Job Description

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 looking to use and expand on their skills in PR and Marketing whilst also applying their nutrition expertise to food 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.
Who we are
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.
Responsibilities
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 strategies from a diet, health and nutrition perspective)

About you
Essential:

• Dietitian, with a BSc/MSc equivalent in Dietetics (HCPC registered) or a Registered Nutritionist (ANutr/RNutr) with equivalent degree in Human Nutrition.
• Full driving licence
• 2-3 years minimum experience in a role contributing nutrition expertise either in industry or the NHS.

Desirable:

• Experience practicing and working as a dietitian/nutritionist at a senior level
• Applying nutrition expertise in the retail sector, with a knowledge of HFSS products
• Experience of working with catering teams in a food service environment
• Food manufacturing and product innovation experience
• Member of organisations such as BDA, Nutition Society, FDF
• Knowledge and working experience of nutritional standards in hospitals, care homes, education settings including early years and local authority settings in the UK
• Knowledge of public health nutrition guidelines and/or School Food Standards

Personal Qualities:

• Ability to apply evidence-based nutrition
• Able to communicate with and work well with colleagues and customers at a wide variety of levels - you will need to be able to communicate complex nutrition messages and information relating to our products effectively to people with minimal baseline understanding all the way through to people who are experts in these areas
• Confident and enjoys presenting
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage time effectively
• Ability to apply influencing skills and be a supportive working colleague
• Work under own initiative
• Team player
• Conscientious
• Organised
• Passionate about good food

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary - accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

Our Values
As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.
We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.
We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK's most vulnerable people.
We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.
Our ethical standards are recognised by the and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito's commitment to a more .
We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.

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