Dietitian​/Nutritionist

Overview

This role offers a fantastic opportunity for a Dietitian or Nutritionist looking to establish a career with a company where great food and nutrition is an integral part of the business. Reporting directly to the Senior Dietitian, you will have a dynamic role supporting nutrition standards, ensuring we make a real difference to our customers and business through the application of evidence-based nutrition.

Based in the New Product Development (NPD) team, the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering outstanding nutrition support across key areas of our business including Healthcare, Care Homes, Education and Wiltshire Farm Foods. As such, this role will directly impact and support the nutritional well-being of all our customers including those in hospital, care home residents, children in schools and customers in their own homes.

This role will work closely with NPD, Marketing & PR, and the Specialist Nutrition team while also supporting colleagues in business and support roles. This will involve supporting national exhibitions/shows and attending food and nutrition conferences. Training and support will be provided.

This is a rare opportunity for a dietitian/nutritionist lookingto use and expand on their skills inPR and Marketing whilst also applying their nutrition expertise tofood development.

This role is based at our Head Office in Trowbridge, though a hybrid role will be considered with 3 days per week on site.

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dietitians and chefs, then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Business Unit support and customer service

• Customer facing support to our business unit teams across all sectors of the business including Healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, Care homes, Schools and Community meals. Including presentations, responding to customer queries, menu development & planning and nutrition training.
• Manage dietary and nutrition information in brochures (e.g. Wiltshire Farm Foods special diets guide).
• Support Business unit teams at key conferences and trade shows.
• Liaise regularly with dietitians, nutritionists and other healthcare professionals to provide direct support and advice on apetito products, systems and service and to build strong customer relationships.
• Engage with customers and consumers to stimulate and identify new opportunities .

Product development

• Work closely with colleagues to identify, research and manage new product development opportunities that create competitive advantage and maintain or improve appropriate nutrition standards
• Specify nutrition and diet parameters for new and improved products and ensure these are met.
• Ensure all Health and Nutrition claims are compliant with current legislation.
• Work closely with the Specialist Nutrition team to define special diet specifications and briefs.

Staff training and support

• Strive to continually raise the nutrition and dietary expertise in our business. (e.g. through training programmes for new product launches , inductions and across our Wiltshire Farm Foods network).

Policy and practice

• Keep apetito up-to-date with nutrition and diet activities and trends (particularly in our key markets) and proactively drive related policies and reviews.
• Maintain nutrition standards across all sectors of the business including healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, care homes and community meals.
• Challenge current practice with a view to gaining competitive advantage through nutrition and diet improvements.
• Contribute externally in nutrition areas of strategic importance to the company (external professional Associations)

Marketing and public relations

• Support marketing activities requiring nutrition and diet input (e.g. attend key multiplier conferences & trade shows, support P.R. activities, produce articles for newsletters and other publications and advise on marketing…