Sensory Scientist - Golden Valley, MN

OVERVIEW

The Sensory Scientist provides strategic product guidance to optimize the total product experience through smart Sensory Design while safeguarding the critical design principles and the job to be done

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Partner with Consumer Insights, Research and Development, Marketing, Packaging, Supply Chain, and other business and product teams to guide the optimization of new products, product improvements, and protect product quality as designed
• Drive 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
• Courageously champion product design and product quality as the sensory representative on business teams
• Collaborate with global team members on global initiatives for the platform
• Apply the design of experiments to sensory and consumer testing
• Synthesize qualitative consumer learning and interpret statistical analysis of results of quantitative sensory and consumer testing
• Communicate key findings in a relevant and easy-to-understand manner and guide business teams to next steps in the product development process

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science with a focus/emphasis in Sensory Science, Psychology, Statistics, or related field (i.e., Behavioral Science, Data Science, Experimental Psychology, Consumer Experience, or Human Factors)
• Exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, and influence skills with technical and business-facing teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage resources and leverage existing data to effectively lead multiple projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in Food Science with a focus/emphasis in Sensory Science, Psychology, Statistics, or related field (i.e., Behavioral Science, Data Science, Experimental Psychology, Consumer Experience or Human Factors)
• Experience planning and executing sensory and/or consumer research in partnership with Product Design Teams and/or Consumer Insights.
• Fundamental understanding of applied statistical analysis, including design of experiments and multivariate analysis techniques.
• Experience working with a cross-functional team, consumers, and customers.
• Experience in using advanced statistics to provide advanced analytic solutions to product and business teams.
• Strong technical and analytical skills, and a passion for learning and developing new research methodologies
• Ability to translate strategy into action, using knowledge of current business processes & practices and evolving technology & data.
• Strong data science skills with the ability to communicate and simplify complex data analysis into actionable, easy-to-understand insights.
• Experience in computational and predictive modeling.
• Experience in using internal/external Generative AI models to create efficiencies in workflows and/or aid in uncovering impactful insights from textual data.

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis, and General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.
• This role is open to relocation, but international relocation and remote assignments will not be considered.