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Recruitment Manager at IGD driving effective recruitment strategies

Are you passionate about improving the Health of the Nation and making healthy food more easily accessible to everyone?

We are looking for a confident and engaging communicator who can inspire and influence our partner organisations and customers, with their Nutritional knowledge and insight.

About the role

In this role you will own the delivery of Health programmes that support IGD’s ambition to make healthy and sustainable diets easy and accessible for everyone through nurturing and growing our network of external and internal stakeholders and partners to inform our approach and maximise impact.

Acting as an ambassador for IGD’s Health and Sustainable Diets agenda internally and externally, your areas of responsibilities will include:

Managing key programmes within IGD’s Health and Sustainable Diets pillar, successfully delivering positive outcomes and meeting set targets and budgets through:

• Demonstrating specialist knowledge to deliver high quality and valuable results for stakeholders
• Receiving, interpreting, and imparting information and ideas, both written and spoken, to a wide range of stakeholders
• Responsibility for the development and delivery of relevant content (published reports, presentations of results, briefing notes, online content) in partnership with IGD colleagues, industry stakeholders, delivery partners and external consultants.
• Building long-term trusting relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, to inform our approach and drive engagement across the health pillar
• Presenting at external events and conferences to raise awareness of IGD’s Health and Sustainable Diets Programme
• Raising awareness of Health and Sustainable Diets across IGD, ensuring internal understanding and supporting colleagues with your expertise

There are no direct reports in this role.

What you bring to the role:

• Educated to degree level in food related science, nutrition, or behaviour change (ideally with RNutr or ANutr status)
• Experience with health and nutrition, regulatory affairs, scientific food related area
• A dynamic planner with strong project management skills, highly motivated with the ability to drive programmes forward under own initiative, well organised, capable of working under pressure and adopting a flexible approach to meet changing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, experience managing a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, a team player with the ability to collaborate with colleagues across the organisation.
• Willingness to be flexible and work across a broad range of health and nutrition issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in/with the UK food and consumer goods industry.

The rewards

We offer a range of benefits, including a market-leading pension, a bonus scheme, the ability to buy and sell annual leave plus a generous medical insurance package. At IGD, we have a great work-life balance, where you are empowered & trusted to manage your time.

The location

We are operating a hybrid approach to working with a mix of home and office-based working. We are based in a very accessible location within the M25, just 20 miles from central London.

More about our people

We’re looking for inspiring professionals; talented people who seek personal and career growth and are ambitious to develop their potential and unlock opportunities for society, for our customers and themselves.

We seek and attract the very best people and create an environment that supports and includes them. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their contribution. We therefore welcome applications from diverse candidates. This includes people with disabilities, so please discuss any adjustments that you may require throughout the selection and assessment process.

Our behaviours

We’re hungry for better

We say what needs to be said

We solve it together

We make it happen

More about IGD

At IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution), we serve as a unique, impartial force for good, driven by our charitable status and commitment to public benefit. Our purpose is clear: to unite and inspire everyone to deliver a thriving food system. We achieve this by acting as a trusted convener, uniting stakeholders from across the entire agrifood supply chain to address critical challenges.

We foster collaboration through a broad range of forums, bringing together businesses, policymakers, and thought leaders. By providing evidence-based insights, credible research, and strategic foresight, we help organisations make informed decisions that not only benefit their operations but also contribute to the collective good of society.

This is funded through our work with hundreds of clients from across the global food and consumer goods landscape.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Analyst, Writing/Editing, and Other

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations and Research Services

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