Megan Waldrop, Ph.D.

About

Experience

• The Coca-Cola Company (Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium)
  • Technical Consumer Research Senior Manager
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Technical Consumer Research Manager
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Symrise AG (Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany)
  • Sensory & Consumer Insights Researcher and Sensometrician EAME
    Jun 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

    -Support all flavor division categories by performing advanced sensory analysis including predictive modeling and DOE analyses in addition to developing best practices and methodologies -Deliver sweet category consumer insights projects from data collection to reporting

  • Sensory & Consumer Insights Project Leader- Sweets + Culinary Flavor Division EAME
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 · 10 mos

    -Managed customer and internal projects to support culinary and sweet categories including questionnaire design, overseeing fieldwork, data analysis, and reporting. Planned and assisted in running the culinary trained panel.

• Research Fellow at the Chair of Marketing and Consumer Research at Technical University Munich
  Apr 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  -Developed quantitative and qualitative projects related to the consumer perception and willingness to pay for improved animal welfare practices in livestock production -Co-taught Quantitative Research Methods, Advances in Consumer Behavior Seminar, Consumers, Technology, and Sustainability Seminar, and Consumer Behavior

• Research Associate/Project Director at Touchstone Research
  Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 · 10 mos

  -Project management over quantitative surveys for consumer market research projects including questionnaire design, programming, and fielding

• International Trade and Finance Course Instructor at Washington State University
  Aug 2016 - May 2017 · 10 mos

  -Responsible for all aspects of the online course including syllabus, lessons, assignments and exams, and grading