R&D Consumer Insights Scientist Internship

Job description

Description

Are you passionate about consumer insights? Would you like to use your scientific and analytical skills to enable product designs that your consumer will love? Do you want to make an impact on products that affect consumers around the world? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.

Consumer Insights Scientists, known in P&G as Products Researchers, work as master integrators, making non-obvious connections across consumer, technical and business realms, and translating these connections into robust product propositions and strategies. As a core discipline of R&D, Products Researcher scientists and engineers provide a unique advantage to P&G by integrating in-depth consumer understanding with product technology in a single role.

We are looking for candidates who have a strong interest in consumer-led product innovation and want to be a champion for the consumer and their needs, helping to improve their daily lives. During your internship, you will play a key role in generating consumer insights and inspiring your multi-functional R&D partners: Designers, Engineers, Scientists & Technologists, to collaboratively translate those insights into irresistible product experiences that delight the consumer.

What you can expect


We are looking to recruit candidates to work in our Reading Innovation Centre for 12-month internship placements starting in summer 2020.

We offer you
·  Responsibilities as of Day 1 – you will feel the ownership of your project from the beginning, and you will be given specific projects and responsibilities from a team that includes senior management and experience the impact you can have in our business early on.
·  Technical focus – you will have the opportunity to put your technical skills to work on intellectually challenging problems.
·  Continuous coaching – you will work with passionate people and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager, enabling you to grow in a multifunctional, diverse environment and developing your talents and ideas.
·  Dynamic and respectful work environment – employees are at the core, we value every individual and encourageinitiatives, promoting agility and work/life balance.
·  Team working – you will improve your team working and management skills through practical experience and interactive training courses.
·  Benefits - we offer an attractive remuneration package on top of a great learning experience, and the best interns have potential to receive a Job Offer after they graduate.

Some examples of past Consumer Insights internship projects
·  Investigate the properties of skin and hair. Suggest potential mechanisms and develop solutions to reduce post shave irritation.
·  Identify connections between razor product technology and consumer insights and translate those connections into winning product proposals. Prototype new product ideas and iteratively learn through explicit, focused learning cycles and consumer studies to create irresistible products.
·  Assess and understand consumer, technology, market, online, competitive and IP landscape to influence the definition of category innovation strategies and new opportunity spaces.
·  Define/develop consumer relevant technical and consumer methods to assess key product attributes and demonstrate claimable product benefits.

Qualifications

Qualifications


We believe you will be an excellent fit, if you:

·  Are a student from the different scientific (e.g. natural/life/physical/data science/computer science), or engineering (chemical/mechanical/electrical/design) disciplines.
·  Are in your penultimate or final year of your degree (Bachelors or Masters).
·  Have Academic excellence at all stages through school and University education
·  Have a good knowledge of English
·  Are a creative thinker who understands the importance of obsessing about our Consumer, defining the consumer requirements and finding technical solutions.
·  Have technical curiosity, creativity, innovation, initiative, communication, leadership and strong collaboration skills.

Note that we in R&D are not looking for IT students, so if passionate about an IT role please check Information Technology.

Closing date: April 30th 2020

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national.

Origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, citizenship or any other legally protected factor.

Job locations:
Reading, England, United Kingdom Job Type: Full-time Req No: RND00004458