Nicod Ludivine

my role encompasses the following responsibilities:
- Provide sensory guidance to different R&D temas by recommending and applying the most suitable techniques to meet project leaders’ objectives (descriptive profiling, dynamic methods, alternative techniques such as flash profiling, napping methods)
- Support consumer projects management (from fieldwork planning to results analysis and delivery) by organising tests in interaction with cross-functional peers and delivering results to business units (EU and Eastern Europe)
- Provide training to product developers within the different categories to raise awareness of sensory activities and answer specific needs within R&D
- Keep up to date to research findings and their potential contributions to the business (active participation to conferences)
- Global and regional networking/collaboration to leverage, share and promote sensory and consumer expertise across the organisation

6-month internship in the sensory and consumer sciences department, working as panel leader and investigating in parallel an alternative method to descriptive analysis: "Study of sorting task on orange carbonated soft drinks and its comparison to Quantitative Descriptive Analysis"