Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Analyst – French speaking

Are you interested in the food industry? Are you an enthusiastic learner who enjoys research? Would you like to have a clearer idea on how food and beverage products are regulated?

Leatherhead Food Research provides expertise and support to the global food and beverage sector. We provide practical solutions that cover all stages of a product’s lifecycle from consumer insight, ingredient innovation to food safety consultancy and global regulatory advice.

The Regulatory Department provides members and clients with an unparalleled global food and beverage regulatory advisory service covering more than 160 countries. Our services include assessing the legal compliance of all aspects of their products. In growing our business, we look for exceptional, hard-working and hands-on individuals who will flourish in a dynamic and stimulating environment.

The Opportunity

We are looking for exceptional, hard-working and well organized fluent French speaking graduate to join our regulatory team.

If successful, you will have the opportunity to work alongside our international team and gain insight into our regulatory services and the exciting challenges we work on. You will provide regulatory expertise and support to the global food and beverage sector. This is a unique opportunity to experience clients and understand the food manufacture lifecycle from concept to marketing. You will have an action-packed induction week where you will be equipped with extensive regulatory knowledge that will help you along your way. As you will be learning to work independently you will need to be self-motivated with great time management skills

Role Requirements:

• Be a fluent French speaker
• Have a degree in a Science subject
• Have an interest in regulatory affairs
• 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.
• Have good writing skills

Day in the life

As regulatory analyst, you will have the opportunity to employ and improve your critical and analytical skills on one or more projects, simultaneously expanding your knowledge of food and beverage regulatory affairs. Projects often have tight deadlines, therefore you will be required to multitask, maintaining excellent quality, consistency and accuracy on the reports. You will enjoy a variety of tasks such as artworks and formulations checks, food and beverage compliance assessments, development of a regulatory framework for products coming to a new market, among others.

In addition you will attend internal regulatory meetings which will give you exposure to the wider challenges of the industry.

You will be based at our Leatherhead Food Research office in Epsom, Surrey.

Career development

The role will suit individuals who wish to advance their career prospects by picking up real world experience on regulatory affairs on a global food and beverage sector.