Where do you want to work?
MY JOURNEY SO FAR.
- Emerging Food Safety Risk Manager
- Emerging Food Safety Risks & Specifications Director
- Essential Dairy & Plant-based Food Safety Director
- Specialised Nutrition Food Safety Director
THE WORK THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS
When people hear "food safety," they picture compliance. Checklists. Risk mitigation. And yes, that's part of it. But that framing misses what the work actually is.
At Danone, food safety isn't the department that says no. It's the science that determines what's possible. Our products reach infants, patients, people at every vulnerable stage of life. Getting the formulation right isn't a quality target — it's the whole point.
A PLACE THAT TAKES PEOPLE SERIOUSLY
Read their stories on their journey...
This is a company that employs people across more than 60 countries, and somehow still manages to feel like a place where individuals are actually seen.
The ambition here is real. When we say we want to bring health through food to as many people as possible, that sentence has weight. It shapes decisions. Including mine.
SCIENCE WITH A HUNDRED YEARS OF MOMENTUM BEHIND IT
My path here hasn't followed a straight line. I started in emerging food safety risk management, moved into specifications, then essential dairy and plant-based, and now specialised nutrition. Each move was a different challenge — different science, different stakeholders, different consequences if you get it wrong.
I didn't ask for a clear roadmap. I asked for the next hard problem. Danone kept delivering.
GROWING INTO THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE CAPABLE OF
The thing that surprised me most wasn't the scale of the work. It was what happened around it.
My managers have been consistently encouraging — not in a performative way, but in a "let's figure out how you grow here" way. Each role I've moved into has asked more of me than the one before. That's not accidental. It's what I came for, and it's what Danone made possible.
