Nutrition Strategy & Communication Manager - K1209 in Birmingham

Location: Bournville, Birmingham

Hours of work: 36 hours per week (9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday)

Pay Rate: £38.50ph – £48.24ph Umbrella Co Basis (depending on experience)

Start Date: Preferably 1st December

Duration: Maternity Cover to November 2027

Reference: K1209

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride. 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.).
• Provide strategic guidance to product development and marketing on nutrition criteria, assessing, and report compliance with established internal nutrition requirements.
• Lead internal nutrition and well-being education programs to increase employee knowledge and awareness on relevant topics.
• Implement local health influencer outreach programs and nutrition conference strategies to drive brand credibility and growth.
• 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

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career.
• 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 an official professional nutrition body is preferred.

More about this role

Our Client is currently seeking a Nutrition Strategy and Communications Manager/Specialist for its MEU region (all countries across Western and Eastern Europe with $9.8B in net rev) with focus on the UK who can develop and drive nutrition strategy and communication initiatives. The role reports to the Nutrition Strategy & Communications MEU Lead within the Scientific & Regulatory Affairs/Nutrition department. Interactions will be across multiple functional groups within MEU and globally including Research & Development, Scientific Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Affairs, Marketing and Sales.

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.

EDUCATION

Minimum BSc Hons degree in Human Nutrition or a related field is required. Masters degree is preferred.

EXPERIENCE and SKILLS

• Strong level of work experience in the 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.

INSIDE IR35

Please note that our clients are unable to offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.