Project Manager (m/f) Operations, Haar

As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104.000 employees work on all five continents in the four business areas Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters and Advanced Medical Nutrition on one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible.”

Your Mission

• Responsibility for non-product and product related renovation and innovation projects (e.g. COGS productivity) in collaboration with Marketing, R&D, Quality and our plants
• Responsibility for project reviews and stage gate requests in project portfolio meeting
• Work with teams to find solutions for major issues and escalate main risks and issues on the project to project portfolio meeting
• Ensure “Goose methodology” compliance and availability of Goose gates deliverables for the project
• Represent Operations in all product related cross-functional projects team
• Deploy Danone improvement programs with Business Unit suppliers, reviewing progression, working in close cooperation with Resource Efficiencies
• Ensure delivery of ideas to more concrete plans while feeding the COVI portfolios using stage gate approaches

Your Profil

• Master degree or diploma in engineering, food technology, logistics or a related field
• Minimum six years of relevant professional experience, ideally in manufacturing, Industrial or R&D
• Sound knowledge of MS Office software, especially MS Excel
• Analytical skills and structured way of working
• Very good project management knowledge
• Decisive person with a strong team spirit who shows initiative
• Fluent in English and German (written and spoken)