Nutrition Data Management Specialist

MealSuite, an Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Company, is a privately owned SaaS organization with 120 team members across in Cambridge, ON, Canada, Dallas, TX, USA, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through our foodservice technology system, we help operators across healthcare and aging services save time, reduce food waste and meet regulatory requirements, so they can improve the quality of patient and resident care.
A career with MealSuite offers the innovation and agility of a startup matched with the stability of an established company in a growing industry.
We’re looking for our next attentive Nutrition Data Management Specialist, to join our Nutrition Services Team. Reporting to the Director, Nutrition Services, you’ll be our nutrition data guru who manages the maintenance and integrity of the food, vendor product and nutrient data within the MealSuite system. You will also contribute to our vendor relations initiatives.
A day in the life as Nutrition Data Management Specialist:

• Food distributors related to the data integrity of the distributor’s vendor products within the MealSuite system
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to resolve customer issues related to product costing and nutrient profiles
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships with food distributors and food manufacturers serving as the subject matter expert in food items, vendor products, and nutrient sources across all vendors and partners within the MealSuite system
• Propose alternative or improved processes aimed at maintaining an intuitive system to meet the operational needs of MealSuite customers
• Act as the nutrition data guru by keeping our system up to date with all nutrition details about food items that align with both MealSuite system standards, best practices and industry requirements
• Act as the liaison between the Nutrition Services team and the Product team regarding the functionality and management of vendor products and nutrient sources
• Act as the primary contact between MealSuite and:
• Enhance the processes to identify and prevent manual and automated system errors
• GDSN partners related to nutrient source data integrity within the MealSuite system
• Keep up to date of industry standards and regulations that impact system data standards and integrity as it relates to vendor products and nutrient sources and propose solutions to ensure proper change management and continued best practices within the MealSuite system
• Evaluate current food data to inform decisions on new product additions and appropriateness within the MealSuite system
• Keep up to date of supply chain issues and trends to potential impacts of customer operations and propose proactive solutions or enhancements to maintain optimal customer operations and best practices within the MealSuite system
• Manage the integrity of our system by intently monitoring the data
• Food manufacturers related to the manufacturer’s nutrient data within the MealSuite system

If the below describe your knowledge, experience and character, then this role could be for you:

• I gained my knowledge through becoming a Registered Dietitian, or through direct and extensive experience with nutrient analysis and evaluation in the healthcare food industry. Bonus points because I have a combination of both!
• I have knowledge of:
• I love to be directly involved in projects and initiatives that offer continued learning and endless opportunity to express my ideas and build my leadership skills
• Broadline food service distributors and vendor product attributes
• I’m exceptional at diving into the nitty gritty details of data and get pretty excited when I know that the data is up to date, accurate and tracked effectively and efficiently
• I have 1 + years experience in database and food service management systems
• I’m willing to occasionally travel and have a valid passport and no travel restrictions that limit my ability to cross the border between Canada and the USA
• Food commodities and supplies related to food service operations
• I have experience with Microsoft office applications with proficiency in Excel and GDSN data pool platforms
• I’m extra passionate about food and food product information. Some may say I’m a bit obsessed with it.
• Food service purchasing processes and procedures
• I thrive in an agile environment that is constantly changing and encourages team members to collectively collaborate and communicate

We know imposter syndrome can be REAL when applying for a new role, but please don't let the confidence gap prevent you from taking a leap and applying for your dream job. Your future self will thank you!
Why you’ll love working at MealSuite:

• We love collaboration. We value connecting with each other and recognize the benefit that physically working next to one another can offer towards collaboration, mentoring and learning. This role is based out of Dallas, Texas office and will require you to work in our awesome office 1 day a week.For the remaining days, you can choose to work from home or in-office. More than an hour away from the office location? Apply anyway, and we can talk through your options!
• We are passionate people that care about others. The heart of what we do comes down to our mission to: Deliver smiles and satisfaction to the continuum of care through an all-in-one foodservice management technology. Learn more about what we do here
• We take care of our employees too! One of our great benefits is that we offer unlimited paid time off. Yeah, you read that right! We trust our employees to build their own version of balance so they can feel rejuvenated to bring their best every day.
• We focus on creating a progressive culture that values teamwork, listens to all voices and entrusts team members with tasks that make a significant impact within our industry. Learn more about our values at MealSuite.com/Careersandsee what our teammates have to say about working for MealSuite.

Have we got your attention? Great! Here’s what’s next:
Apply today with your resume and answers to our application questions.
We’ll start reviewing candidates about two weeks after this position was posted, and will reach out to you if we’d like to get to know you a bit better. We often get hundreds of applications for our roles (we feel very honoured that so many people are interested!) and try our best to get back to each person. If there’s a delay in our response, please don’t think we’ve forgotten about you. We may be taking our time to thoroughly review each candidate before deciding who to talk with! We will let you know either way if we decide to move forward with your application.
We want to ensure that every qualified individual has an equal opportunity to work with us. If you require accommodation to our application process, please contact [email protected].