Consumer Science Scientist II

Birmingham Source: WhatJobs

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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Under the indirect supervision of a manager, you plan and organize cross-functional projects and develop consumer-centric objectives and strategies in response to business needs. You also interact independently with senior management and stakeholders.

How you will contribute

You will deliver on single or multi-stage complex projects, meeting standards and time frames by designing research and producing quality, actionable data. You will lead all aspects of qualitative and quantitative consumer research and ensure that the data gleaned is translated into a cohesive story. To that end, you will interpret results, report and present findings, and make recommendations that contribute to decision making. In this role, you may also lead descriptive panels, training, data analysis, reporting and assess panelist’s performance, interact with your peers, junior developers/marketing and other colleagues, and may take on supervisory responsibility when completing assignments. This role requires an understanding and the application of multivariate statistical methods to gain deeper understanding and insights from the research. Teamwork is essential in this position because you will participate on teams where new methodologies and capabilities are evaluated, proposed and implemented. You will partner with key stakeholders (R&D and commercial/insights) to ensure that the work is aligned with strategic priorities and ensure that procedures are followed and the highest standards of work and environment, health and safety are maintained.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

Qualification in food science, engineering, psychology, sociology, food technology, food chemistry or similar
Qualitative and quantitative consumer testing methods
Statistics to analyze data and interpret results
Handling multiple priorities and adhering to deadlines
Working with cross-functional teams and business partners
Project planning and management skills
Problem solving, creating solutions and working independently
Microsoft Office applications

More about this role

What you need to know about this position

This role will be split between Cocoa focused projects and Statistics/Digital. Cocoa is the largest material procurement spend area for Mondelēz with well over half the company’s revenue coming from products made with cocoa derived ingredients. Reflecting the recent shortages in supply and related price volatilities, Mondelēz has formed a Cocoa Enterprise Team to modernize and expand the future supply of cocoa through innovations, strategic investments and a commitment to produce the best possible chocolate for our consumers. Your role will be to deliver on single or multi-stage complex projects, meeting standards and time frames by designing research and producing quality, actionable data. You will lead all aspects of sensory and consumer research and ensure that the data gleaned is translated into a cohesive story.

This role requires advanced expertise in Sensory and Consumer Science methods and analysis, along with strong understanding of multivariate statistical methods including BBN analysis and modelling skills to gain deeper understanding and insights from the research. To that end, you will interpret results, report and present findings, and make recommendations that contribute to decision making.

Teamwork is essential in this position because you will participate on teams where new methodologies and capabilities are evaluated, proposed and implemented. You will partner with key stakeholders (R&D, Digital and commercial/insights) to ensure that the work is aligned with strategic priorities and ensure that procedures are followed and the highest standards of work and environment, health and safety are maintained.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

Qualification in food science, engineering, psychology, statistics, digital science, sensory science food chemistry or similar
Knowledge of sensory and quantitative consumer testing methods
Strong understanding of Statistics to analyse data and interpret results
Familiarity with digital/analytics and modelling tools
Experience or willing to learn agentic assisted programming and coding
Handling multiple priorities and adhering to deadlines
Working with cross-functional teams and business partners
Project planning and management skills
Problem solving, creating solutions and working independently
Microsoft Office applications

Work schedule: standard working hours (Mon-Fri), and hybrid working model.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broad range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life’s moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands globally and locally including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the top position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy and the second top position in gum.

Our 80,000 makers and bakers are located in more than80countries and we sell our products in over150countries around the world. Our people are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen—and happen fast.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.