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Driscoll's · 1 day ago

Consumer Research Senior Manager

Watsonville, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$107K/yr - $173K/yr

5+ years exp

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. They are seeking a Consumer Research Senior Manager to drive innovation in integrating consumer preferences into the development of new berry varieties, collaborating with Consumer Insights and R&D teams to enhance consumer delight. This role will also focus on developing a global strategy for consumer research and championing best practices across global research sites.

Food & Beverages

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a global strategy for consumer research to Win with Flavor for the next generation, partnering with Consumer Insights and other R&D teams, while seeking out new opportunities to take delight further

Champion change management, leading in consumer data as an asset, ensuring alignment and adaptation of standardized sensory and post-harvest protocols across global sites

Serve as a key member of the R&D Management Team while mentoring and inspiring a consumer research team generating flavor data at scale across global R&D locations and performing innovative discovery research

Collaborate across R&D functions to automate the collection of sensory and post-harvest data, working with teams on designing training sets and developing models, and ensuring data standardization and governance

Partner with IT teams to develop new solutions that connect data streams across consumers, employees, central location testing, and trained employee panelists to fuel the next generation of prediction models

Be a leader in organized data and reproducible science, supporting both Next Generation Breeding and other teams in flavor and post-harvest research priorities

Manage budgets and allocate resources associated with the Consumer Research team

Qualification

Consumer research strategySensory sciencePost-harvest researchData analysisPeople leadershipBilingual in Spanish

Required

PhD or Master's Degree in sensory science, post-harvest, fruit physiology, or a related field with significant exposure to modern breeding methods and technologies

Five or more years of industry experience in a field related to consumer research

Five or more years of people leadership experience

Consumer and sensory testing, including the supervision and development of consumer panels for flavor ratings, and trained panels for descriptive analytics

Post-harvest fruit physiology and research, including in the testing of post-harvest applications to improve shipping and shelf-life of soft fruits

Compilation, staging and analysis of diverse data types, including basic statistics, principal component analysis, partial least square regression, hierarchical clustering, repeatability/heritability estimates, and interpretation of these results

Advanced sensory research and post-harvest soft fruit research experience

Preferred

Bilingual skills in Spanish is a plus

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week (US)

401(k) with employer match

Profit-sharing participation

Paid sick time

Paid vacation

Paid personal and family care leave

Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Company

Driscoll's

Driscoll’s is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries.

Founded in 1944

Watsonville, CA, US

1001-5000 employees

http://www.driscolls.com

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