Research Executive

Job Description

1. Project Management
   • Managing the fielding of Interco projects
   • Programming of screeners & pre-screeners
   • Managing local products sourcing & shipment
   • Management of local subcontractors
   • Writing screeners, questionnaires, and/or HUT instructions for standard tests
   • Translating questionnaires and/or protocols in local language
   • Tracking and monitoring questionnaire completion for HUT
2. People
   • Close collaboration with the field team
   • Work closely with other members of our sensory and research team and the Data Solutions Hub
   • Supervise and lead our sensory panels
   • Recruit, train, manage and motivate sensory panellists
   • Preparation of tests (organisation of sessions, & samples, preparation of test questionnaires)
   • Conduct sessions (descriptive profiling, temporal assessment and discrimination testing)
   • Assist with statistical analysis and data visualisation
   • Support with writing reports for the client
   • Follow-up and control of panelists' performance
   • Participation in the quality assurance process

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in sensory, consumer or marketing analysis
• Some experience in market research or sensory research
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and the local language
• Proficiency in MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
• Rigorous, responsive and proactive
• Strong organisational and planning skills, that ensure work is effectively prioritised to meet deadlines