Kevin Thomas

Head of Consumer Insights at SAM Sensory and Marketing International

Greater Nantes Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Director of Activities Beauty – Luxury – Fragrances Pole at Strategir
    Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Direction of Evaluation team - Beauty sector Support to Methodology, Portfolio & Innovation Data Insight point of contact

  • SAM Sensory and Consumer Research (14 yrs 9 mos)
    • Associate Research Director
      Sep 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Managing a team of Research Managers Expertise in Sensory science (methodologies, analysis, interpretation...) Training and Support to the teams

    • Head of Consumer Insights
      Nov 2021 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Responsible for SAM's deliverables quality Internal trainings (methodology & statistics) Support for complex reports Innovation of SAM methodologies & analysis

    • Senior projet Manager - International support
      Sep 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      International support and training (methodology & statistics) Development of quality documents for training, homogenization of methodologies and optimization Innovation +Senior Project Manager tasks

  • Chargé d'étude at Ecole d'ingénieurs de Changins
    Mar 2010 - Sep 2010 · 7 mos

    Selection, leading & training of a sensory wine panel (with performances management) Optimization of training methods Organization of sensory & consumer projects (CLT, TDS, Napping…)

  • Stagiaire - Laboratoire de recherches at ICT Prague
    Jun 2009 - Sep 2009 · 4 mos

    Participation in a scientific paper for Food Control Study on still water composition & causes of chlorine smell and set up of an analyzing process (for chlorine components)