As one of North America's largest packaged food companies, ConAgra Foods nourishes consumers with leading brands. More than 95 percent of American households shop for and enjoy our respected consumer brands, which include Healthy Choice, Chef Boyardee, PAM, Slim Jim, Hebrew National, Reddi-wip, Egg Beaters, Hunt's, DAVID, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, and Banquet. With $11.6 billion in net sales, approximately 30,000 employees and a presence in more than 110 countries, ConAgra Foods is a Fortune 500 firm positioned to innovate and win, now and in the future.

Along with competitive salaries and benefits, our employees enjoy opportunities for professional growth and a workplace that encourages initiative, fresh ideas and working and winning as a team. We're looking for the best people with the best talent. Build your career with us and be a part of building the new ConAgra Foods.

Description:

Responsible for Statistics Leadership of the ConAgra Foods Center for Research, Quality and Innovation (CRQI). Functions as part of the Sensory Insights Leadership team to determine strategies and actions plans for the Sensory Insights and Statistics (SIS) group. This person will interface and communicate with business teams on issues pertaining to statistical design and analysis, product optimization, consumer attitudes of ConAgra Foods products and food categories.

Qualifications:

• Lead the Statistics and Experimental Design operations within the Sensory Insights organization, including the incorporation of appropriate, advanced and state-of-the-art statistical techniques into product development and quality assurance efforts.
  
• Provide statistics support for the CRQI organization in the form of recommending sound research approaches, creating designs of experiments, analyzing and interpreting data, and making sound, practical recommendations to the business teams.
  
• Lead the development of Experimental Design skills within the CRQI staff through training and hands-on experience.
  
• Create and maintain effective working relationships with CRQI product developers to continually promote the use of systematic research when appropriate, and further the statistical education of the developers.
  
• Develop and maintain a strong network of outside resources for Statistics.

Education/Experience:

• BS and Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in relevant field, to include principles of human behavior and testing, statistics and experimental design and sensory science. Most relevant degree fields are Statistics, Biostatistics, Food Science with a Sensory Science emphasis, or Experimental Psychology.
  
• 3+ years of progressively responsible, relevant experience in supporting business needs through research on consumer packaged goods.
  
• Deep skill set in Statistics, Experimental Design and the use of statistical analysis software (Design Ease, Design Expert, SAS and JMP).
  
• Superior advocacy, training and collaboration skills.
  
• Experience in the application of methods in sensory research, statistics and the basic tools of human measurement.
  
• People management skills, both professional and support staff.

As we build our brands, we're building the team that will take our business to the next level. Our high-performance culture is based on simplicity, accountability and collaboration and offers exceptional career opportunities throughout the organization. Challenging positions at all levels offer opportunities in sales, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, IT, finance, R & D and other areas. All of our positions offer opportunity for personal growth and financial reward.

ConAgra Foods is an equal opportunity employer, and we place a high value on the diversity of our employees, customers, consumers and vendors. We're looking for the best people with the best talent. You can build your career and be part of building the new ConAgra Foods. Visit us at www.conagrafoods.com.

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