Nutrition and Dietetic Assistant

Job Introduction

Do you consider yourself a data wizz? Are you passionate about Nutrition and Dietetics? If so, we are currently looking to recruit an experienced Nutrition and Dietetic Assistant to provide expert nutrition and dietetics advice on food products and nutrition across our wide-ranging customer base; from local schools, to top restaurants, prisons and healthcare providers. 

You will be responsible for supporting our Dietetic team in capturing, collating, verifying and processing nutrition, allergen and ingredient data against product specifications. You will be a confident decision maker with strong administrative skills, able to manage your workload and general nutrition enquiries effectively, both within the business and external Consumers and Guests. Maintaining a high level of confidentiality while handling sensitive and confidential information. 

To bring success to this role you’ll need to be a strong communicator, able to interface at all levels with our business segments, buyers, product data base teams, system administrators and external stakeholders e.g. suppliers/manufacturers. You will also support the implementation of pilot projects relating to a change in process or new regulations, such as; the allergen Pre-packed for Direct Sale.

If you are a pro with Excel, data dashboards, and have a proactive and flexible attitude, able to thrive while working under the pressure, and providing support and guidance to more junior members of the team, we would like to hear from you! 

This position will be a home based role, adhoc travel to Sodexo offices may be required once it is safe to do so. 

Role Responsibility

• Support the nutrition and dietetic team in collecting, verifying and processing nutrition, allergen and ingredient information in support of Nutrition and Allergen regulations
• Be responsible for independently managing and verifying the data, guiding the formation of the data and supporting the administrators 
• Work closely with supply chain, master data team and systems on product specification specifically on nutrition, allergens and ingredients as well as other required nutritional attributes
• Assist Head of nutrition and dietetics with menus analysis across the range of service lines and consumer requirements.
• Conduct regular sense checking of nutrition data within the database and within the recipe management system
• To support the deployment of allergen and nutritional labelling across the business on new and existing regulations including Allergen information on Pre-packed for Direct PPDS  
• Provide expertise guidance on nutrition and allergens, and manage workload and nutrition queries effectively and independently

For further information regarding the role responsibilities, please see the attached job description. 

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified Registered Nutritionist with proven experience in Food industry or equivalent
• Proven track record of working experience with data and regulatory compliance, maintenance of product lines/specifications or product development
• Working knowledge on Food labelling/ Food specifications /Allergens/ product specifications and labelling functions
• Familiarity with dietary analysis and nutrition analysis software packages
• Effective communicator both written and verbal, able to demonstrate discretion and deal with confidential issues especially in relation to allergies and consumer querie
• Meticulous and accurate with a good knowledge of numeracy
• Organised and methodical and able to multitask
• Demonstrable working knowledge of Technology systems and software including databases and spreadsheets, word, Excel and Outlook

Package Description

Salary - Competitive salary + flexible benefits

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs:

• Dental insurance
• Critical illness cover (for yourself and your partner)
• Kids Pass (offering a range of discounts on family friendly attractions)
• Travel insurance
• Technology
• Gourmet Society membership
• Tastecard
• Will writing
• Wine offer
• GymFlex
• Holiday trading
• Private Medical Insurance

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process