Partnering and collaborating with regional sales, marketing, technical, and customer-facing teams to define clear research objectives that translate product-performance data into meaningful claims support, while contributing to global bioactives and new-product-development projects with product-performance teams in Europe and Asia and communicating study results and technical conclusions to internal stakeholders, customers, and external scientific audiences as appropriate. Leading the day-to-day execution of the clinical and consumer research center testing schedule, with a focus on research quality, capacity, and continuous improvement, as well as overseeing end-to-end study operations including protocol design, panel recruitment, study execution, data analysis, reporting, and documentation.