**Job Description**
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KP Snacks is looking for a passionate Sensory Panellist to join our Product Development team.
The successful candidate will play a crucial role in evaluating the taste, texture, and quality of our snack products to ensure they meet our high standards.
**Responsibilities**
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* Participate in sensory evaluation sessions to provide feedback on new and existing products
* Use your senses to identify flavour profiles, textures, and overall product characteristics
* Work closely with our product development team to help create delicious and innovative snack offerings
* Participate in sensory training developing understanding of sensory language and terminology and key sensory testing methods
* Engage in product testing of various snack and other food products, assessing their appearance, aroma, flavour, mouthfeel, and aftertaste
* Actively participate and collaborate in descriptive panel discussions describing product attributes, attribute definitions, use of scale and scale references
* Responsible for completely and accurately entering own product scoring data using specialist sensory software
* Follow instructions on sample evaluation, use of scale and questionnaire completion given by the panel leader
* Participate in product and sensory related training, and successfully applying this learning to the sensory panel work
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**Requirements**
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* Previous panel evaluation experience valued
* Good sensory acuity as measured through screening process
* No allergies, dietary restrictions or medical conditions that may impede ability to evaluate snack products
* Passion for food and snack products
* Basic familiarity with IT desirable
* Organisational and time management skills desirable
* Good communicative and articulate skills, combined with great collaborative, relationship-building behaviours expected
* Must be comfortable eating large amounts of snack products
* Full Driving licence
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**Benefits**
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Our competitive salary package includes a bonus scheme, annual salary review, medicash health cash plan, digital GP, best doctors service, company sick pay, holiday buy scheme, electric vehicle scheme and KP4ME benefits platform.