Role Description

Skills required

You’ll need:

• excellent research skills
• the ability to relate to a wide range of people and issues
• strong presentation skills
• the confidence to give recommendations on consumer trends
• IT skills

What you'll do

Your day-to-day duties may include:

• researching and writing reports
• testing recipes
• recruiting and training panels or focus groups
• conducting interviews with consumers
• researching the tastes, needs and preferences of consumers
• giving advice to manufacturers and retailers on improving items and services
• developing tests to make sure products meet quality standards and legal requirements
• representing consumers' rights 
• advising hotels, restaurants, schools, residential care homes or hospitals on catering
• advising on products ranging from household goods to public places
• producing information on cookery, family health and new products
• talking with the media
• advising on healthy living in schools, colleges and universities
• working for bodies like the Food Standards Agency or Trading Standards