Nuritas is not building a conventional ingredients company. We are pioneering a new category in human health through AI-discovered bioactive peptides, unlocking nature’s hidden potential to create clinically validated ingredients that can transform how people live, age, recover, and perform.

Our proprietary discovery platform, Magnifier, sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational biology, and nutritional science, enabling us to identify and develop peptides with speed, precision, and commercial relevance. With a growing portfolio of scientifically differentiated ingredients and an expanding pipeline of innovation, Nuritas is scaling its presence and building the authority, partnerships, and market traction to define the future of this space.

This fixed-term maternity cover contract offers the opportunity to take ownership of a high-impact clinical portfolio at the forefront of AI-enabled biotechnology. While fixed-term in nature, the successful candidate will play a critical role in advancing our clinical evidence strategy during an exciting phase of company growth.

The Role

This is a unique, hands-on role sitting at the intersection of clinical research, nutrition science, R&D, AI enabled discovery and commercial scientific support.

The successful candidate will support and manage the clinical research programme, ensuring continuity across ongoing and planned studies, while also acting as a key scientific voice for the business. The role requires someone who can move comfortably between strategic evidence planning, clinical trial execution, data interpretation, scientific communication, and the operational detail required to keep a lean and ambitious function moving.

The role requires someone who can operate at pace across multiple parallel workstreams. The successful candidate will be able to move quickly between early-stage discovery discussions, clinical trial design CRO and supplier management, clinical material reediness, data analysis, scientific interpretation, manuscript development, claims support and customer-facing scientific communication.

You will work closely with the CSO, R&D, AI/Data, Commercial, Marketing, Regulatory, Operations and external partners to ensure clinical and nutrition science is translated into credible, clear and commercially relevant outputs.

What You’ll Do

Clinical Research, Trial Design & Evidence Generation

• Design and support in-house case studies, early-stage consumer testing and insight-generation activities for new or developing ingredients.
• Maintain oversight of the current and upcoming clinical research pipeline, helping to prioritise studies in line with strategic value, available resources and business need.
• Translate clinical outputs into clear, evidence-based scientific narratives for internal and external use.
• Ensure clinical studies are designed and delivered in line with scientific, regulatory, commercial and business objectives.

Clinical Trial Management & Governance

• Manage day-to-day clinical trial operations, processes, timelines, deliverables, documentation and issue resolution.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Contract Research Organisations, clinical partners and relevant external providers.
• Prepare, maintain and review clinical documentation to ensure appropriate quality, regulatory compliance and GCP alignment.

Nutrition Science, R&D & Ingredient Development

• Provide clinical scientific input into ingredient development, evidence generation and claims-support activities.
• Help connect clinical evidence, nutrition science and product development in a way that supports both scientific credibility and commercial relevance.
• Participate actively in R&D team activities, including scientific discussions, lab meetings, ingredient pipeline reviews and formulation discussions.

Scientific Communication & Commercial Support

• Support the Commercial and Marketing team with technical expertise, customer-facing scientific materials and scientific input for partner discussions tailoring the level of detail and framing for peer review, commercial discussions, customer engagement, marketing communication, and leadership decision-making.
• Translate complex clinical and nutrition science into clear, credible and commercially useful communication.

Operational Excellence & Team Support

• Maintain clinical project plans and relevant project management tools such as Monday.com, Asana or equivalent systems.
• Support clinical process improvement, documentation standards and operational consistency across the clinical programme.
• Line manage and mentor a Clinical Research Assistant, providing direction, oversight and support to ensure their work is high quality and aligned to company priorities.

What Success Looks Like

• Clinical trial activity continues smoothly during the maternity cover period, with clear ownership, governance and momentum.
• Clinical studies are well designed, well managed and aligned to business priorities.
• CROs, suppliers and external partners are managed effectively, with timelines, budgets and deliverables under control.
• Clinical data is translated into clear, credible scientific narratives that support R&D, commercial and marketing objectives.

The Person

• We are looking for someone who is scientifically rigorous, commercially aware and highly practical.
• You will be someone who enjoys variety, takes ownership and can bring structure to complexity. You will be confident engaging with senior stakeholders, external partners and cross-functional teams, while also being willing to get into the operational detail required to deliver high-quality clinical work.
• You will bring curiosity, judgement and pace, with the ability to balance scientific depth with business relevance.

What You’ll Bring

• PhD in Nutrition, Biology, Life Sciences or a related scientific discipline.
• Minimum 5 years’ relevant post-PhD experience in industry, clinical research, nutrition science or an applied research environment.
• Demonstrable end-to-end clinical trial experience, including protocol development, ethics submissions, study documentation, data analysis and clinical study report writing.
• Strong understanding of clinical trial governance, GCP principles and appropriate research documentation standards.
• Experience working with CROs, external research partners or clinical service providers.

The following, while not essential, are highly desirable

• Experience in nutraceuticals, functional foods, dietary supplements, health ingredients or adjacent nutrition/consumer health sectors.
• Experience supporting commercial, sales or customer-facing teams in a scientific capacity.
• Experience supporting claims substantiation, evidence dossiers, white papers or scientific marketing materials.

Benefits

• Modern City Centre Location
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Insurance
• Pension Scheme