Sensory Panellist

Molson Coors Beverage; Burton upon Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in the UK is seeking two part-time Sensory Panellists to join their quality team. This role involves tasting and evaluating products to ensure high standards of flavor. Candidates should possess a keen sense of taste and smell, along with strong communication skills. It offers a flexible working schedule, with opportunities for personal growth in a prestigious organization. If you are passionate about food and drink and want to make an impact, apply now!

Benefits

Flexible working options

Equal parent leave

Commitment to wellbeing

Qualifications

• Passionate interest in food, drink, and flavors.
• Experience or background in food quality preferred.
• Ability to express disagreement constructively.

Responsibilities

• Support Quality team in flavor evaluation of products.
• Undertake taste training and performance evaluations.
• Provide sensory data to influence business decisions.

Skills

Well-developed sense of taste and smell

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Ability to embrace change

Cooperative teamwork skills

Job description

Requisition ID: 36647

Brands to love, Careers to last.

Why You Should Join Us

At Molson Coors, we've been bringing people together over a cold beer for more than 200 years. Our award-winning portfolio includes beloved brands such as Coors, Carling, Madri Excepcional and Blue Moon. Our diverse range also features popular brands like Aspall, Rekorderlig, Staropramen, Doom Bar.

As a global leader in the beverage industry, we are deeply committed to promoting responsible drinking and driving sustainability.

With a presence in over 100 countries and a team of 16,000 employees, we are dedicated to fostering a sustainable future for our communities and championing responsible drinking worldwide.

Joining us means becoming part of a company that values tradition while innovating to meet the evolving tastes of our consumers. We believe in celebrating all of life’s moments together and making a positive impact in the world.

As a People First organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working options.

Part time role - 9 hours per week - Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday 9:30 -12:30

Your Purpose

We now have a truly brilliant opportunity for 2x part time Sensory Panellists to join us based at our largest and most advance brewery in Europe. 1x roles will be a permanent position, and 1x role is a 6 month FTC. This is the role where you get the chance to taste and assess our brilliant portfolio of brands to ensure the quality is world class for our consumers.

Responsibilities

As a Sensory Panelist will support our Quality team in the flavour evaluation of Molson Coors brands and new products in development, ensuring that they meet the needs of the consumer.

You will undergo taste training and performance evaluation on a weekly basis, developing your tasting and assessment of flavour ability using the feedback from these sessions.

You will product match Molson Coors brands, evaluating the sensory impact of new processes, and providing independent and objective sensory data on which Technical, Marketing and Production can make business decisions.

It’s a fascinating process where you can truly impact our brands.

About You

To be considered for this role you will need a well-developed sense of taste and smell and a passionate interest in food, drink and flavours.

You will need to be able to demonstrate the ability to embrace change, work co-operatively with others and express disagreement in a constructive manner. If that sounds good to you, then we’d like to hear from you.

In addition to the above you’ll need effective verbal and written communication skills and applicants with a food quality background will be preferred.

About Us

• We’re one of the UK’s Most Attractive Employers winning the Top Employer award for the last 12 years.
• Equal Parent Leave - as much or as little as you wish of 52 weeks parent leave, with 26 weeks at full pay irrespective of gender or path to parenthood.
• Flexible work programmes to ensure a work life balance is maintained such as our market leading Moments That Matter for significant moments in your life.
• Commitment to the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people reflective of our People First value.
• We’re committed to raising industry standards and leaving a positive imprint on our employees, consumers, communities and the environment which is reflected in Our Beer Print and our 2025 sustainability targets.

Molson Coors Beverage Company: Building Careers

Molson Coors Beverage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we seek, value and respect everyone’s unique perspectives and experiences knowing that we are stronger together.

Our aim to build a skilled and highly engaged workforce that unites around our shared values and reflects our diverse marketplace; and foster a workplace where all employees’ unique talents, skills and perspectives are valued and leveraged – where all people feel that we are #BetterWithYou. This makes our talent strategy simple – we want the best talent in all our roles, regardless of their background.

We are Disability Confident Committed. If you require any additional assistance or adjustments in advance of, or during the application and/or hiring process, please contact us at [e-mail].

We want you to succeed and will be happy to support you.