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Sensory and Consumer Experience Team Lead

Nijmegen💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead a multi-cultural team of Consumer Experience researchers and sensory analysts to transform insights into actionable product and packaging design principles for sauces and meals in Europe, Pacific, and Developed Markets.

Role type

Senior IC Team Lead (Consumer Experience & Sensory)

Builds

Consumer-led product development routes, packaging design principles, and strategic learning plans for FMCG food categories.

Domain

Food & Beverage / FMCG / Consumer Research

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Consumer experience strategy, sensory science, quantitative and qualitative research, workshop facilitation, design thinking, lean startup, stakeholder management, team leadership, project pipeline prioritization, budget management, agency roster management, product viability assessment.

Preferred skills

Food category experience, international matrix organization experience, cognitive science, economical science.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a multi-cultural team of researchers and analysts; drive consumer experience strategy to connect multi-source insights with product development; collaborate with R&D and Marketing to align product routes; develop strategic learning plans to enhance portfolio penetration; manage external agency partnerships for data collection; translate market opportunities into clear design principles; oversee product development follow-up and risk assessment; champion design sprint projects; steer product and pack superiority programs.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team management

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