Regulatory Affairs Specialist (Food Ingredients) in England

Our client is a global leader in ingredient solutions, supporting innovation across food, beverage, and nutrition markets. They drive growth through strategic partnerships with retailers, manufacturers, and health-focused brands, and are renowned for high-quality, functional ingredients that help brands meet evolving consumer needs.

The role involves:

• Ensuring full compliance with UK, EU, and global food and feed safety, quality, and defence standards, including Organic, Halal, FAMI QS, Kosher, and GFSI (BRC) requirements.
• Monitoring legislative and regulatory changes, assessing their impact on the business, and updating senior management compliance protocols as needed.
• Supporting the development and implementation of regulatory strategies for new and existing ingredients, covering allergens, REACH, Novel Foods, packaging, labelling, feed laws, residues, contaminants, and natural/botanical ingredients.
• Providing regulatory reviews of products for the quality team, coordinating with authorities on authorisations and licences, and maintaining accurate product specifications in line with EU regulations.
• Delivering regulatory training and support to quality, technical, commercial, and marketing teams across Europe to ensure compliance in all areas.
• Actively contributing to QA tasks and assisting in crisis and incident management as part of the wider management team.

Preferred hybrid arrangement: office 2 days a week; remote contract considered for candidates across the UK with a 2-hour commute (still visit office 1-2 times a month).

Requirements include:

• 5+ years of technical or regulatory experience within functional ingredients, food, feed, fine chemicals, pharmaceutical ingredients, or chemical distribution industries (Ingredients or Raw Materials experience highly preferred).
• Highly analytical, organised, and detail-oriented.
• Mandatory EU food regulatory experience; candidates without this experience will not be considered.
• Fast-paced environment requiring dynamic problem-solving.
• Team player with professional and inclusive collaboration at all levels.
• High standard of business English and proficiency in Microsoft Office on Windows.
• Self-motivated, proactive, comfortable working independently and as part of a team.
• Must be able to commute 5 days a week into the office (no hybrid option for this opportunity).

Benefits include:

• Brand new Central London offices – Hybrid 2 days a week in office or remote option (1-2 times a month).
• £Salary DOE
• 23 days holiday + Bank Holidays + 2 days at Christmas.
• Discretionary Bonus, Subsidised Gym Membership, Wi-Fi contributions, work from abroad policy, Pension, Health cash plan.

Please send your CV using the form on this page, quoting reference 16/17521/7. Confidentiality assured.