Sensory Panel Manager (Cork, Ireland)

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Who we are
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.
Best in class
Join our very diverse team of sensory scientists, food technologists, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, strategic thinkers, marketeers, field managers, technicians and other sensory and research experienced colleagues.
We're proud to be part of the (COMPANY NAME) Group
World-leader in Testing for Life. With about 62 000 employees, (COMPANY NAME) is a global leader in testing services and over the last 20 years has been one of the fastest growing companies in the world, thanks to its innovation in technology and service.

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.

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We support your development! Do you feel you don't match 100% of the requirements? Don't hesitate to apply anyway! (COMPANY NAME) companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! The (COMPANY NAME) 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 (COMPANY NAME) 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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Company description: (COMPANY NAME) Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, (COMPANY NAME) laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The (COMPANY NAME) network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over 35 years, (COMPANY NAME) has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. (COMPANY NAME) companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2023, (COMPANY NAME) generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years