Panel Co Ordinator - Customer Tasting and Insight

Panel Coordinator - Customer Tasting and Insight Location: Welwyn Garden City (Office Based) Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract Hourly Rate: £14.44 Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.40pm (37.5 hours per week) Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12 months About the Role Are you a confident, organised individual with a genuine passion for food? Do you enjoy engaging with people and leading group discussions? We are looking for a Panel Coordinator to support the day to day running of customer tasting panels at a leading Product Tasting Hub. This is a hands on role where you will coordinate panel sessions, facilitate discussions, and ensure accurate data capture to support product insight and quality testing. Key Responsibilities Set up and coordinate daily customer tasting panel sessions, ensuring everything is prepared and runs smoothly Facilitate and moderate panel groups, guiding discussions and capturing feedback in a clear and structured way Accurately record, collate, and input data from panel sessions, ensuring high levels of accuracy Support the management of panellists, including rotas, attendance, and communication Work closely with kitchen and operational teams to ensure products are ready for testing Carry out data checking and validation to ensure results are reliable and consistent Support wider research activity and provide administrative support where required What We're Looking For To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate: A genuine passion for food - you will be working with food daily and must be comfortable tasting a wide range of products Confidence facilitating or moderating groups - able to lead discussions and manage group dynamics Strong administrative skills - including data accuracy, reporting, and organisation Excellent attention to detail, especially when capturing and inputting feedback Strong communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to manage multiple tasks and work in a structured, process driven environment Comfortable working in a fast paced, team focused setting Important Requirement This role involves tasting food products as part of panel sessions. Candidates must be comfortable tasting a wide range of food items as part of the role. About the Employer At our client, inclusivity is at the heart of everything they do. They are committed to creating an accessible recruitment process and welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you require any adjustments at any stage, please let us know. Application Information Due to the volume of applications, if you do not hear from us within five working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer. By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Adecco. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information - please copy and paste the following link in to your browser