Health & Nutrition Officer

About the roleWe’re looking for a talented and passionate Health and Nutrition Officer to work with us in the Waitrose Health and Nutrition team to drive our health programmes through our products and publications. We’re committed to helping our customers and Partners make healthier choices for a happy, healthy life. This means making sure that healthier options are available, that positive nutrition is considered throughout the product development process and that there are plenty of healthy recipes and inspiration in our publications and online.

• Working pattern - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The health and nutrition team aim for around 1-2 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings. 

• Location - This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office. 

Key responsibilities

• Working with the Waitrose customer and product teams to ensure accuracy of all lifestyle and allergen claims for customer facing recipe materials 

• Providing nutritional guidance in the recipe development process. 

• Supporting with programmes to drive healthier diets and lifestyles for Partners

• Generating reports for internal use and to respond to customer service queries on the above.

• Supporting with health and nutrition policies & reporting, including data collection, analysis and recommendations 

• Horizon scanning and research on issues related to nutrition, health and wellbeing

Essential skills/experience you’ll need
 

• A nutrition degree accredited with the Association for Nutrition or equivalent professional qualification

• Good IT and data management skills 

• Good written and verbal communicator 

• Excellent organizational skills 

• Strong interest in and passion for health and nutrition 

• Experience in supporting the delivery of successful strategic projects 

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Sustainability related qualification 

• Relevant industry experience 

• Knowledge of application of health and nutrition in a retail context

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About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.