Field Resource Executive

Full time 36.25 hours per week. Permanent. Nottingham or Reading based with hybrid working and occasional travel between locations. Flexible working with some evening and occasional weekend work required. At SAM-Sensory Dimensions we work with well known brands to help them develop and improve their products. This involves conducting research projects on a range of different product types with consumers from our expanding community of testers who evaluate products either at our facility or from their own homes. This position sits within the team responsible for the maintenance, growth and development of our consumer community. Responsibilities:

• To work at all times in accordance with the Company Culture.
• To organise and plan your time to ensure that all your deadlines are met and promises to both clients and colleagues kept.
• Deputise for the Consumer Panel Manager when he/she is out of the office.
• Implement the company procedure for recruiting consumers onto our database.
• Take ownership of consumer recruitment campaigns, ensuring all studies are recruited on time, to budget, and quotas met. Where numbers are not met, proactively finding solutions.
• Train staff on how to use the consumer database.
• Identify and solve problems, keeping stakeholders informed.
• Communicate regularly with Project Managers about recruitment progress and any aspect of recruitment that has an impact on projects.
• Assist with the design and implementation of recruitment campaigns, designed to recruit consumers to the database and to target specific consumer groups.
• Actively seeking and actioning consumer experience feedback.
• Manage the consumer inbox, escalating any issues to the Consumer Panel Manager.
• Perform random quality checks on consumer records.
• Ensure consumer information is held according to GDPR.
• Assist the Consumer Panel Manager with induction and training of casual staff (recruiters).
• Brief recruiters on studies and support them with study-related queries.
  
  Are you an enthusiastic and proactive person?
• Do you have strong communication skills and attention to detail?
• Do you enjoy providing excellent customer service?
• Do you enjoy working as part of a busy and dynamic team?
• Are you reliable, hard-working and very organised?, Applicants should be proficient in MS Outlook, Word and Excel, and be adept at working with numbers.
  
  If you can honestly answer 'yes' to these questions, you may well be an ideal candidate to join our team at SAM-Sensory Dimensions.
About SAM-Sensory Dimensions SAM-Sensory Dimensions is part of SAM, a global leader of sensory and consumer research, with 16 facilities in UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Morocco, China and the USA. The UK facilities are in Reading and Nottingham. We have a growing portfolio of contracts and ad-hoc projects with the world's most famous FMCG and Retail brands. SAM is committed to developing the talent of its team by investment, training and the creation of career opportunities. We provide forward thinking, agile and innovative research solutions to help clients achieve their goals and aspirations. We do this by combining traditional and innovative techniques including: sensory evaluations by trained panels, quantitative consumer product evaluation, qualitative "Product Labs", implicit approaches and voice enabled technology. All our research is under-pinned by best-in-class fieldwork, study design, data analyses, insight generation and engaging communication to clients. We're proud to be part of the Eurofins Group World-leader in Testing for Life. With about 61 000 employees, Eurofins is a global leader in testing services and over the last 20 years has been one of the fastest growing companies in the world, thanks to its innovation in technology and service.