What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nutrition Director position at Miami Marlins?
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Position Overview
The Nutrition Director will lead the Miami Marlins’ organization-wide nutrition strategy across the Major League club and all Minor League environments. This leader will build the systems, staff capabilities, and environments needed to turn evidence into consistent daily behaviors that support player availability, strength, recovery, adaptation, body composition, and long-term development.
What You Will Lead
Build the Nutrition Operating System
• Create an organizational nutrition philosophy and translate it into standards, playbooks, workflows, service levels, and decision rights.
• Establish organization-wide standards while allowing for individual, cultural, developmental, clinical, and environmental needs.
• Design a connected player journey from onboarding through the Major Leagues, including affiliate transitions, rehabilitation, travel, and offseason periods.
• Create feedback loops that support continuous learning and improvement.
Drive Behavior Change
• Identify and address barriers related to access, trust, motivation, routines, language, travel, social norms, and environment.
• Improve food availability, timing, default options, staff reinforcement, and player decision-making.
• Deliver practical, culturally responsive education and coaching connected to individual player goals.
Integrate Nutrition With Performance
• Partner with Strength and Conditioning, Medical, Coaching, Mental Skills, Sport Science, Performance Technology, Clubhouse, Travel, Player Development, and other key functions.
• Embed nutrition into training, competition, recovery, rehabilitation, travel, housing, food service, and offseason planning.
• Guide evidence-informed decisions involving fueling, hydration, recovery, supplementation, body composition, strength development, and individual performance goals.
• Ensure clinical care and nutrition services comply with credentialing, licensure, organizational policies, and professional scopes of practice.
Lead People and Standards
• Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing nutrition staff across Major League and Minor League locations through structured mentorship, continuing education, professional development, and clear pathways for growth.
• Establish clear expectations, individual goals, and consistent feedback practices that promote accountability, development, service, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Implement quality-assurance practices that support consistent care while preserving practitioner judgment and player trust.
• Build communication systems that allow relevant information to follow players responsibly across levels and departments.
Lead Strategy, Planning, and Resources
• Set and communicate annual department goals and priorities aligned with Baseball Operations and organizational objectives.
• Establish departmental and individual KPIs that measure access, adoption, quality, staff effectiveness, and player outcomes. Regularly evaluate performance to drive accountability, development, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain a long-term nutrition roadmap addressing staffing expansion, Minor League infrastructure, player development initiatives, and future resource needs.
• Manage departmental priorities, staffing, vendors, food-service partnerships, and the annual operational calendar.
• Partner with the Culinary Director to develop and manage nutrition and food-service budgets, ensuring resources and spending align with departmental standards and operational needs.
• Establish standards for products, supplements, procurement, travel, documentation, and risk management with appropriate internal partners.
• Communicate strategy, progress, tradeoffs, and resource needs to Baseball Operations leadership.
Qualifications
• Five or more years of leadership experience in nutrition, performance nutrition, sport science, or a related field, preferably within a professional, collegiate, Olympic, or other elite performance environment.
• Demonstrated success building systems, developing staff, and leading teams across multiple locations, competitive levels, or stakeholder groups.
• Experience establishing annual department plans, meaningful KPIs, performance expectations, and long-term strategic priorities.
• Experience partnering on budgets, resource planning, vendor management, or food-service operations.
• Strong knowledge of behavior-change principles and the ability to translate evidence into practical daily behaviors.
• Sound judgment in performance nutrition, evidence evaluation, risk management, confidentiality, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills across athletes, coaches, practitioners, operational staff, and senior leadership.
• Advanced degree in nutrition, dietetics, exercise science, sport science, behavioral science, or a related field preferred.
• RDN/RD, CSSD, applicable licensure, or other advanced nutrition or performance credentials strongly preferred. Candidates with exceptional organization-wide leadership and technical expertise may also be considered within applicable scope-of-practice requirements.
• Spanish proficiency and cross-cultural experience strongly preferred.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Position Overview
The Nutrition Director will lead the Miami Marlins’ organization-wide nutrition strategy across the Major League club and all Minor League environments. This leader will build the systems, staff capabilities, and environments needed to turn evidence into consistent daily behaviors that support player availability, strength, recovery, adaptation, body composition, and long-term development.
What You Will Lead
Build the Nutrition Operating System
• Create an organizational nutrition philosophy and translate it into standards, playbooks, workflows, service levels, and decision rights.
• Establish organization-wide standards while allowing for individual, cultural, developmental, clinical, and environmental needs.
• Design a connected player journey from onboarding through the Major Leagues, including affiliate transitions, rehabilitation, travel, and offseason periods.
• Create feedback loops that support continuous learning and improvement.
Drive Behavior Change
• Identify and address barriers related to access, trust, motivation, routines, language, travel, social norms, and environment.
• Improve food availability, timing, default options, staff reinforcement, and player decision-making.
• Deliver practical, culturally responsive education and coaching connected to individual player goals.
Integrate Nutrition With Performance
• Partner with Strength and Conditioning, Medical, Coaching, Mental Skills, Sport Science, Performance Technology, Clubhouse, Travel, Player Development, and other key functions.
• Embed nutrition into training, competition, recovery, rehabilitation, travel, housing, food service, and offseason planning.
• Guide evidence-informed decisions involving fueling, hydration, recovery, supplementation, body composition, strength development, and individual performance goals.
• Ensure clinical care and nutrition services comply with credentialing, licensure, organizational policies, and professional scopes of practice.
Lead People and Standards
• Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing nutrition staff across Major League and Minor League locations through structured mentorship, continuing education, professional development, and clear pathways for growth.
• Establish clear expectations, individual goals, and consistent feedback practices that promote accountability, development, service, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Implement quality-assurance practices that support consistent care while preserving practitioner judgment and player trust.
• Build communication systems that allow relevant information to follow players responsibly across levels and departments.
Lead Strategy, Planning, and Resources
• Set and communicate annual department goals and priorities aligned with Baseball Operations and organizational objectives.
• Establish departmental and individual KPIs that measure access, adoption, quality, staff effectiveness, and player outcomes. Regularly evaluate performance to drive accountability, development, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain a long-term nutrition roadmap addressing staffing expansion, Minor League infrastructure, player development initiatives, and future resource needs.
• Manage departmental priorities, staffing, vendors, food-service partnerships, and the annual operational calendar.
• Partner with the Culinary Director to develop and manage nutrition and food-service budgets, ensuring resources and spending align with departmental standards and operational needs.
• Establish standards for products, supplements, procurement, travel, documentation, and risk management with appropriate internal partners.
• Communicate strategy, progress, tradeoffs, and resource needs to Baseball Operations leadership.
Qualifications
• Five or more years of leadership experience in nutrition, performance nutrition, sport science, or a related field, preferably within a professional, collegiate, Olympic, or other elite performance environment.
• Demonstrated success building systems, developing staff, and leading teams across multiple locations, competitive levels, or stakeholder groups.
• Experience establishing annual department plans, meaningful KPIs, performance expectations, and long-term strategic priorities.
• Experience partnering on budgets, resource planning, vendor management, or food-service operations.
• Strong knowledge of behavior-change principles and the ability to translate evidence into practical daily behaviors.
• Sound judgment in performance nutrition, evidence evaluation, risk management, confidentiality, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills across athletes, coaches, practitioners, operational staff, and senior leadership.
• Advanced degree in nutrition, dietetics, exercise science, sport science, behavioral science, or a related field preferred.
• RDN/RD, CSSD, applicable licensure, or other advanced nutrition or performance credentials strongly preferred. Candidates with exceptional organization-wide leadership and technical expertise may also be considered within applicable scope-of-practice requirements.
• Spanish proficiency and cross-cultural experience strongly preferred.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.