Science and Nutrition Lead, Europe & UK

Science and Nutrition Lead, Europe & UK

Glanbia Performance Nutrition

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey  

The Opportunity

We are exciting to share that we are hiring for a Science & Nutrition Lead, EU & UK for Glanbia Performance Nutrition!

This will play a pivotal role in strengthening Optimum Nutrition’s credibility, education leadership, and premium positioning across the region.

This is a senior, high-impact role for a nutrition expert who thrives at the intersection of science, storytelling, and commercial execution. You will act as the authoritative nutrition voice for the brand—internally and externally—ensuring our teams, partners, and consumers experience consistent, compliant, and compelling nutrition education at every touchpoint.

Reporting into the International Head of Education and Science you will be a part of a centre of excellence to ensure we have world class science-backed business

This is a permanent full time opportunity and can be based in Dublin, Ireland OR London, UK.

Key Responsibilities include:

Education & Capability Building - Internally

• Delivering best-in-class nutrition education across commercial, marketing, partnerships, field and customer-facing teams
• Leading and evolving Live Sports Nutrition School (SNS Live) as a core internal learning platform
• Creating engaging education toolkits, learning modules and product training for all new launches
• Ensuring consistent understanding of claims, compliance and category science across the region

Category Leadership & Commercial Enablement - Externally

• Delivering education to retailer and distributor head offices and store teams
• Supporting key commercial meetings with science-led expertise
• Building category stories around usage occasions, trends and performance needs
• Equipping sales and field teams with credible, confident nutrition knowledge

Consumer Education & Brand Authority

• Supporting ON.com as a hub for education, SEO and discovery
• Supporting and training the  Optimum Nutrition’s nutrition spokesperson for media and PR
• Provide rapid expert input for reactive opportunities and issues management

Partnerships with Europe Market Scene Leaders and Content Creators 

• Providing nutrition support to elite sports partnerships, athletes and ambassadors
• Ensuring quality and scientific accuracy of athlete and influencer content
• Delivering nationwide gym education programmes and staff training
• Supporting major marketing campaigns

INNOVATION & Product Leadership

• Responsible for local innovation support
• Provide end to end scientific support across current and future product innovation pipelines
• Input into formulation, ingredient selection and product positioning
• Validate product claims, consumer messaging and education materials
• Support compliance with Informed Sport and regulatory requirements
• Lead scientific storytelling to support key brand platforms, including Isopure

The skills you will bring to the team:

• Registered Sports Nutritionist / Dietitian with a Master qualification in Sports Nutrition required
• Strong experience in sports, performance or applied nutrition (2-3 years’ experience)
• Proven ability to deliver engaging education to diverse audiences
• Excellent understanding of EFSA claims landscape, compliance and evidence-based nutrition
• Confident communicator who can translate complex science into simple, compelling messages
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with marketing, commercial and partnership teams
• Passion for performance nutrition and premium brand building

Where and how you will work  

The opportunity will be based in Dublin OR London with hybrid working arrangements available which offer you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.  

What we would like to offer you!  

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, healthcare.

About Glanbia  

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide   

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.