Hull || GB - United Kingdom : England : Peterborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Reference job description || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Montrose

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd