Danone is looking for a Waters QFS Manufacturing Senior Manager, based in Evian-les-Bains, France. 

Danone is a global food company holding top positions in healthy food through its four businesses: Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters, and Medical Nutrition. Its mission, bringing health through food to as many people as possible, embodies commitment to human progress and business success. It gives meaning to the work of our 100,000 Danoners worldwide on an everyday basis. For passionate people looking for autonomy and exciting career opportunities, Danone truly has something special inside!

This role is responsible for the category QFS performance in manufacturing both for Danone owned factories and in Co-manufacturers.

The main purpose of the Category QFS Manufacturing role is ensuring operational QFS excellence.

Operational QFS :

• To be a main point of contact with the factory QFS organization ensuring sufficient time and leadership to develop QFS capability within factory teams
• To establish a 2 way stream of feedback to and from European factories, category teams and global QFS to ensure a strengthening of standards and increased performance.
• To be accountable for the implementation of the Danone QFS product and operational QFS standards across all the factories (Danone owned or Co-Manufacturers) within the designated category.
• To ensure the Quality Management System within the factories meets the needs of the product and consumer.
• To drive within each factory a QFS culture of transparency, continuous improvement and zero-defect minded executional excellence.
• To monitor end-to-end QFS performance and consumer satisfaction metrics, reporting, data and insights analytics and make strategies for addressing gaps and performance issue as well as recognizing good performance
• To co-design with factories and supply chain change projects (CapEx and OpEx) to drive food safety compliance and consumer satisfaction.
• To be an IWS expert and lead delivery of the Quality Pillar
• To develop the capabilities within the category QFS team and in the factories to deliver & execute the digital and IWS agenda.
• To audit CoManufacturers in line with FSI standards and according to the requirements of the Global CoMan team
• To ensure CoManufacturers meet all the requirements of the global CoMan teams

The role covers all end-to-end QFS design and operational activities, within the designated category in the European Zone.

KEY DELIVERABLES :

Leadership

• Lead by example with a servant leadership focus enabling a culture of teamwork and trust across all teams
• Develop highly competent factory QFS organizations that are technically and capable of implementing strong quality management systems
• Establish a category network linking factories, technical expertise and global QFS teams to drive best practice, shared learnings and ultimately category performance
• Establish strong, collaborative relationships with Factory Directors, Operations, R&I, C&P and Supply Chain teams
• Work openly and proactively with zone QFS teams and categories to drive overall performance in the Europe zone
• Develop strategies for continuous QFS improvement in designated category but also input to zone QFS strategy

Compliance

• Ensure implementation of food safety and quality policy, procedures and standards in factories and in quality in design processes
• Deliver the implementation of reference analytical tools and methods in factory laboratories
• Ensure audit non-conformances are followed up and closed

Governance & Reporting

• Ensure transparency in reporting issues, KPIs and QFS risks using the Danone systems and standards
• Fully Interrogate KPIs and consumer feedback to evaluate product performance and protect brand integrity
• Escalate and manage issues and potential QFS risks timely, to appropriate stakeholders while fully securing product, brand integrity and consumer safety.  This includes risk due to factory team capability, performance or product non-conformance.

Ensure robust action plans created from a deep root cause analysis are in place and follow up on action closure.

Key expectations from the role owner

• Strong ownership and demonstration of Danone behaviors and values.
• Proven strategic mindset with servant leadership in focus to enable functional teams for execution with excellence.
• Mastery and globally recognized expertise in QFS systems and programs management..
• Excellent communication skills and leadership courage.
• Strong leadership to drive change within the organization.
• Strong problem solving skills and focus on enabling excellence in execution.
• Facts and data driven, with strong synthesis and analytical capabilities

The opportunity to join a team with high energy and strong convictions to achieve our environmental objectives, part of the Danone Impact Journey.

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.

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

Every day, you will take 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.

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