WE'RE HIRING: PERFORMANCE NUTRITIONIST

Part-time | Hybrid, home and travel-based role | Self-employed

Your role

As our Performance Nutritionist, you will play a key role in supporting the health and performance of riders across the CANYON//SRAM WorldTeam.

Working closely with our Sports, Performance and Medical teams, you will lead our performance nutrition support, developing individual strategies for training, racing and recovery. You will also take ownership of the team’s day-to-day use of HEXIS, ensuring it is effectively integrated into how we support our riders.

With a strong understanding of female athlete health, you will translate current scientific knowledge into practical nutrition strategies that help our riders perform, recover and stay healthy throughout the season.

This is a part-time freelance role combining regular remote support with attendance at selected training camps and races. The scope, time commitment and travel days will be agreed together based on the season calendar, offering flexibility to work alongside other professional commitments.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading the use of HEXIS across the WorldTeam, creating and managing individual fuelling plans for training and racing.
• Providing individual nutrition support to riders, covering fuelling, hydration, supplementation, recovery and body composition.
• Supporting female athlete health, with particular attention to energy availability, menstrual health and the prevention of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs).
• Working closely with coaches, medical staff and chefs to align nutrition strategies with training, racing, recovery and individual rider needs.
• Monitoring relevant nutrition and health data, maintaining clear records and reporting on key areas of rider nutrition and performance.
• Coordinating nutrition support at selected training camps and races.
• Supporting the integration of HEXIS into team operations, working with chefs and other staff to translate individual nutrition plans into practical daily and race nutrition.
• Contributing to rider and staff education and helping develop the team’s nutrition approach in line with the latest scientific evidence.
• Ensuring that nutrition and supplementation recommendations follow relevant professional guidelines, anti-doping regulations and team policies.

Your profile

What matters most to us is that you combine strong sports nutrition expertise with practical experience supporting elite female athletes and the ability to translate scientific knowledge into effective, individualised strategies.

Ideally, you bring:

• A recognised qualification in nutrition, dietetics or sports nutrition.
• Significant experience supporting female athletes at elite level, ideally in endurance sports or professional cycling.
• Extensive hands-on experience using HEXIS with athletes, including developing individual fuelling plans.
• A strong understanding of female athlete health, including energy availability, menstrual health and REDs.
• Experience developing nutrition strategies for training, racing and recovery.
• A good understanding of hydration, supplementation and the nutritional demands of endurance performance.
• Experience working collaboratively with coaches, medical professionals and other performance staff.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with riders and staff.
• A proactive, reliable and evidence-based approach to your work.
• Knowledge of anti-doping regulations and supplement certification.
• Professional fluency in English; additional languages are an advantage.
• Flexibility to travel internationally and attend selected training camps and races, based on mutual agreement.

Why us?

We are an international team of riders and staff united by a passion for cycling, performance and pushing women’s sport forward. At CANYON//SRAM, your work will directly contribute to how our riders prepare, perform and develop throughout the season.

With us, you’ll find:

• An international and ambitious working environment at the heart of professional cycling.
• The opportunity to take ownership of performance nutrition across an elite women’s WorldTeam.
• Close collaboration with riders, coaches, medical staff and performance specialists.
• The opportunity to work with HEXIS and contribute to the development of its application in professional women’s cycling.
• A flexible freelance structure combining remote work with selected international races and training camps, agreed together.
• The chance to actively contribute to the future of women’s cycling.

This is a freelance, part-time position, with an expected commitment of approximately two days per week. The exact scope, working days and travel commitments will be agreed together based on the season calendar.

Ready to join the team? We look forward to hearing from you.

Apply here.