Consumer Sensory Insights Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Consumer Sensory Insights Manager - Your future position?

A Consumer & Sensory Insights Manager with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and an essential member of our Taste & Wellbeing French Team based in Paris office (Argenteuil).  

As our Consumer & Sensory Insights (CSI) Manager for France you will lead, design and execute CSI projects to provide insights to develop new Taste & Wellbeing solutions according to the local goals and strategy. The Consumer & Sensory Insights (CSI) Manager will work with technical, sales, marketing team in France, Western Europe and other sub-regional teams.

You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. Our passion for our customers and their brands bring a new dimension to our Business to Business industry. You will work for the market leader at the forefront of innovation in an industry of emotions. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers in France have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and curiosity to your daily job. 

You will design and execute CSI projects in order to provide insights for the development of new Taste & Wellbeing solutions according to the overall local business goals and strategy.

You will be based in Argenteuil and be reporting to the Commercial Director France.

You will:

• Provide relevant/actionable sensory support to local flavour creation, application and commercial teams
• Provide industry-leading CSI expertise to support Givaudan's business and growth or customer projects
• Define priorities and manage projects by developing consumer and sensory protocols/ approaches and team involvement in the country.
• Lead the promotion of sensory and consumer capabilities and results to internal and external customers or university partners/scientific community
• Lead projects. Define priorities and manage a pool of projects by developing approaches and resources for project success
• Develop country specific CSI strategy and implement it in collaboration with Sub regional CSI Manager. Part of the French Leadership Team.
• Develop and apply innovative CSI solutions to create a competitive edge for Givaudan. Identify areas of innovation and recommend projects according to needs.
• Develop, Roll-out or create new methodologies according to needs to expand CSI capabilities.
• Facilitate communication between countries and departments to ensure transfer of best practice.
• Maintain accurate records of all CSI testing: create and enter information in CSI system
• Design advanced computerized testing protocols
• Conduct relevant statistical analysis, interpret results, write reports and provide results, interpretation and guidance to internal and external customers

You?

• Advanced university degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Marketing or related area experience in industry
• 8-10 years of consumer and sensory insights expert in foods, beverages in B2C or B2B.
• Fluent in English, French native language
• Demonstrated proficiency and leadership in cross-functional project management and problem-solving in research and product development environment
• Proven project management experience, communication and cross-functional team leadership, international project management a plus
• Demonstrated independence in applying innovative CSI methodologies including descriptive, discriminative, quantitative testing plus integrative and design of experiments to answer objectives.
• Proven success in the design and management of complex research studies.
• Experience in Social Listening: qualitative and quantitative and knowledge on Social Media principles is a plus.
• Experience in managing project teams in conducting complex experiments

Our Benefits:

• Annual paid leave
• Attractive salary package with annual bonus
• Profit share
• Health insurance and pension
• Great learning and career development opportunities

PLEASE APPLY WITH ENGLISH CV.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.