Senior Regulatory Officer (UK/EU)

About the role

The Regulatory and Compliance team ensures product formulation, labelling, and website compliance for all THG Nutrition and Beauty brands globally. The Senior Regulatory Officer will focus on UK and EU regulations for food and food supplements, reporting to the EU Regulatory Manager. This role involves brand protection and ensuring products can be marketed and sold legally across international markets.

Responsibilities

• Managing one Regulatory Associate, including setting objectives and cascading departmental objectives to direct reports.
• Supporting from a regulatory position on key business projects.
• Upkeep and maintenance of a comprehensive suite of applicable regulations and guidance.
• Proactively identifying potential Regulatory / compliance issues and working together with the senior members of the team to reduce and/or eradicate their impact.
• Oversee and input on regulatory requirements for New Product Development (NPD) and Existing Product Development (EPD) for THG Nutrition Brands including Myprotein, Myvegan, and Myvitamins.
• Working closely with NPD on new formulations to ensure compliance in the UK and EU Member States.
• Reviewing labelling, marketing material (including campaigns/scripts/clearcast/assets) to check that they are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Advising on nutrition and health claims, ensuring they are correctly worded on product labelling and websites.
• Reviewing company websites to check that content is compliant with country specific regulatory requirements.
• Completing food supplement product registration in in the UK and EU Member States.
• Assessing regulatory risk against commercial requirements and completing risk assessments as and when necessary.
• Participating in Trade Association meetings, review communications, gather relevant data to help lobby for change as and when relevant.
• Horizon scanning - Using own initiative to define upcoming regulatory challenges in the UK / EU market based on changes in regulations and/or market trends.
• Supporting on internal and external auditing including BRC and ISO (training provided).
• Regularly review policies to ensure they are up to date.
• Create training materials & provide training/upskilling for team members, wider teams and stakeholders as required.
• Establishing and maintaining a strong working relationship with key stakeholders (NPD, Marketing, Brand, Commercial teams etc).
• Supporting on routine nutrition analyses.

Required skills

• Food regulation
• Food labelling
• Nutrition
• Food Science
• Food Safety
• Communication skills
• Time management
• IT skills

Nice to have

• Food supplement registration
• Oracle Brand Compliance
• Team management

Qualifications

• Qualification in Nutrition, Food Technology, Food Law, Food Science, Food Safety or other related subject

Benefits

• Bespoke development programmes
• Upskilling programme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Birthday day off
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Compassionate leave
• Buy back up to 3 days annual leave
• Volunteer leave
• In-house GP and Dentist appointments
• Employee Assistance Programme

About the Company

THG is a global ecommerce group and a leader in beauty and sports nutrition, with a portfolio including brands such as Myprotein, LOOKFANTASTIC, ESPA, and Cult Beauty.