Director, Labeling and Nutrition Compliance

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CookUnity

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

🛍️ eCommerce

Food & Beverage • Manufacturing • eCommerce

CookUnity is a meal delivery service offering a wide selection of chef-crafted, gourmet dishes delivered directly to customers' doorsteps. The company collaborates with award-winning chefs to create diverse, restaurant-quality meals that cater to various dietary preferences and lifestyles, such as keto, vegan, paleo, and more. CookUnity focuses on providing convenience and flexibility with options ranging from 4 to 16 meals per week, which can be customized or automatically selected based on the customer's preferences. The meals are delivered fresh, not frozen, ensuring high quality and taste. The company also emphasizes sustainability with its packaging solutions and seeks to reduce waste. CookUnity presents a convenient way to enjoy high-quality meals prepared by top chefs without the hassle of cooking.

📋 Description

• Lead CookUnity’s labeling and nutrition compliance program and establish standards consistent with applicable NLEA requirements. • Own the create, review, approve, and distribute (CRAD) labeling process, governance, KPI dashboard, accountability, review requirements, approval records, version controls, release criteria, escalation paths, and corrective actions. • Define regulatory and technical requirements for ingredient master data and lead specification approval and stakeholder sign-off. • Review and approve ingredient data eligibility for labeling and claims. • Own third-party laboratory validation, including lab qualification, risk-based sampling, testing methods, and comparison against approved recipes, portions, declared nutrition, and claim criteria. • Investigate laboratory discrepancies and drive verified corrections. • Approve product, nutrition, standards, ingredient, and dietary claims before publication, requiring substantiation and change control. • Coordinate Food Science Lab approval, Legal concurrence, and qualified clinical approval for medically tailored meal criteria. • Set risk-based review priorities for legacy records and partner with Supply Chain on data remediation and maintenance. • Manage compliance impacts of supplier, ingredient, recipe, process, portion, packaging, and system changes. • Establish technical acceptance criteria for labeling and data systems and partner with Engineering on source-to-label and website mappings and automated checks. • Require production first-article checks and ongoing label-to-meal verification. • Verify consistency between approved label master data and customer-facing channels, including the CookUnity website. • Define website reconciliation criteria and verify publication and correction evidence. • Hold or reject nonconforming label and content releases and escalate unresolved safety or compliance issues to the VP of FSQA. • Maintain inspection-ready records and train cross-functional teams. • Maintain the CRAD KPI dashboard and drive traceable inputs, supported claims, documented review, approved market-specific labels, consistent website content, and verified production execution.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep, practical experience in food-labeling regulations, nutrition, and standards compliance, including hands-on technical review of packaged food labels, ingredient and allergen declarations, nutrition calculations, and claim substantiation. • Strong working knowledge of applicable U.S. FDA food-labeling requirements and ability to determine when USDA FSIS or other market requirements apply, with qualified specialist support as needed. • Experience connecting supplier specifications, ingredient databases, formulations, recipe systems, nutrition analysis, artwork, and production execution through controlled workflows. • Sound technical judgment regarding ingredient variability, cooking yields, portioning, laboratory results, and limitations of calculated nutrition. • Ability to translate regulatory and technical requirements into clear acceptance criteria and practical operating controls. • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional programs, resolving ownership gaps, and implementing change without relying solely on direct reporting authority. • Clear written communication, careful documentation, and confidence holding a release when supporting evidence is incomplete. • A degree in food science, nutrition, regulatory science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. • Experience in multi-site prepared meal operations. • Experience with recipe-management systems and supplier-data platforms. • Familiarity with Canadian food-labeling requirements. • Registered Dietitian credentials are preferred; clinical standards and medically tailored meal criteria require appropriately qualified expertise.