Danone
Job title:
VIE R&I Manager Plant Based – Brussel – 1 year – W/M
Company:
Danone
Job description
You love purposeful & emotional brands winning on the market – We love winning & creative spirit! Become part of Danone Benelux R&I team (based in Brussels) and participate to the growth of beautiful brands like Alpro, Oikos, Danette, Actimel, Hipro, Alpro, Evian.We are looking for our new VIE BNL R&I Manager Plant Based, you will report to the BNL Senior Manager Plant Based & First Diet. This role is part of the R&I Benelux team. The team is focusing on Danone FMCG (Dairy, Plant Based, Waters & First Diet) products design including the understanding of the local consumers’ needs and competitive landscape. This role, despite having full focus on the Benelux CBUs, is fully integrated within the European R&I team, which includes key product and packaging design and development centers in Europe. This role has a critical accountability to drive product superiority, health and sustainability, product innovation and cost competitiveness in reformulation.You will work in a cross-functional environment to deliver superior, accretive and sustainable product innovations and renovations to the market. You will be the local Research & Innovation (R&I) voice within the project teams. You will work with a high variety of stakeholders ranging from local R&I UX, Nutrition & Health, Marketing, General Secretary, Quality, Operations, Sales to European R&I, Marketing teams.Your missions are:
- Master the products portfolio (health, composition, taste, cost, superiority roadmap etc..) , the competitive landscape and the consumers needs of your brands.
- Ensure the superiority and the sustainability of the products of your brands.
- Lead, as R&I project member, the Exploration & Define phases of the innovation, renovation and reformulation projects and be accountable for the product brief definition and validation.
- Be a key projects team member from Develop phase until post launch when require R&I local inputs and be accountable that the delivery answer the brief.
- Be accountable for the tastings session (drive the sessions & resulting actions) and labelling sheets of the products and projects of your brands.
- Ensure generation of ideas & co-define the 2 years calendar of the innovations, renovations and reformulations of your brands.
- Sparing partner with R&I EU (IDDC), MKT, Sales, Quality Ops for daily projects, activities, crisis focused on your brands.
You are :
- BAC +5 in engineering/science/food,
- A proactive person with a spirit of initiative and the ability to quickly understand objectives and manage the achievement of results independently.
- You have good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Your passion for R&I enables you to contribute to improving the consumer experience and building strong brands through innovation.
- You have 1 to 2 years’ experience in the food and beverage (FMCG) sector, ideally with experience in the plant-based products category.
Danone’s mission is bringing health through food to as many people as possible and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have to impact the world through their daily choices.Healthy food needs a healthy planet, and this is what our new signature embodies. Want to discover more about Danone in the Benelux? Check it out .Our core values are Humanism, Openness,Proximity and Enthusiasm embody the way we aspire to behave in everything we do. If you are an energetic person who believes in these principles, then Danone is the right company for you!Join our dynamic team and help us make our vision a reality by playing a key role in the performance of Danone and all its brands.A competitive salary package makes it all even more interesting.But more importantly – we offer a wide range of opportunities to launch your career within Operations and beyond!#LI-FR
Expected salary
Location
Bruxelles
Job date
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:12:31 GMT
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