We are the leading international sensory and consumer research company specializing in food, beverages, cosmetics, personal care, and other consumer products. We have 19 proprietary state-of-the-art facilities across France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom, Morocco, China and the USA, and cover more than 65 countries through our network of approved partners.
SAM provides tailor-made solutions, delivering actionable guidelines to make our clients’ brands and products memorable.
SAM is a great place to work
Join SAM to work with the most competent, creative, and fun team in the industry and let your work, opinions and ideas contribute to the future of sensory and consumer research.
Become your most extraordinary self with support and development throughout your career.
Job Description
As a Panel Manager/Coordinator, you will be working onsite at our client’s R&D facility in Cork, Ireland. As the first point of contact for our client’s R&D team, you will be responsible for panel, project and lab management. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
* Scheduling of all panels, ensuring a minimum turn-around time of sample results.
* Panel recruitment, training, performance & maintenance.
* Creating project research plans including proposed methodologies.
* Signing off technician’s reports and prepare more complex data set/method reports.
* Collaborating with the client’s sensory team on final interpretation/recommendation/report requirements.
* Coaching & development of panel leaders/technicians, helping them to advance and expand their capabilities.
* Implementing new sensory methods (incl. training for technicians).
* Ensuring that our client’s Quality Management System requirements are adhered to.
* Ensuring that panelists stay motivated through performance feedback.
* Leading initiatives for efficiency and sustainability through participating in the Green Lab Certification process.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Sensory-related study program.
* Deep knowledge of sensory approach and statistics applied to sensory.
* Strong organizational and project management skills.
* Confident communicator in English, both spoken and written.
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and sensory software.
* Ability to work in a cross-functional and intercultural environment with multiple stakeholders.
* Open-minded, easy to connect and creative mindset.
* Analytical skills and attention to detail.
* Ability to adapt to changes in real-time and meet timelines.
* Agile mindset and problem-solving attitude.
Additional Information
We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
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