Scientist, Technical Consumer Research - Tokyo, 日本 - Coca-Cola

説明

Technical Consumer Research is a group in GDI (Global Development & Innovation) in R&D, responsible for leading and managing market, consumer and sensory researches to guide innovations. The Technical Consumer Research Scientist works closely with R&D categories and business teams to understand business needs, project objective, and navigate projects with market and consumer insights through strategic research planning, quality executions and integrated data analysis/interpretation.

Key Responsibilities/Duties:

•Understand and define fundamental consumer/sensory requirements of your categories and inject the knowledge into solution development.

•Work as a close partner with the R&D categories, Marketing and Human Insight teams to understand business needs, define project objectives, and provide strategic research plan.

•Gain market trend and consumer insights through primary and secondary research data to identify new innovation spaces, issues, and provide guidance on product development.

•Lead the designing, execution, statistical analysis, data interpretation, and reporting for all stages of consumer and sensory researches to gain consumer feedbacks, and provide recommendation to project teams.

•Closely connect with internal and external network to explore/develop new methodologies, continues improve current TCR projects management processes and work quality/efficiency.

Job requirements & Related Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in food science, bio/chemical/physical science with a concentration/major in sensory science, behavioral psychology or applied statistics. Masters Degree/ PhD is ideal.

• Preferably 3 years of consumer/shopper/market research or sensory science work experience in preferably food/beverage/FMCG industry.

• Proficient in spoken and written English and Japanese.

Competency:

• Curious. Passionate to deliver superior products and innovation.

• Sound knowledge of sensory and consumer testing techniques and principles including statistics, description.

• Communication skills including presentations, negotiations, meeting organizations, constructive discussions.

• Project management skill to handle multiple projects.

Leadership Behaviors:

• DRIVE INNOVATION: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business (encompassing everything from continuous improvement to new product and package innovation).

• COLLABORATE WITH SYSTEM, CUSTOMERS, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS: Develop and leverage relationships with stakeholders to approximately stretch and impact the System (Company and Bottler).

• ACT LIKE AN OWNER: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.

• INSPIRE OTHERS: Inspire people to deliver our mission, demonstrate passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible.

• DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS: Develop self and support others' development to achieve full potential.

Growth Behaviors:

• GROWTH MINDSET: Demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

• SMART RISK: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

• EXTERNALLY FOCUSED: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.

• PERFORMANCE DRIVEN AND ACCOUNTABLE: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

• FAST/AGILE: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.

• EMPOWERED: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.

Skills:

Leadership; Influencing; Continual Improvement Process; Innovation; Analytical Thinking; Science; Project Management; Data Analysis; Communication; Consumer Research; Laboratory Testing; Data Collections; Research Methodologies; Statistical Data Analysis