Design Coordinator Jobs

Company Description

The National Food Lab is a fast-growing company with a vision to be the destination for tailored solutions for the food industry – beginning to end. Our mission is to provide services that help food, beverage, and supplement companies deliver safe, healthy and successful products. We seek to make a positive impact in the advancement of food safety, quality and nutrition, fulfilling our corporate promise – to improve health and improve lives.

We Help Our Clients

The National Food Lab’s best-in-class consumer and sensory research capabilities employ a variety of quantitative and qualitative consumer and sensory research techniques to help our clients make products consumers love.

• Present objective results to management
• Understand the product, brand and category competitive landscapes
• Assess product-concept fit or packaging effectiveness
• Re-energize a well-established product
• Develop new product ideas

Position Overview:

Key Areas Of Focus Include

The Design and Analytics Coordinator reports to the Senior Design and Analytics Manger. The Design and Analytics Coordinator is responsible for ensuring all aspects of a project’s survey design, data collection, and analytics and report approach meet our client’s business objectives and are modern, creative, and insightful.

• Employing industry benchmarks and other outside data to provide context for study findings
• Create screening and product surveys to gather data that will illuminate and fulfill study objectives.
• Understanding our client’s business goals and collaborate with the client service director to design research materials that produces insightful, clear, and actionable results.
• Design analysis and report plans that utilize scientific and modern techniques for communicating study results, including but not limited to:
• Creating infographics to communicate key take-aways visually and concisely
• Assimilating multiple data points to draw conclusions
• Using story telling techniques to organize findings into a coherent message
• Employ innovative analyses methodologies to deliver industry leading insights.
• Maintain survey/question standards and best practices.

Collaborate with and monitor recruitment and output production to ensure research design is implemented as specified, error-free, and on-time.

Detailed Responsibilities

The following is a list of key job responsibilities. This list is not exhaustive and additional tasks may be available as business needs dictate.

• Monitor recruitment to ensure the correct respondents are enrolled, at the right pace. If probably work with the production team to analyze response data and recommend adjustments to the client service team.
• Design/Create product serving rotation to ensure balanced presentation of samples.
• As necessary, work with the client service director to create custom slides that assimilate, visualize and communicate key learnings in answer to the client’s objectives
• Based on the envisioned report, develop the analysis plan, detailing the specific analysis to be conducted and slides to be generated.
• Envision/mock-up the report, with specific focus on the executive summary/infographic slides. Collaborate with the client service director to ensure it will fulfill the client’s objectives.
• Collaborate with the Production team to ensure your analysis and report planning process allows them to complete data processing and report population with maximum efficiency and quality. QC the report template before it is shared with the client service director for interpretation and writing.
• Understand the project’s objectives and client’s desired survey population so to draft a recruiting survey to the specified criteria, necessary quotas, and The NFL’s best practices.
• Collaborate with the Production and Recruiting team to ensure your screener drafting process allows them to program the screener with maximum efficiency and quality. QC the programmed screener before it is approved for launch.
• Understand the project’s objectives and product variables so to design a product questionnaire that will generate the date necessary to address the research objectives, power the analysis and follow The NFL’s best practices.
• Design/Create product serving rotation to ensure balanced presentation of samples.
• Collaborate with the Production team to ensure your product survey drafting process allows them to program with maximum efficiency and quality. QC the programmed product survey before it is approved for launch.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Minimum of a four-year Bachelor of Arts/Science/Business degree and 2 years related business experience in a related field, including data analytics, project management, and/or sensory or marketing research.

Role Requires The Following Skills

• Technical Skills - Proficiently use full range of business software including Microsoft Office Suite software (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Mathematical Skills - Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability, statistical inference, and complex logical rules. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, proportions and basic Algebra to practical situations.
• Analytical - Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data.
• Quality Management: looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Attention to Detail: strong attention to detail with focus on critical thinking and error free measurement and reporting.
• Strong Collaboration and communication skills – must enjoy working with others, in service to others.
• Creativity/Visualization Skills – able to envision how data may be presented, often before the data is available, so to tell a story. Able to quickly sift through data and identify what is relevant to the story and ultimate business decision.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds (50 lbs. with assistance).
• The employee must have the ability to stand for long periods of time.

Additional Information

What we Offer:

• Paid vacation and holidays
• Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.