Nutrition Specialist

**Company Description**:
The Red Bull Athlete Performance Center (APC) is an athlete accelerator where we help Red Bull athletes to become truly outstanding performers. To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Nutrition Specialist.

In this position you will work as a member of the nutrition team to support athletes in the most effective way possible through implementation of evidence-based nutrition strategies that are tailored to the requirements of each athletes.

**NUTRITION AND DIETETICS**

Consulting with Red Bull athletes, providing nutritional support of the athletes and the athletes' environment.

Individual support and development of the athletes, conduction of practical workshops, development of information material and resources relevant to nutrition, documentation and data management.

Raising awareness of the importance of performance-oriented nutrition and putting scientifically based nutritional strategies into practice.

Good record keeping

Delivering optimal meals to athletes at the APC

Delivering cooking classes, demos or workshops

Specialise and develop at a world class level in a specific area of nutrition

**EDUCATION**

Contribute to the development of education materials for athletes

Help to develop ways to interact with athletes who are traveling or who are based at distant locations

**TEAM WORK**

Be an effective team member of the interdisciplinary team at the APC

Be an effective team member of the global nutrition team

Alignment and coordination with the nutritionists of Red Bull Soccer

**Qualifications**:
Great knowledge of the scientific literature in the field of performance nutrition

Great knowledge of exercise phsyiology and biochemistry

Good knowledge of a wide range of sports

Expertise in using nutritional supplements in sport with practical knowledge and understanding of the use of nutritional supplements and ergogenic substances.

Substantial experience of nutritional support to athletes in high-performance sports and their environment.

Expertise in the implementation of scientific and evidence-based (sports-) nutrition and dietetic strategies.

Extensive experience in analyzing sport-specific requirements and working with a kitchen team to promote, further develop and implement food options tailored to the need of athletes

Experience of implementing effective body composition management strategies in a competitive athlete environment

Experience working with different athletes and different athlete groups with varying education backgrounds and attitudes

Experience providing nutrition support at major competitions and tournememts

Experience with disoredered eating, allergies, gastro-intestinal problems and other clinical issues

Great critical reading and critical thinking skills

Very good communication skills to guide athletes in behavior change and training of adequate nutritional strategies.

Understanding of the interaction and interplay between the different disciplines of sport science, sports medicine and sports nutrition as well as experience in working with a multidisciplinary "high-performance" team.

Being able to construct carefully thought out scientific arguments to support or refute certain practices

Being able to work with nutrition software and doing nutrition analyses

Completed university studies with Bachelor's degree in dietetics or nutritional sciences and/or completion of extensive, advanced training in the field of sports nutrition (e.g. Master of Science or Phd, International Olympic Committee Diploma for Sport Nutrition).

Fluency in English, German is desired and other languages (French or Spanish) are a plus.

Good organisational and time management skills

Interpreting body composition and blood profiling assessments

Creative skills to come up with new ways to communicate messages to athletes

**Additional Information**:
Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.