About THG

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.

Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.

From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG.

With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for?

Location: THG ICON, 7-9 Sunbank Ln, Altrincham WA15 0AF

Life at THG Nutrition

THG Nutrition is home to some of the world’s most trusted and best-loved wellbeing and nutrition brands, including Myprotein, the world’s largest online sports nutrition brand, alongside Myvitamins and MP Activewear.

Our brands and people exist to break boundaries — to power and empower those who want more. We move fast, challenge convention, and back ourselves to win. These values shape how we work every day.

About Regulatory & Compliance and the Role

The Regulatory and Compliance team's primary focus is to ensure product formulation, labelling and website compliance for all THG Nutrition and Beauty brands globally. THG owns and operates many leading brands including LookFantastic.com, Grow Gorgeous, Mio Skincare, ESPA and MyProtein.

THG is looking to recruit a Senior Regulatory Officer (UK / EU) with a good understanding of UK / EU Regulations pertaining to labelling of food and food supplements for UK/EU Countries, to join our Regulatory & Compliance Team. The role is reporting into the EU Regulatory Manager.

With a focus on brand protection, the Regulatory & Compliance Team plays a critical role in ensuring that our products can be marketed and sold legally all over the world. The role offers hybrid working from our Head Office near Manchester Airport, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to the Global success of The Hut Group and our market-leading brands.

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.

Requirements:

Qualification in Nutrition, Food Technology, Food Law, Food Science, Food Safety or other related subject.
Great understanding of regulations regarding food and food supplements and usage of claims in the UK/EU.
Great understanding of food industry standard practices.
Excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and good time management.
Ability to communicate across different departments e.g. NPD, Brand, Marketing, SQA, QA, Packaging Artwork etc to ensure business needs are met.
Understanding of food supplement product registration process in EU Member States would be desirable but not essential.
Good IT Skills - (Email, Excel, Word and SharePoint).
Experience of product specification systems (especially Oracle Brand Compliance) would be desirable but not essential.
If you have experience managing, supporting and guiding a small team this would be an advantage.

What's in it for me?

Career Development

Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Don't want to work on your birthday? We don't either! Enjoy your day off on us!
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
Buy back up to 3 days each year.
Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12 months.

Wellbeing Support

Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP and Dentist.
Access our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), provided by Bupa.
State-of-the-art on-site gym.

Other Perks

Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
On-site staff shop.
Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1,000 when they pass their probation.
Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.