Nutrition Strategy & Communications Manager

Select Engineering; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Select Engineering Limited is seeking a nutrition communications specialist to promote wellbeing messages across multiple media and brands. You will partner with regulatory, science affairs, brand teams and legal to develop compliant nutrition claims and guidance for product development and marketing.

You will lead internal nutrition education initiatives, coordinate health influencer activities and help translate scientific knowledge into credible consumer communications while managing projects

Qualifications

• Minimum BSc Hons degree in Human Nutrition.
• Master's degree is preferred.
• Experience communicating nutrition messages in the food industry.
• Strong public speaking and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Develop nutrition and wellbeing messages across packaging, advertising, websites and materials.
• Support claim development and regulatory alignment with internal nutrition requirements.
• Lead nutrition education programs and influencer outreach to drive brand credibility.
• Collaborate with regulatory, science affairs, marketing and legal teams.

Skills

Nutrition communications

Public speaking

Project management

Autonomy

Regulatory awareness

Education

BSc Hons in Human Nutrition

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

You support nutrition and well-being strategies across all categories including biscuit, gum, candy, chocolate, beverages and meals for the business unit. Your interactions are across multiple functional groups such as product development, marketing, regulatory and scientific affairs, global teams, and nutrition organizations.

How you will contribute

Working with regulatory and scientific affairs, brand teams, consumer insights, nutrition research, and legal, to promote nutrition and well-being messages and claim development across various media (packaging, advertising, websites, recipes, materials for nutrition/health professionals, etc.). You will provide strategic guidance to product development and marketing on nutrition criteria, assessing, and report compliance with established internal nutrition requirements. In addition, you will lead internal nutrition and well-being education programs to increase employee knowledge and awareness on relevant topics and implement local health influencer outreach programs and nutrition conference strategies to drive brand credibility and growth. This role will require you to partner with regulatory and science affairs, corporate affairs and global nutrition network to support external influencing strategies and stakeholders’ communication related to nutrition agenda.

What you will bring

• Nutrition communications, preferably in food industry
• Food regulations and claim application
• Translating scientific knowledge into relevant and credible messages.
• Public speaking
• Project management with creativity and determination to evolve successful solutions, ability to multi-task, and meet multiple deadlines
• Working independently with high autonomy
• Dietitian or nutritionist accreditation or registered with and official professional nutrition body is preferred

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Garners expert knowledge on the UK regulatory environment regarding food and drink related health and wellbeing interventions including HFSS.
• Stays abreast with the changing external environment, bringing perspectives on opportunities and implications to the business. Partners with internal stakeholders on solutions and strategic plans.
• Develops and support nutrition & wellbeing-related message/claim development for key brands covering all categories working with brand teams, consumer insights, regulatory affairs, nutrition research, and legal. Adapt global for local context as needed. Provide marketing teams with support across various communication media (packaging, advertising, websites, documents aimed at healthcare professionals, etc.)
• Support the development of scientific communication materials/resources on a broad array of nutrition & wellbeing topics for professional and consumer audiences
• Support execution of health influencer outreach programs to drive brand credibility and growth
• Support internal nutrition & wellbeing education programs increasing knowledge and awareness on relevant topics
• Support nutrition conference strategies as needed

QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION

Minimum BSc Hons degree in Human Nutrition or a related field is required. Master's degree is preferred.

EXPERIENCE and SKILLS

• Experience of food industry
• Robust expertise in Human Nutrition.
• Stays abreast of latest food and nutrition trends.
• Understanding of applied nutrition and industry, government, and professional health community practices related to food and nutrition issues
• Excellent communicator with the ability to translate scientific knowledge into relevant and credible messages and deliver powerful presentations
• Experience identifying consumer driven nutrition insights, trends, and opportunities, and connecting with scientific knowledge to develop simple, accurate, and supportable consumer messages that drive sales
• Strong influencing/impact skills
• Project management skills, ability to multi-task, and meet multiple deadlines
• Some technical knowledge of food categories processes, technologies, ingredients and formulae
• Ability to handle complexity, working with cross country/category teams as well as a large number of internal partners
• Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Strong collaboration within x-regional nutrition teams, solid inter-personal skills, project management, team-player and stakeholder management.
• Capable of working with good degree of autonomy

Additional information:

Must have a right to work

36 hours per week (9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday)

£28.37 per hour - £35.47 per hour Umbrella (Inside IR35)

- Select Engineering Limited