**About the Role**
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We are seeking a skilled Sensory Panellist to join our Product Development team at KP Snacks.
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.
**What's Involved**
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As a Sensory Panellist, you will participate in sensory evaluation sessions to provide feedback on new and existing products.
You will 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.
Fundamentally illustrating a genuine passion for food, the criticality of sensory perceptions and enjoy working within a highly candid, collaborative and communicative environment.
**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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**What We Offer**
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Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
We offer a competitive salary, 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.