General Mills · 7 hours ago
Sensory Scientist - Golden Valley, MN
Golden Valley, MN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$65K/yr - $89K/yrGeneral Mills is a company that prioritizes being a force for good and expanding learning. The Sensory Scientist role focuses on optimizing product experiences through strategic guidance and collaboration with various teams, ensuring product quality and enhancing consumer understanding.
Food and BeverageFood ProcessingManufacturingSnack FoodWholesale
No H1B
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Foundation of health benefits
Retirement and financial wellbeing
Time off programs
Wellbeing support
Perks
Annual incentive program
Company
General Mills
General Mills is a food company that manufactures and markets branded consumer foods.
Founded in 1928
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.7B2024-10-15Post Ipo Debt· $2.7B
1928-11-30IPO
Leadership Team
Asheesh Saksena
Chief Growth Officer
Jacqueline R. Williams Roll
Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
2026-01-07
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