Regulatory Affairs Correspondent

**Who we are?**

Leatherhead Food Research provides expert support to the global food, beverage, supplement and pet food sectors and deliver this through our Membership Service which runs to 250+ members. We provide essential information to our Members through a number ofplatforms, including Daily Food News, Global Legal Highlights, White Papers and webinars, therefore keeping our Members at the forefront of changes that may impact them, whether it be for ingredients or processing or sustainability or health & nutrition.

**The opportunity**

Leatherhead Food Research is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic individual to join our Membership Team and contribute to regular provision of high-quality industry insights for our Global Legal Highlights, White Papers and Webinars.

The successful applicant will work under the direction of the Principal Consultant, and will have either a leading or supporting role in provision of the Membership collateral.

The role is full-time and will be based at our Great Burgh office, Epsom. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a new challenge and to progress their career.

**A day in the life**

Your day will start off by collating and reviewing all regulatory and policy materials that will be provided by our Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Team for input into our weekly Global Legal Highlights that are sent out to our Members. This would includeinterpretation and raising awareness of the implications or impacts for the food businesses, and appropriate presentation within the Global Legal Highlights framework.

This could be followed by supporting our Scientific & Regulatory Affairs’ Project Managers on carrying out horizon-scanning or forward-looking analysis tools to supplement or reinforce their project findings. You may be asked to research for a particulartopic, such as botanicals or recycling schemes or HFSS policies, and identifying the current and potential trends happening within specific countries.

You may then be asked to help shape the narratives from our Scientific & Regulatory Affairs team into a White Paper or a webinar or a blog, therefore raising our Members’ awareness and interest. These could focus on current hot topics or on forthcoming issueslikely to impact on the food & beverage supply chains from field to fork.

**Key responsibilities**:
- Compilation, review and delivery of Global Legal Highlights to Leatherhead Food Research’s Members
- Support management of Global Legal Highlights platform
- Support the Scientific & Regulatory Affairs News Analyst in execution of Leatherhead’s Daily Food News
- Identification, collation and provision of regulatory insight materials for Scientific & Regulatory Affairs’ Project Managers
- Creation and provision of Regulatory-focused White Papers, Webinars and blogs by working closely with the Scientific & Regulatory Affairs team members
**Experience and qualifications required**:

- Awareness of regulatory and policy matters relevant to food-related sectors
- Ability to distil and articulate complex scientific and regulatory materials into clear implications for the food-related sectors, and must have a questioning mind.
- 2 years’ plus experience of working in the food regulations industry
- Have a proactive, positive and enthusiastic "can do" attitude
- Have enthusiasm to work within multidisciplinary teams and multi-task across projects.
- Have excellent organisational and time management skills
- A food-related science degree (or equivalent)

**Career development**

We are committed to supporting employees and make a focused effort to offer bespoke training to allow each individual to thrive within their environment and realise personal potential.