EU Regulatory Associate

About THG

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition. Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition. From Manchester to New York, we are powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG. With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for?

Location: Icon 1, WA15 0AF

About THG Nutrition

THG Nutrition is one of the world’s leading players in online sports and nutrition retail. Our brands are breaking boundaries and growing at a relentless pace. We are home to the world’s largest UK & EU online sports nutrition brand, Myprotein, operating across 50 websites and delivering to over 100 countries worldwide. Alongside our online platform, THG Nutrition is adopting a truly omnichannel approach for our own brands with sales growing across third party marketplaces, social e-commerce and retail. THG Nutrition is also evolving to offer our market leading services in manufacturing to other brands across our global manufacturing footprint. With everything from manufacture and new product development to content creation, marketing, product development and manufacturing delivered in-house, THG Nutrition is perfectly positioned to consistently deliver rapid growth in a fast-moving, global industry.

About Regulatory & Compliance and the Role

The Regulatory and Compliance team’s primary focus is to ensure product formulation, labelling and website compliance for all THG Nutrition and Beauty brands globally. THG owns and operates many leading brands including LookFantastic.com, Grow Gorgeous, Mio Skincare, ESPA and MyProtein. THG is looking to recruit a Regulatory Associate with an understanding of EU Regulations pertaining to labelling of food and food supplements for UK/EU Countries, to join our Regulatory Team. The role is reporting into the Senior Regulatory Officer. With a focus on brand protection, the Regulatory Team plays a critical role in ensuring that our products can be marketed and sold legally all over the world. As an EU Regulatory Associate you will be:

• Working on key business projects to ensure compliance in the UK and EU Member States for THG Nutrition Brands including Myprotein, Myvegan & Myvitamins.
• Working closely with New Product Development (NPD) on new formulations to ensure compliance in the UK and EU Member States for THG Nutrition Brands
• Reviewing labelling and marketing material to check that they are compliant with regional regulatory requirements.
• Advising on nutrition and health claims, ensuring they are correctly worded on product labelling, marketing materials and websites.
• Reviewing company websites to check that content is compliant with country specific regulatory requirements.
• Managing and taking accountability of own workload.
• Establishing and maintaining a strong working relationship with key stakeholders (Compliance, NPD, Marketing, Brand, Commercial teams etc).
• Complete food supplement registration across EU Member States.

What skills and experience do I need for this role?

Requirements:

• Qualification in Nutrition, Food Technology, Food Law, Food Science, Food Safety or other related subject.
• Interest in regulations regarding Food/Food Supplements, some labelling experience and usage of claims in the EU (including UK) would be advantageous.
• Understanding of food industry standard practices would be advantageous.
• Good attention to detail, strong communication skills, good time management skills.
• Ability to communicate across different departments e.g. Compliance, NPD, Brand, Marketing, SQA, QA, Packaging Artwork etc to ensure business needs are met.
• Good IT Skills – (Email, Excel, Word and SharePoint).
• Experience of product specification systems (especially Oracle Brand Compliance) would be desirable but not essential.
• Ability to prioritise, manage own workload and adapt to changing business requirements and deadlines.

What’s in it for you?

Career Development

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Enjoy your day off on us!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.

Wellbeing Support

• Access face‑to‑face and virtual appointments with our in‑house GP.
• Access our in‑house CBT therapist.
• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
• State‑of‑the‑art on‑site gym.
• Access to our on‑site physio.

Other Perks

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
• On‑site staff shop.
• Access to on‑site barber.
• Refer and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven’t heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.