At Danone, we believe that every time we eat or drink, we vote for the world we want. As a leading food and beverage company, we make healthy, sustainably produced foods and beverages that nourish people's lives. As the largest Certified B Corporation in the world, we are committed to redefining business success to ensure that through our brands we create real benefits for people, our communities, and the planet.

We are looking for a R&I Process Senior Manager who will validate new recipes at pilot scale and propose a robust upscaling solution, guarantee successful implementation at industrial level and optimize manufacturing processes, tackling products superiority and operational performance.

Your main responsibilities will focus on:

• Develop comprehensive training plans for new users in R&I and other relevant areas.
• Collaborate with R&I and regulatory teams to identify and propose optimal definitions for products and ingredients.
• Work with UX and IDDC to establish detailed validation plans for every new recipe.
• Validate pilot trial designs, ensure successful execution, and develop robust alternatives that can be easily scaled up for industrial production.
• Drive team growth by integrating and leveraging all knowledge gained during validation and implementation phases to continuously optimize processes and enhance efficiency in handling new cases.
• Establish connections and ensure alignment within the EU R&I community, including IDDC, UX, and AT.
• Ensure freedom to operate for the proposed new solutions.
• Safeguard new developments through patents and trade secrets protection.

To be successful in this role we believe that is it positive to have:

• Education: Food technology background, specially at milk cracking.
• Experience: More than 5 years at food industry and leading high expertise teams.
• Languages: Fluent English and Spanish. 
• Skills: Collaboration, communication, and cross functional leadership skills.
• Availability to travel between 40% to 50% of the time.

Working at Danone gives you the chance to impact more than 12 million consumers in, where we lead the ranking of the most chosen brands in the country.
 
In addition, Danone is the largest BCorp company and that drives us every day to increase our efforts in sustainability, our impact on society and our workers.
 
And what’s next?
 
If you have come this far you will have already convinced yourself... Apply!!
 
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