Animal Nutritionist

Job Title: Animal Nutritionist

Location: Blackburn

Salary: Competitive hourly rate

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent 

About us:

Pets Choice is a leading Pet Food and Pet Products Manufacturer with sites based in Blackburn, Cardiff and Yatton, Somerset.

Pets are our passion!

We put all of our love, fun, understanding and inventiveness into everything we make and it shows.

About The Role:

The Animal Nutritionist will play a critical role supporting the business in developing new and existing nutritionally balanced pet food products. Collaborating with cross functional teams such as NPD & Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Technical and Quality Assurance to ensure our products are not only nutritionally complete but also appealing and safe for pets.

Responsibilities include:

Technical & NPD:

• Creating technical dossiers to support existing and new marketing claims across the Pets Choice range of products.
• Conduct research and present key pet nutritional and health trends/concerns into the development and marketing teams.
• Manage nutritional testing and any recipe modifications of Pets Choice complete and balanced products to ensure nutritional and regulatory compliance.
• Build good relationships with ingredient suppliers.
• Provide insight on innovative ingredients with potential nutritional and health benefits for pets and recommendations for NPD opportunities.
• Formulate recipes and conduct production trials for NPD/EPD projects.
• Look for opportunities to conduct ‘clinical’ trials to support product/ingredient claims.
• Assist with understanding FEDIAF, VMD and ASA labelling claims – and PARNUTS for any medicinal claims.
• Create tailored nutritional feeding plans for to support weight loss for dogs.

Marketing:

• Support in the creation of social media and communications guidelines for all brands, providing advice on product claims and Q&A’s.
• Researching, writing and editing nutritional blogs, articles and assisting with press releases.
• Provide input and approve pack copy documents and artworks from nutritional and labelling compliance.
• Attend events, trade shows, exhibitions, or trend seminars and present back findings.
• Lead change projects if nutritional changes are required.
• Collate changes to packaging to ensure ongoing packs remain compliant.
• Audit our products recipes and pack communications against competitors and contribute to sell in materials.

Sales:

• Provide training and education for staff and additional training for trade customers/vets
• Presenting at conferences/events where required
• Provide nutritional support to consumers as our in-house nutritionist via email, social media or telephone
• Assist the Customer Service team with queries relating to Shopify, subscriptions, product enquiries and complaints / concerns
• Assist with quality control queries
• Provide support for complaints relating to digestive problems to establish if there is a nutritional reason.

About you:

Qualifications and Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Animal Nutrition
• Proven track record of developing and launching successful pet food products
• Deep understanding of animal physiology, nutritional needs and ingredient functionalities
• Analytical and research skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to be self-sufficient as well as work collaboratively with teams

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Staff discount on Pets Choice products
• Good team environment within a fast growing and well-established business that is continuing to invest in the company and people

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Registered Animal Nutritionist, Animal Health and Nutrition Advisor, Animal Nutritional Advisor, Animal Nutrition Graduate, Animal Physiology may also be considered for this role.