Consumer Insight Specialist (m/f)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.jobsintown.de/admin/upload/kundenupload/kd_6614/vorlagen/10549/style.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body style="margin:0px";> <p> </p> <table class="Rahmen1" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="700" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="27" height="15" valign="top"><img src="http://www.jobsintown.de/admin/upload/kundenupload/kd_6614/vorlagen/10549/_blank.gif" alt="" width="27" height="104" /></td> <td class="Text" width="696" valign="top"> </td> <td width="27" valign="top"><img src="http://www.jobsintown.de/admin/upload/kundenupload/kd_6614/vorlagen/10549/_blank.gif" alt="" width="27" height="15" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="Text" valign="top"> </td> <td class="Text" valign="top"> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong class="blau">Nestlé</strong> is the world's largest food company and ranks number one for its investments in research and development. Our <br /><strong><span class="blau">Research & Development Centre</span></strong> in Singen, located in <strong><span class="blau">Germany</span></strong> is specializing in the development of culinary and baby food products as well as in the development of innovative manufacturing technologies. A team of 220 dedicated Innovation Professionals from 35 nations around the globe, works together to create and deliver innovative concepts, products and processes to inspire consumers, shoppers and customers with great tasting, nutritionally superior and trusted products.</p> <p> </p> <p>In order to support our <strong><span class="blau">Consumer Link Department </span></strong>we are looking for a:</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><span class="Job">Consumer Insight Specialist (m/f)</span><br /><span class="Sub-Job">(temporary, 12 - 24 months parental leave replacement)</span></p> <p><br />to start asap.</p> <p class="blau"><strong><br />Tasks:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and manage consumer understanding activities within Nestlé R&D in Singen for the different business areas</li> <li>Assure that science and technology driven innovation and renovation is matching consumers´ needs and desired product experience in alignment with identified Strategic Business Unit / business strategy and innovation roadmaps </li> <li>Spread a more consumer centric focus into the organization via day by day work with technologists on approved projects, organizing ad hoc consumer understanding sessions for the colleagues and providing a consumer / commercial perspective in a science / technology based environment </li> <li>Act as translator between the marketing / business as well as the science and technology environment to extract relevant consumer insights and create in return relevant product ideas </li> <li>Collaborate with Strategic Business Units and Businesses in consumer research projects aimed at understanding consumer motivations, attitudes and habits for a given product category and act as the facilitator with Nestlé R&D Singen product developers sharing all the relevant information / understanding </li> <li>In the pre-stage and stage-gate innovation process, work with Strategic Business Units and Businesses to define the benefit area (what a new product or service will give to the consumer to answer to the insight) and the reason why<br /> (attributes / technology coherent with the benefit) for new concepts, assuring Research and Development people understanding and expertise is leveraged </li> <li>Facilitate brainstorming sessions in Nestlé R&D Singen in order to generate insights and to translate Corporate Identity <br />into ideas / product concepts </li> <li>Assure that consumer insight and benefit are integrated over the whole product design / development process</li> <li>Collaborate closely with the development teams to set up qualitative and quantitative consumer research from product design, prototype development to final product validation</li> </ul> <ul> </ul> <p class="blau"><strong>Profile:</strong></p> <ul> <li>University degree in food science, food technology, food engineering or in commercial / psychology studies or<br /> similar with specialization in consumer research</li> <li>Minimum 3 years Experience in marketing research agencies</li> <li>Experience in moderation and analysis of focus groups and interviews </li> <li>Computer literacy in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) </li> <li>Fluency in English and German mandatory (written and spoken), other languages are a plus</li> </ul> <p class="blau"><strong>Benefits: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Working in an on-site consumer interaction facility, access to a worldwide network of experts and partner agencies</li> <li>Challenging tasks, responsibilities, innovative and independent projects</li> <li>Possibility to gather working experience within the world's largest food company</li> </ul> <p align="center"><span class="Sub-Job"><strong> </strong></span><span class="Job Sub-Job"> </span><span class="Sub-Job">Our Nestlé Research & Development Centre in Singen is an exciting place to be:<br /> We are a great team, with fascinating responsibilities in a fantastic environment!</span><br /><br /><span class="Sub-Job">Join us and apply online at<strong>: <a href="http://www.ptc-singen.de" target="_blank">www.ptc-singen.de<br /></a></strong></span><br /> <img src="http://www.jobsintown.de/admin/upload/kundenupload/kd_6614/vorlagen/10549/20110902logo.jpg" alt="" width="322" height="39" /></p> </td> <td class="Text" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="Text" colspan="3" valign="top"><img src="http://www.jobsintown.de/admin/upload/kundenupload/kd_6614/vorlagen/10549/footer.png" alt="" width="750" height="89" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><br /> <br /></p> </body> </html>