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Italy
- Temporary Full-Time
- 12 months
- Posted: 10 Jun 2026
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About the job
CO-PACKING PLANNER
For our Supply Chain division in Milan we are looking for a CO-PACKING PLANNER
Your Role:
- This role acts as a key operational link between the Italian Business Unit and external co-packers. The Copacking Planner reports to the Market supply Coordinator and is part of a young and dynamic team.
In this role you will be responsible for the execution and coordination of copacking activities cross-category (dairy, plant based and baby nutrition products), ensuring product availability while optimizing costs, reducing waste, and maintaining high service levels.
You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders (Demand Planning, Logistics, Customer Service, Quality, Marketing, Sales) and external partners (co-packers) to ensure smooth operations and efficient execution of copacking plans.
Main responsibilities and tasks:
- Manage copacking operations with external partners to ensure smooth execution and product availability
- Act as the key contact for copacked products, coordinating with internal teams and suppliers
- Align volumes, priorities, and capacity to support business needs
- Monitor performance and identify opportunities to improve service, efficiency, and costs
- Support short-term planning and quickly adapt to changes or unexpected situations
- Contribute to waste reduction and ensure optimal use of materials
- Resolve operational issues and support critical situations when needed
- Drive action plans and ensure effective follow-up with all stakeholders
About you
To be successful in this role, we believe you need to have:
- Master’s degree in Economics or Engineering or similar
- Previous experience in a supply chain role is a plus
- Strong problem solving and entrepreneurial thinking – proactivity is a must;
- Analytical skills;
- Relational skills and flexibility;
- Excel knowledge; Power BI and SAP/APO are a plus.
- Fluent English & Italian
About Danone
About us
As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104000 employees work on all five continents in the three Danone business areas Essential Dairy & Plant-Based, Specialized Nutrition and Water on one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible”.
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. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food and healthy food needs a healthy planet: this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.
Do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you.
Working here you’ll need to enjoy a fast-pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.
Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet One Health BY YOU.
We offer
We believe in a “Phygital” workplace.
Phisycal because our offices are centrally located and easily reached by public transportation. Free water, yogurt and fruits are of course benefits for our employees.
Digital as we work for objectives, without time or space constraints, in a responsible, autonomous and flexible way that helps to reconcile life and work times, improving productivity and focusing on results.
We offer you a culture, where you’ll be welcomed to bring in ideas and take initiative. You’ll learn from colleagues highly committed and passionate about what they do. We believe in learning something new each day as it means you keep growing every day!
We believe everyone has talent, something which comes natural to you. Your uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energizes you.
In Italy we are Certified Great Place to Work and B Corp.
Inclusive Diversity
Danone is committed to create and live an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities & as individuals. Valuing diversity is recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society.
We commit to foster an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives and sexual orientation.
We believe that our differences will make the difference.
In Italy from march 2023 we are Certified for Gender Equality (UNI PDR 125/22).
We believe in recognizing and rewarding talent with a competitive and comprehensive package:
- Annual Base Salary – aligned with the minimum standards of the National Collective Labour Agreement (Food Industry – Level 2): €36,918.56
- Profit Sharing (premio per obiettivi)
- Welfare Package – a wide range of benefits and services designed to support employees’ wellbeing and work-life balance
What’s next?
Willing to start your meaningful journey? Hit the apply bottom!
Join us! Follow @idanoners_italia on Instagram! See life at Danone from the front row
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