What will you be doing?

• Leading sensory capability across KP Snacks and Intersnack: Managing the delivery of sensory programmes and ensuring resources are effectively deployed to support innovation, product improvement, cost reduction and business growth activities.
• Providing expert sensory insights and recommendations: Designing and delivering sensory studies, analysing complex data using appropriate statistical techniques and translating findings into clear recommendations that support business decision making.
• Leading and developing a high-performing sensory team: Recruiting, training, coaching and motivating sensory panellists and colleagues, managing performance and ensuring the highest standards of sensory evaluation and testing are maintained.
• Driving sensory excellence and capability building: Promoting best practice across the business, designing and delivering sensory training, introducing new methodologies and supporting colleagues to make informed product development decisions.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships: Partnering with colleagues across Research & Development, Research & Insights, Operations, Marketing and Commercial teams, as well as external partners and Intersnack colleagues, to deliver impactful sensory programmes.

Who are we?

We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.

We’re committed to inclusion

We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.

Job Requirements

We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:

• Strong sensory and FMCG experience: Strong experience in an FMCG environment, ideally food, with experience in sensory assessment, product development and leading sensory panels.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills: Knowledge of sensory methodologies, statistical analysis and sensory software such as Compusense, Minitab, R or similar, with the ability to turn complex data into actionable insights.
• People leadership and influencing skills: Experience leading and developing teams, managing priorities and building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Relevant scientific qualification and commercial awareness: A bachelor's degree or equivalent in a science discipline, ideally including food science and/or statistics, alongside an understanding of the food industry and consumer needs.
• A proactive and passionate approach: A genuine enthusiasm for food, flavour and sensory science, excellent communication skills, strong Excel and PowerPoint capability and a valid UK driving licence.