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About the Role
The Manager, Agriculture, Allergens & Nutrition leads the development and delivery of integrated Nutrition and Agriculture strategies and provides leadership for the allergen agenda. This role translates long-term ambitions into practical plans, protecting brand trust while helping the business make balanced choices across agricultural resilience, environmental impact, menu, customer experience, food safety, allergens, nutrition, quality, affordability, and value. It acts as the business’s senior Nutrition, Allergens and Agriculture thought partner and leads the market response to relevant regulatory and policy developments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of the McDonald’s UK & Ireland Nutrition, Allergens and Agriculture strategy, ensuring it supports business priorities, brand trust and long-term growth.
- Act as the principal business partner to Impact, Menu, Marketing, Business Insights, Operations and Supply Chain, helping balance nutrition, allergen safety, agricultural resilience, environmental outcomes, affordability and great taste and quality within menu and sourcing decisions.
- Provide strategic leadership on emerging nutrition, agriculture, allergen and supply-chain issues, identifying risks, opportunities and future regulatory requirements and translating them into practical business and brand plans.
- Lead McDonald’s UK&I approach to responsible agriculture and farm-level resilience, working with suppliers, farmers and industry partners to strengthen long-term supply security, farm viability, animal health and welfare, and environmental outcomes, including CO2e reduction.
- Serve as the business’s senior Nutrition and Allergens lead, thought partner and spokesperson, providing credible guidance across the organisation and representing McDonald’s with regulators, government, industry and other external stakeholders.
- Ensure customer-facing nutrition, ingredient and allergen information is accurate, compliant, accessible and customer-focused, including the interpretation and implementation of relevant legislation and policy.
- Build effective relationships and governance across the McDonald’s System, ensuring the function is engaged early in decisions and that senior leaders, franchisees, suppliers and partners are aligned behind agreed priorities and outcomes.
- Lead and develop the Agriculture, Allergens & Nutrition team and represent UK&I within Global Nutrition, Agriculture and Sustainability networks, strengthening capability, collaboration and the sharing of best practice.
Requirements
- Proven senior leadership experience in nutrition, agriculture, sustainability, food science, menu development or a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to set strategy and lead multidisciplinary teams through ambiguity, change and competing priorities.
- A strong integrator and enterprise leader who can connect technical, commercial, customer and operational perspectives and turn complexity into clear decisions and action.
- A strong track record of cross-functional business partnership and Executive influence across functions such as Menu, Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain.
- Strong experience of risk management, governance and regulatory engagement, with the judgement to recognise when deeper specialist expertise is required.
- Commercial and customer judgement with the ability to balance resilience, environmental impact, nutrition, allergen safety, taste and quality, restaurant experience, affordability and speed to market.
- Experience using data and evidence to support decisions and continuous improvement while making clear recommendations where perfect information does not exist.
- Credibility with external stakeholders and experience representing an organisation with government, regulators, industry bodies, NGOs, academics or the media.
- Strong people leadership with experience developing capability and delivering results through others.
Skills
- Nutrition
- Agriculture
- Sustainability
- Food Science
- Menu Development
- Risk Management
- Governance
- Regulatory Engagement
- Data Analysis
- Team Leadership
Location
- UK
- Ireland
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership experience
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent experience in Nutrition, Agriculture, Sustainability, Food Science or a related discipline.
About the Company
- McDonalds has run its business in the UK since 1974 and currently operates over 1500 restaurants across the UK and Ireland, serving almost four million customers each day.
- McDonalds is one of the UKs largest private sector employers, employing over 170,000 people.
- Our Global vision is to build a better McDonalds and in the UK and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.
- McDonalds is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do.
- Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions.
- Serve: We put our customers and our people first
- Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone
- Integrity: We do the right thing
- Community: We are good neighbours
- Family: We get better together
- At McDonalds we are People from all Walks of Life...
- People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonalds experience.
- We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers.
- We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of.
- The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.
- We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind.
- We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonalds or elsewhere.
Equal Opportunity
- We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind.