Dan Thurston RNutr (AfN)

Experience

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  Sainsbury's

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

  General Assistant
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  Bristol Bears

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  Professional Rugby Player
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  Next

  Jul 2018 - May 2019

  Sales Assistant

  Temporary Sales assistant.

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  Graze.com

  Jun 2019 - Sept 2019

  New Product Development Intern
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  Vivo Life

  Apr 2020 - Apr 2024

  ➢ Developed and launched 10 new products and flavours to the portfolio within the first 18 months within the role. ➢ Ownership of all new and existing product development. Working with internal teams to ensure clear concept briefs are created and delivered using a stage and gate process.➢ Development and ownership of the Innovation cycle, leading cross-functional teams, ensuring that products are produced within set timescales, budgets and specifications.➢ Worked with internal stakeholders such as raw material sourcing, quality, ethical and regulatory teams to ensure ingredients and products meet quality and commercial considerations.➢ Analysing customer's feedback, competitors and trends through benchmarking to ensure existing products are improved or new products are developed accordingly.➢ Led long term product strategy developments reflecting market trends, consumer insights and brand development.➢ Supporting and leading factory trials ensuring that all new and existing products are produced efficiently and as expected. Show less Tasks included but not limited to:➢ Leading full artwork approval and maintenance of all nutritional information labels including UK, EU, USA and Canada.➢ Proactively identifying potential regulatory or compliance issues within the EU, UK, USA and Canada.➢ Working closely with the Product team to ensure that all products meet Nutrition Brand Standards.➢ Participating in the approval of all online and offline communications such as websites and marketing materials to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.➢ Answering Nutrition related customer queries. ➢ Leading all product certifications including: The Vegan Society, Organic and Labdoor.➢ Advising on all nutrition and health claims to ensure they are compliant and worded correctly according to regulatory requirements.➢ Leading product registration within all active and future territories.➢ Developing and implementing the Vganic Standard. Show less

  • Product Development Manager

    Jun 2021 - Apr 2024

  • Compliance Technician

    Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
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  Bakkavor

  Apr 2024 - Jun 2024

  Process Technologist

  •Lead trials in-line with the Bakkavor and Customer requirements.• Document all data from trials inc. shelf-life, organs etc, comprehensively and legibly for future review in order to establish process capabilities and supportdue diligence.• Working with NPD and Operations establish appropriate quality attributes for work in progress material, assembly and finished product taking intoaccount operational capabilities.• Carry out ongoing Process validation of relevant factory equipment to ensure site due diligencerequirements are met.• Co-ordinate Pre-Production and Launch preparation.• Contribute to post launch evaluation of process in conjunction with NPD to ensure process established at launch is still valid for full scale production and implement improvements as necessary Show less

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  Greencore

  Jun 2024 - now

  Product Developer