Sensory Panellist

**Sensory Panellist**

**Ashby de la Zouch (home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders and Popchips)**

**6 hours a week - 2 days (3 hours each) Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am to 12:30pm**

**Salary **:KP Living Wage**

**Company Overview**

KP Snacks is proud to be part of the Intersnack Group. With an annual turnover of more than €3 billion, the Intersnack Group has grown and flourished to become a market leader in savoury snacks, present in over 30 countries across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and beyond, employing more than 14,000 employees and 44 factories globally (33 in Europe, 3 in Australia, 3 in New Zealand, 2 in India and 3 in Vietnam).

In the UK KP Snacks consists of c2,300 colleagues across our seven factory locations and Slough HQ. We make great tasting snack brands such as Hula Hoops, McCoy’s, Pombear, KP Nuts, Butterkist popcorn, Tyrrells and popchips.

**The Role**

We are looking for a passionate Sensory Panellist to join our Product Development team at KP Snacks. As a Sensory Panellist, you will play a crucial role in evaluating the taste, texture, and quality of our snack products to ensure they meet our high standards.
- 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.
- Fundamentally illustrating a genuine passion for food, the criticality of sensory perceptions and enjoy working within a highly candid, collaborative and communicative environment.
- If you have a keen sense of taste, a love for snacks, and enjoy being part of a dynamic team, we would love to hear from you.
- Previous panel evaluation experience will be 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 are expected.
- Must be comfortable eating large amounts of snack products.
- Full Driving licence

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