Senior Dietitian

at  apetito

THE ROLE AND TEAM

Our Senior Dietitian role is a key position within apetito, responsible for leading on nutrition standards and ensuring we make a real difference to our customers and business through the application of evidence based nutrition and dietary solutions and service.
The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering outstanding nutrition and dietetic support across all key areas of our business including Healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, Care homes and Education, in addition to providing support to New product development, Marketing & PR, Category management and our Specialist nutrition team.
Our Dietitians have a safe-guarding responsibility, to challenge and inform how nutrition impacts our customers, whether a patient in hospital, a resident in a Care Home, a child in Education or someone in their own at home - nutritious food is essential to health and wellbeing and the Senior Dietitian is integral to ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional nutrition solutions.
This role is based at our Head Office in Trowbridge where you will be required to work onsite a minimum 2 days per week. We would welcome applications from candidates looking to work part time hours.

Responsibilities:

• Providing customer facing support to our business unit teams e.g. delivering presentations , responding to customer queries , supporting tastings , customer meetings, conferences and product launches.
• Liaising regularly with external dietitians and other healthcare professionals to provide support and advice on apetito products, systems and service and to build strong customer relationships.
• Supporting with the identification research and shaping of new product development opportunities.
• Specifying nutrition and diet standards for new and improved products
• Ensuring all Health and Nutrition claims and policies are compliant with current legislation
• Striving to continually raise the nutrition and dietary standards and expertise in our business.
• Providing support / writing of content for publications e.g. product / range releases, thought leadership articles and short articles on key topics.
• Hosting, recording and planning podcasts
• Filming content for external and internal business use.
• Managing dietary and nutrition information in brochures
• Providing management and leadership support to the Development dietitian
• Providing subject matter expertise to the wider team.
• Leading on nutrition related subjects as a key member of our Food & Packaging Policy team , ensuring relevant legislation and policy changes are represented.
• Developing and evolving robust nutrition related strategies to create competitive advantage and make a real difference.
• Increasing visibility and influence in nutrition areas of strategic importance to the company (e.g. with external professional Associations