As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for a Regulatory Affairs Officer to join our Technical Team on a 12-month fixed term contract basis.
As Regulatory Affairs Officer, you will be responsible for ensuring the legal compliance of Hotel Chocolat’s recipes, labelling and artwork.
Working closely with the Regulatory Affairs Manager and the wider Technical Development Team, this role plays a vital part in ensuring that all Hotel Chocolat products meet the standards required by all markets and puts the customer and brand protection first.
As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and Company pension contributions, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.
The onsite location for this role is at our Factory ‘Hadley Park’, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, right in the heart of where our chocolates are made and where weekly, we can produce between 4 to 6 million of the chocolates we all know and love.
Hadley Park is just 5 minutes off the A141 and 1.3 miles from Huntingdon train station, with direct rail links to London King’s Cross.
What you’ll be doing….
1. Accurate set up of all new ingredients within the Product Vision Development system and ensuring that the correct legal declared name is allocated for each material.
2. The creation of robust and accurate legal labelling information for all Hotel Chocolat products including branded third party produced products.
3. Validation of all product marketing copy to ensure legal compliance.
4. The circulation and management of artwork approvals on the Canopy artwork approval tool. Ensuring that all relevant checks have been completed correctly.
5. Approval of all Hotel Chocolat product artwork against the legal labelling and marketing copy brief.
6. Approval of all Hotel Chocolate printer proofs and first delivery samples.
In addition, this role may be asked to complete further tasks to support the wider Technical Development Department that are not detailed here.
Who you are…
The Regulatory Affairs Officer will have to show proactivity and be able to build strong relationships with other colleagues working in cross-functional positions. In addition, it is essential that the candidate can work independently and communicate clearly across different levels of the business.
Essential
7. Previous experience of working in a Regulatory Affairs role or similar.
8. Strong knowledge and understanding of legal food labelling requirements for the UK including provision of food information to consumers.
9. Experience in the accurate approval of product artworks.
10. Ability to challenge and advise the business on product labelling requirements.
11. Strong communication and relationship building skills.
12. A strong eye for detail and driven by robustness and accuracy of information.
Desirable
13. Knowledge and understanding of global food labelling legislation including the USA and Japan.
14. Experience working with Product Development Tools and systems.
15. Ability to stay abreast with new and changing legislation affecting the food industry.
16. Food Science or Nutrition background and training.
Who are we?
We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.
A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.
Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.