QUALITY SPECIALIST - Stellenbosch Verfied

Salary Negotiable Stellenbosch, Western Cape Stellenbosch, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 20-08-2019 10:39:50 AM
15-10-2019 10:39:50 AM
This exciting career opportunity will enable you to apply your business acumen to ensure that the company achieves its challenging objectives during the next phase of its growth in South Africa. The available position is that of a QUALITY SPECIALIST: PRODUCT, PROCESS AND SENSORY

Duties & Responsibilities:

Product and Processes:

• Applies design of experiments to sensory evaluation testing
• Ensure Product and Processes with product studies
• Support with sensory analyses to better understand the effect of recipe
• Understand the sensory attributes and consumer acceptance model
• Interprets statistical analysis of the results of sensory evaluation testing

Factory sensory teams:

• Support on Industrial projects, and ensure effective planning of the projects with the Quality and Industrial teams to meet the production outcome within the specified plant parameters.
• Serves as sensory representative on business teams
• A key “get-right” will involve the improvement of the demand analytics capability of Parmalat in order to improve our forecasting performance through, amongst other, demand sensing. Within a high performance culture, the individual must have a strong ownership approach together with the ability to drive change through influencing and persuading, supported by previous hands on experience and depth of knowledge within a FMCG environment.

Team work:

• Cross functionally to guide the teams.
• Confers with internal QA teams, research and development, marketing, packaging, manufacturing and other departments.
• Gather the data, the findings must be presented in a report to the plant, and other teams.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS on Food Science or related field
• 3 years of experience in a wide range of sensory analysis and consumer product testing techniques and their applications
• Experience of leading sensory activities and/or working with sensory agencies
• Experience in marketing research with exposure to a variety of consumer testing techniques in product testing is a plus
• Experience in FMCG, from QA and business side is a plus

Recruiter: The HR Legend