Senior Sector Regulatory Executive (Associations)

Salary circa £41k with excellent benefits including 25 days holiday, private healthcare, leisure travel insurance, health & wellbeing allowance, interest-free season ticket loan and cycle-to-work scheme.

Hours: 35 hours per week; hybrid working (2-3 days in the office per week).

This role will predominantly provide technical and secretariat support to the UK Tea and Infusions Association, keeping them up to date across a broad range of policy and regulatory requirements. You will work closely with their CEO along with Food and Drink Federation (FDF) policy experts across a range of food safety topics - for example Microplastics and Pesticide use - as well as keeping an overview of a range of broader policies like the impact of trade deals. You will work with technical experts in food manufacturing companies and need to confidently liaise with government officials as well as a range of stakeholders both in the UK and EU. This opportunity is part of the Associations team, which sits in the broader Regulation and Science team at FDF, the representative body of the UK’s largest manufacturing sector. The Association team provides technical and secretariat support to a range of sector specific trade bodies, who are members of FDF.

Key responsibilities:

• Monitoring and analysis of scientific, regulatory and policy developments in defined areas across GB, EU and Codex Alimentarius, with a food safety focus.
• Providing written summaries of regulatory changes as well as verbal updates to small groups of companies.
• Extensive liaison including with FDF regulatory and policy colleagues, government officials, European Associations.
• Providing Secretariat support for several committees, both technical and Board level, including preparing agendas, papers and minutes.
• Website content input and management of information flow to members.
• Deputising for the Sector Regulatory Manager in their absence.

Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in food science or another relevant discipline.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with a demonstrable ability to produce accurate written summaries of scientific and regulatory information.
• Experience in food industry, regulatory authority, trade association or similar organisation is desirable.
• Experience of food safety and/or regulatory policy development is desirable.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to work across a wide range of issues, managing multiple deadlines.
• Ability to build and maintain working relationships within companies and with key external stakeholders at a range of seniorities.
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills, including previous experience of providing secretariat to committee meetings.
• Responsible self-starter but also a highly motivated team player.

The role will include attending external meetings and some travel to European meetings.

To apply: Please send us your CV and salary expectations to recruitment@fdf.org.uk. Only successful applicants will be contacted.

Equal Opportunities: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments for disabilities or medical conditions.

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is the convenor, adviser and voice of the UK food & drink industry, the largest manufacturing sector in the country.