CTI Scientific Excellence Manager

Job Description:

This senior technical leadership role is pivotal in shaping the future of product experience for our Pet Nutrition consumers. We are seeking a provocative and inspiring technical leader to challenge the status quo and bring our consumer science capabilities up to speed with the latest methods.

The successful candidate will build and champion our sensory and consumer research approaches to efficiently support our holistic product experience design, establishing a culture of continuous improvement as well as comprehensive training for the relevant CTI associates. You will do so thanks to deep rooted personal expertise and track record in successfully implementing and upgrading those sciences in other roles.

This role is critical to our Consumer & Technology Insights (CTI) organization, driving a user-centric approach and supporting an agile innovation pipeline that is aligned with the evolving needs and desires of pet parents.

Key Responsibilities :

• Capability Building: Design and implement a short to medi -term capability-building roadmap in consumer sciences, including sensory sciences, both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, as well as other relevant user-centric design sciences if appropriate. Define and enforce standards for data quality, method validation, and governance including auditing of current methods

• Talent Empowerment & Upskilling: Support the continuous learning and development of technical talent within the CTI organization, with a strong focus on auditing the current skills and building training for the relevant CTI associates. As a key technical leader, this role acts as a collaborative coach, helping to guide capability growth and advance our collective skills.

• Directional Leadership: Set the direction for our consumer capability agenda, acting as a thought leader to provoke new ways of thinking. You will identify, prioritize, and pioneer the development of new tools, methods, and approaches to understand and design for holistic product experiences. Partnering with the CTI Excellence Snr Manager to develop the wider CTI capability strategy