Design Team Coordinator - job 1 of 3

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.

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.  We help our clients:

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

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. Key areas of focus include:

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Based on the envisioned report, develop the analysis plan, detailing the specific analysis to be conducted and slides to be generated.
• 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.
• 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.

Role requires the following skills:

• 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. 
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

Required Licenses or Certificates:

Valid Driver’s License and Proof of Insurance

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.

• 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.
• 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.

Position is Full-Time: Hybrid position

Pay Range: $45k/Yr.- $60k/Yr.

Candidates currently living in a commutable distance to Plymouth, Minnesota, are encouraged to apply.

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.72 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins USA Food Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.