UK & EU Regulatory & Compliance Officer – Food & Supplements

Location: ICON 1, M90 5AA

About Central Functions

Central Functions is formed of the teams and people that serve the entire business. These people are integral to the smooth running of the business; ensuring everyone is paid on time, that materials are sourced and arrive promptly, that we meet our legal obligations and that our health, safety, and security is safeguarded.

About the Compliance Team and the Role

The Regulatory and Compliance team's primary focus is to ensure product formulation, specification, 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 an EU / UK Regulatory & Compliance Officer with a good understanding of EU Regulations pertaining to labelling of food and food supplements for UK/EU Countries, to join our Regulatory & Compliance Team. The role reports into the Senior Compliance Officer.

With a focus on brand protection, the Regulatory & Compliance Team plays a critical role in ensuring that our products can be marketed and sold legally all over the world. The role offers hybrid working from our Head Office near Manchester Airport, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to the Global success of The Hut Group and our market-leading brands.

Responsibilities:

• Initial focus on a key business priority re-branding project for the Nutrition Division – Involvement in the migration of the brand new look & feel of Nutrition Brands such as Myprotein, Myvegan and Myvitamins. Supporting from a Regulatory & Compliance position, ensuring legal compliance across specifications, labelling and the websites.
• Writing and maintaing finished product specifications & reviewing raw material specifications.
• Collecting and reviewing technical data for Nutrition projects.
• 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 and websites.
• Proactively identifying potential Regulatory / compliance issues and working together with the senior members of the team to reduce and/or eradicate their impact.
• Working closely with New Product Development (NPD) on new formulations to ensure compliance in the UK and EU Member States for THG Nutrition Brands including Myprotein, Myvegan, Myvitamins, MyPro and Exante.
• Reviewing company websites to check that content is compliant with country specific regulatory requirements.
• Upkeep and maintenance of a comprehensive suite of applicable regulations and guidance.
• Managing and taking accountability of own workload.
• Establishing and maintaining a strong working relationship with key stakeholders (NPD, Marketing, Brand, Commercial teams etc).

Requirements:

• Qualification in Food Technology, Food Law, Food Science, Food Safety or other related subject
• Ideally 2-3 years’ experience within a relevant Compliance/ Regulatory or specification role within the food industry, ideally with experience in the food supplements category.
• Good understanding of regulations regarding Food /  Food Supplements and usage of claims in the EU (including UK)
• Good understanding of food industry standard practices
• Great attention to detail, strong communication skills, good time management skills.
• Ability to communicate across different departments e.g. NPD, Brand, Marketing, SQA, QA, Packaging Artwork etc to ensure business needs are met.
• Good IT Skills - (Email, Excel, Word and SharePoint).
• Usage of product specification systems (especially Oracle Brand Compliance) would be desirable but not essential.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Onsite Doctor
• Employee discounts
• Gym Discounts
• Company bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme

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.