Nutricia Research Centre for Specialized Nutrition (SN), located in the Utrecht Science Park in the Netherlands is a state-of-the-art Life Science innovation center for the development of new product concepts for Specialized Nutrition. We create formulas that provide clinically substantiated health benefits to vulnerable consumers – infants, toddlers, elderly and patients.

The SN Research & Innovation (SN R&I) division is looking for a User eXperience Superiority Decision Scientist to accelerate the UX transformation and bring the user voice into our business. It is a great opportunity for someone wishing to join a dynamic community, to act as a catalyst of a consumer centric organization and drive consumer empathy.

Our dynamic UX community, with more than 100 collaborators across the world, has for main mission to embody the user voice to inspire and co-design awesome food experiences that people will adopt. We work in a multi-disciplinary business environment, to understand consumer’s behaviors and expectations and design products and packaging. We partner with leading edge scientists and agencies to build a competitive advantage for Danone.

Your main responsibilities

Are you passionate about turning data into impactful decisions? As a User eXperience Superiority Decision Scientist, you’ll be at the heart of our Superiority program— reporting on our portfolio’s performance and bringing the user voice into the superior design. You will focus on translating business questions into analysis plans and generating insights, and on data management and visualization. You’ll build automated dashboards, deliver insightful reports, and conduct meta-analyses to drive business impact. As a business-to-data translator, you’ll enable scalable data integration and analytics solutions to support strategic decisions. You’ll report to the Senior User Experience Superiority Program Manager, with a dotted line to the Senior UX Sensory Data Manager—collaborating closely with experts across UX, sensory, and data science. The main missions are to:

• Create impactful reports and automated dashboards (Power BI) for internal stakeholders to communicate on program KPIs, test results and global and category action plans. Ensure that data-driven recommendations are practical and aligned with business needs, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency, putting results into business context.
• Conduct statistical analyses and meta-analyses to translate business challenges into actionable insights, by supporting the Senior UX Superiority Program Manager with data activation from the Superiority program.
• Data governance and management: documentation and data dictionary, ensuring data integrity and accuracy for the Superiority program.
• Improve and maintain superiority metadata for data integration and quality, liaise between Digital and Superiority teams.
• Support driving innovative data science, advanced analytics and AI solutions in collaboration with the Senior UX Sensory Data Manager that power UX SN digital and product innovation and data-driven decision leveraging superiority research data, working with cross-functional teams

In this role you will be an enabler of the superiority acceleration and interface with mainly UX teams across all SN categories and capabilities. You fit perfectly because:

• You hold a Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or similar, with an expertise in programming (SQL, Python, R), and BI tool (Power BI). Experience with sensory or consumer data applications, medical nutrition or FMCG research, is a bonus.
• You are business oriented and results-driven with an insights mindset, able to translate business challenges into research questions and analysis plans.
• You take a particular interest in reporting and you have a passion for data and creativity in statistical analyses; strong sense of user-friendly data management and attention to detail.
• Experience with Databricks, Azure, Jira and Confluence would be an advantage.
• You have solid experience of collaborative working, with strong inter-personal skills for dealing with a variety of people (profile and seniority level), and ability to work independently. You have the flexibility to accommodate change and thrive amid ambiguity.
• You are fluent in English, and international experience is a bonus.
• You have a passion for bringing the voice of the users into the design of our products.

At Danone we are committed to our mission “bringing health, through food to as many people as possible”. We are working together to make sure that our brands, like Nutricia and Nutrilon, create real benefits for people, communities and the planet. You will be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world. Being B Corp means to be part of a select movement of companies verified to be meeting the highest standards of social and environmental criteria and using business as a force for good. One Planet. One Health.

Our state-of-the-art research and innovation center builds bridges between food and science and is global in reach, founded on over 125 years of experience in life & food science, technology and user experience and is at the forefront of pioneering advances in specialized nutrition.

We offer:

All Danoners receive a complete package of benefits. This includes a competitive salary and yearly bonus, a premium free pension, 30 days of annual leave (with the opportunity to purchase more) and you will receive a monthly health care allowance. In addition, you can get discount on your gym membership, and we offer initiatives focused on nutrition, physical, and mental health. We provide continuous learning opportunities through workshops, online courses and training sessions.

We put people at the center of everything we do. Bring your unique perspective, ambitions and ideas to the table – the impact you could make might surprise you. We are committed to embrace diversity, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA.

What's next:

It’s simple – hit the “apply” button before the application deadline of 12-10-2025. In order to comply with GDPR we can’t process your personal data without your given consent, so please apply directly via this website. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you.

Need more information? Please contact Joost Rijksen, joost.rijksen@danone.com

* All applications will be considered for a vacancy without discrimination based on ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

#LI-NL #LI-HYBRID