Sensory and Consumer Experience Team Lead

The Kraft Heinz Company
Netherlands
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 13+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Stakeholder management","Cross-functional collaboration","Workshop facilitation"]

Lead a Consumer Experience Core Platforms team for Kraft Heinz’s Core Product Platforms (Sauces and Meals), covering EPDM markets and collaborating with regional R&D leadership. Drive a consumer-experience strategy that converts multi-source sensory and consumer insights into actionable product and packaging design principles. Manage team priorities, budgets, learning plans, external partnerships, and stakeholder relationships to advance portfolio penetration, innovations, and category growth.

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The Kraft Heinz Company
The Kraft Heinz Company
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Sensory and Consumer Experience Team Lead

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Job Summary

Lead a Consumer Experience Core Platforms team for Kraft Heinz’s Core Product Platforms (Sauces and Meals), covering EPDM markets and collaborating with regional R&D leadership. Drive a consumer-experience strategy that converts multi-source sensory and consumer insights into actionable product and packaging design principles. Manage team priorities, budgets, learning plans, external partnerships, and stakeholder relationships to advance portfolio penetration, innovations, and category growth.
Location: Netherlands
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and mentor a multi-cultural team of Consumer Experience researchers and sensory analysts, ensuring strong performance and continuous development.
  • •Manage resources, project pipeline prioritization, and budget needs to deliver high-impact strategic projects.
  • •Lead the Platforms Consumer Experience strategy to advance consumer obsession, connecting insights across multiple functions and anticipating future consumer needs.
  • •Collaborate with R&D, Marketing, and leadership teams to align product development routes and market strategies, and supervise strategic learning plan execution.
  • •Translate market opportunities and consumer needs into product and packaging design principles, champion design sprint projects, and steer product and pack superiority programs.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Travel AllowanceAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •BSc in Food Science, Engineering, Sensory/Consumer Science, Marketing, or Innovation Studies with 13+ years of experience.
  • •Proven experience in Consumer Technical Insights / Consumer eXperience, Cognitive science, Economical Science, and Sensory Science, ideally within consumer/FMCG/retail client-side work with food categories experience.
  • •International experience within a matrix organization.
  • •Strong quantitative and qualitative research background and experience facilitating workshops across sensory and consumer research disciplines.
  • •Knowledge of design thinking, lean start up, and design principles applied to consumer products testing.
Experience:13+ yearsFMCGRetailConsumer technical insightsSensory scienceFood categories
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringStakeholder managementCross-functional collaborationWorkshop facilitation
Tech Stack:EPDM (Europe Pacific Developed Markets)Consumer experience strategySensory and consumer experience insightsDesign thinkingLean startupDesign principlesDesign sprintProduct designPackaging designConsumer research

Company Brief

The Kraft Heinz Company
The Kraft Heinz Company is a global food and beverage company producing iconic packaged foods and condiments across categories like cheese, meals, condiments, and beverages, serving retail, foodservice, and consumer markets worldwide.
Industry: Food & Beverage
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
Founded: 2015
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