Nutrition Strategy And Communications Manager

Nutrition Strategy & Communication manager

Based in Bourneville with hybrid options

12 Month Contract

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.).

You will provide strategic guidance to product development and marketing on nutrition criteria, assessing, and report compliance with established internal nutrition requirements. In addition, you will lead internal nutrition and well-being education programs to increase employee knowledge and awareness on relevant topics and implement local health influencer outreach programs and nutrition conference strategies to drive brand credibility and growth.

This role will require you to 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

• 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 and official professional nutrition body is preferred
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RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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

QUALIFICATIONS

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

EXPERIENCE and SKILLS

Minimum 5 years of food industry experience.

• 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

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