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Nutritionist

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Cardiff

On-site

GBP 30,000 - 45,000

Full time

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Job summary

A leading UK university in Cardiff is seeking a Nutrition and Health Specialist to support food and drink product development. The role involves collaborating with manufacturing partners and providing expertise in nutrition regulations and product compliance. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in food manufacturing. This position offers opportunities for knowledge transfer, mentoring, and practical kitchen-based development activities.

Qualifications

  • A degree in an appropriate, relevant science discipline.
  • Registered with the Association for Nutrition.
  • Knowledge and understanding of nutrition and dietary requirements required.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with food and drink manufacturing business partners.
  • Conduct diagnostic assessments on nutrient profiles.
  • Manage development data and compliance information.

Skills

Knowledge of current social, economic and market drivers
Understanding of nutrition and nutritional guidelines
Effective communication and interpersonal skills
Proficient in MS Office and Excel
Ability to manage multiple projects

Education

Degree in Food Science or equivalent
Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr)

Tools

Nutritional calculation software

Job description

Core purpose of role

The role is to support the delivery of innovation across nutrition & health focussed food and drink product development. With a focus on Nutrition and Health, the role will give support to partner food and drink manufacturing businesses looking at both developing and re-engineering safe and legal food and drink products to meet current and emerging health targets. Delivering support to businesses in Wales via Welsh Government funded projects and via the Food Industry Centre mechanisms, processes, and project management requirements.

The role provides an opportunity for knowledge transfer and mentoring to the FIC team, food manufacturers and stakeholders as well as keeping abreast with current and emerging health policies, nutrition targets and initiatives.

To contribute to the development of high-quality, nutrition-focused food and drink products, meeting product safety and legal compliance requirements, in a dynamic food and drink manufacturing sector environment.

Key responsibilities and contributions

  1. Collaborate with the Food and Drink manufacturing business partners and the FIC product development team to influence new and re-engineered food and drink products by setting nutritional requirement briefs for best practice and/or alignment to targets set by Government, Retailers, or other stakeholders.
  2. Undertake diagnostic assessments, review and communicate information on nutrient profiles, nutrition targets and portion size information across multiple product categories to aid continuous improvement across the sector.
  3. Maintaining information on compliance with industry regulations, legislation, guidance, codes of practice and other standards or requirements relating to nutrition, one health and product category.
  4. Maintaining and implementing mechanisms and procedures to review and manage development data, including nutritional data i.e. per 100g and Back of Pack (BOP) product data, across a range of product categories
  5. Provide ad hoc support with customer queries, recipe planning, and other nutrition-related business needs including the use of digital solutions and industry support software such as nutrition calculation programs i.e. Nutricalc.
  6. Implement an efficient holistic approach to re-engineer food and drink recipes to meet specific nutrition, shelf-life, and safety requirements in partner companies, identifying areas of development and improvement in line with national guidelines and recommendations. Co-ordinate project meetings as required in line with university protocols, communicating key information to senior managers and clients in a variety of formats.
  7. Willingness to develop training materials and deliver content via mentoring, workshops, presenting at events and conferences to a wide variety of audiences and through multiple delivery mechanisms.
  8. Undertaking practical and robust kitchen-based recipe development, co-ordinating and / or attending taste panels, preparing customer nutritional reports, and supporting factory scale up trials at client manufacturing sites as required.
  9. A keen passion for food and wellbeing is essentialalong with an ability to keep up to date with latest nutrition research and legislation at Wales, UK, and international level.
  10. Any other duties commensurate with grade, skills and abilities as may be required from time to time
  11. Ability to travel to partner company sites including a full UK driving licence, and willingness to potentially stay away from home occasionally.

Person specification

A degree in an appropriate, relevant science discipline (i.e. Food Science, Food Technology, Food Nutrition or equivalent).

Registered with the Association for Nutrition - Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr).

Essential experience, knowledge, and skills

  1. Knowledge of current social, economic and market drivers in the food manufacturing sector relating to nutrition and health.
  2. Have knowledge and understanding of nutrition, nutritional guidelines and special dietary requirements including HFSS, Nutrient profiling models, and food and drink product traffic light labelling.
  3. Previous working experience in a food/drink manufacturing business in areas of Nutrition, New Product Development, R&D.
  4. Working knowledge of at least 2 food / drink product categories.
  5. Working knowledge of Product Safety Risk Assessment methods and review of HACCP principles aligned to product design and development.
  6. Knowledge of raw material risk assessment, novel foods, and ingredient sourcing.
  7. Working knowledge of functional ingredients and their uses in product re-design / development, including permitted usage and application rates.
  8. Working knowledge and previous experience of digital solutions and application in the field of product design and development e.g. Nutritional calculation software.
  9. Previous experience of product specification generation and label / artwork generation and approval.
  10. Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
  11. Accomplished with MS Office, general IT competencies including the use of Excel spreadsheets and other applications.
  12. Ability to work in a flexible pro-active approach managing multiple projects/enquiries at any one time and in line with project management procedures as stipulated by the FIC.
  13. Excellent attention to detail and ability to generate reports and information to agreed timescale and for presentation to a wide audience.

Desirable

  1. Desirable to have worked within and have practical knowledge of the UK drinks sector / drinks product development.
  2. Desirable to have a formal Nutrition qualification i.e. BSc Food Nutrition.
  3. Desirable to be Registered with the Association for Nutrition as Registered Nutritionist (RNutr)
  4. Desirable to have a formal Food Safety or HACCP Level 3 qualification or above.
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