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CDI - Senior Legal Council - (M/W)

  • France
  • Gif-Sur-Yvette
  • Permanent Full-Time
  • Posted: 24 Feb 2025
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CDI - Senior Legal Council - (M/W)

About the job

Danone France does not seek to be the best company in the world, but better for the world! That’s why our 26 brands in France are B Corp TM certified. *  

B Corp is the compass of our CSR strategy! This certification allows us to challenge ourselves in order to continuously improve and measure our social and environmental performance. 


Danone operates several research centers globally, including one in Paris-Saclay, France, which employs around 2,100 people, with 500 based in France. This center features offices, laboratories, pilot lines (small production lines), and support functions for R&I. It is situated alongside many prestigious scientific ecosystems such as INRAE, Ecole Normale Superieure, and Universite Paris-Saclay. Through strategic pillars like winning product culture, sustainable by design, and talent powerhouse, it aims to become a flagship of health through food.

 

This CDI will take place in Gif-sur-Yvette (91), in our global Research & Innovation center.


This role will enable you to develop your skills as Legal Council and to integrate an international environment, focussing on the Research & Innovation side of the business.

Your main responsibilities are:

  • Provide expert and legal advice and support to the R&I teams on projects, always ensuring aligned wow with R&I Legal.
  • Draft, negotiate and validate service, collaboration, research, development and partnership agreements.
  • Contribute to execute the industrial property strategy of the company for all R&I activities while protecting Danone’s IP and confidentiality.
  • Provide expert and legal advice and support to the R&I teams on projects, always ensuring aligned wow with R&I Legal.
  • Draft, negotiate and validate service, collaboration, research, development and partnership agreements.
  • Contribute to execute the industrial property strategy of the company for all R&I activities while protecting Danone’s IP and confidentiality.
  • Provide expert and legal advice and support to the R&I teams on projects, always ensuring aligned wow with R&I Legal.
  • Draft, negotiate and validate service, collaboration, research, development and partnership agreements.
  • Contribute to execute the industrial property strategy of the company for all R&I activities while protecting Danone’s IP and confidentiality.

 

Our employer commitments:   

  • The guarantee of a relevant, competitive and scalable compensation package, through external benchmark and internal equity. It consists among other things of a fixed salary, an yearly bonus, gain sharing, and a Danone share. 

  • Flexibility of work and workplaces, such as weekly homeworking.

  • Skills development for all, thanks to our Danone Academy France and through a year-round managerial conversation cycle. 

  • The possibility to use up to 3 days a year of volunteering through the platform Vendredi

  • Parenting policy benefits, such as extended Parental Leave (14 additional maternity/paternity days covered), or the ability to convert some earnings into time off 

  • Other benefits include a complementary pension scheme, health care plan, CSE, 100% of the Navigo pass covered.

About you

ABOUT YOU

The criteria below remain indicative. A candidate who has a different combination of experience and skills could also be considered.   

  • You hold a Master's degree in Law and have already gained initial experience in an international environment.
  • You have a strong networking mindset and have what it takes to become a solid business partner for the R&I teams
  • Actively interact and involve other functions where needed to achieve results (C&P, Finance, HR…)
  • Work together with the C&P team in all matters linked to purchase of goods and services of R&I
  • Interact with global teams such as Corporate Compliance, Data Privacy… and ensure alignment in the wow
  • Interact proactively with global legal R&I team, IP and Patents teams.
  • English (and French) will be essential to communicate with the rest of the team !

We are proud to promote diversity and equal opportunity within our teams. We believe that our differences will make a difference, and that an inclusive work environment will drive our growth as a company, as a team, and as individuals. We will therefore consider all applications* by fostering an inclusive work culture where everyone can feel at home.   

We have also chosen to remove inclusive writing from our job offers because its complexity penalizes people with cognitive disabilities, including dyslexia, dysphasia, or apraxia.  

*All nominations will be considered regardless of origin, background, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability… 

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About Danone

One Planet, One Health - BY YOU! 

Our four core values "HOPE": HUMANISM, OPENNESS, CLOSENESS and ENTHUSIASM serve as our compass. 

Every day, you will make decisions that impact our economic and societal performance, as well as our ability to achieve our ambitions.  

At Danone, you can just be yourself. We are convinced that it is up to YOU to define how you work, develop and progress. 

With us, you will work in a challenging, authentic, and caring environment.  

Want to know more about the daily life of our danoners? Check out our LinkedIn page and our @DanoneTalentFrance Instagram account. 

You want to take action to bring health through food to as many people as possible? Join us!

#LI-FR 

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Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition. 

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