Senior Director, Regulatory and Nutrition Policy Strategy

Position Overview: The Senior Director, Regulatory and Nutrition Policy leads the development and implementation of regulatory and nutrition policies and strategies that align with the company’s goals. This role advocates for evidence-based regulatory and nutrition policies globally to create an enabling regulatory environment. It represents the company at external industry and scientific organizations and collaborates with internal and industry stakeholders to develop regulatory and nutrition policies that protect The Coca-Cola Company’s interests. Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Establish and guide the strategic priorities of a globally networked, cross-functional regulatory and nutrition policy team.
• Nutrition Policy Advocacy: Lead the development of the Company’s scientific advocacy strategies on priority nutrition topics, including ultra-processed foods and nutrition labeling policies.
• Regulatory Advocacy: Champions regulatory alignment at global and regional levels by developing and driving regulatory strategies and advocacy plans
• Strategic Guidance: Provide strategic guidance to leadership on regulatory and nutrition policy issues, including identification and strategies for emerging trends that may impact our business.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of regulatory and nutrition policies with business objectives.
• Risk and Opportunity Management: Provide leadership in identifying risks and opportunities in the regulatory, nutrition, and public health policy arena and ensure tracking of global issues and emerging trends that impact the reputation of our brands, trade, and future innovation opportunities.
• Industry Representation: Represent the Company at appropriate global industry organizations and international food standards bodies. Provide leadership to external stakeholders such as global food and beverage industry groups to influence outcomes and support our regulatory and nutrition policy strategies.
• Network Building: Establish sustainable networks and relationships in the global regulatory, nutrition, and public health policy arenas.

Qualifications:

• Educational Background: Advanced degree in nutrition, public health, regulatory affairs, or a related field.
• Experience: 12+ years of experience in regulatory affairs and nutrition policy.
• Regulatory Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of regulatory frameworks and nutrition science.
• Government and Industry Experience: Experience working with government agencies and industry groups.

Functional Skills:

• Advanced Nutrition: Ability to understand and interpret more advanced nutritional studies and communicate the information to a non-technical audience. Ability to use advanced nutritional information to influence department strategies. Ability to do nutritional problem solving based on understanding of related disciplines of physiology and food science for the department or the field.
• Advanced Regulatory Affairs: Ability to interact with government officials to represent the Company or beverage industry while explaining complex scientific data, reports, or issues. This includes the ability to anticipate issues or concerns of interest to public health officials and respond to those concerns in a non-adversarial manner.
• Advanced Regulatory Knowledge: Expert knowledge of the regulatory and political landscape affecting food and beverages globally. This includes the ability to manage complex regulatory issues affecting products, ingredients, packages, or labeling.
• Relationship Building: Ability to generate alliances internally and externally by continuously identifying and acting on those things that will create success for the Company and its customers, bottlers, suppliers, communities, and governments.
• Advocacy Position Development: Ensuring that our business is not unduly restricted by onerous policies or regulations and enabling business growth. This requires an understanding of the key issues and the relevant, credible science; the ability to assess risk; skills in strategic thinking and planning; the ability to build and articulate complex scientific arguments in a clear and compelling way; and the ability to partner with, collaborate with, and/or influence key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ingredient/Contaminant Regulatory Landscape and Advocacy: Understanding of the acceptable human exposure to potentially harmful substances in food. This includes knowledge of the nature, properties, adverse effects, and detection of materials such as food additives, ingredients, contaminants, packaging materials, and pesticide residues, and how they are tested and regulated.
• Nutrition Advocacy Position Development: Understanding of basic nutrition science, including complexities and controversies related to our portfolio and how foods and nutrients impact maintenance of health and/or obesity and other non-communicable diseases. Ability to build and articulate complex scientific arguments in a clear and compelling way; and the ability to partner with, collaborate with, and/or influence key internal and external stakeholders.
• Trade Association Leadership: Leading regulatory and scientific advocacy in Trade Associations. Knowledge of food industry trends and issues, and public policies affecting them. Strong network of industry stakeholders and the ability to leverage those networks to further our advocacy strategies.

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