As an R&I Manager, you’ll drive innovation in our dairy, waters and plant-based products. Collaborate with diverse teams and lead exciting projects to shape our market presence.

Key responsibilities & activities: 

• Participate in defining innovation and renovation projects for dairy, plant-based products, and beverages. Create and co-create project briefs based on market and consumer data.
• Collaborate with representatives from various departments on different initiatives and projects.
• Work on solutions to improve efficiency and cost savings for dairy products and beverages
• Support the launch of new products and enhance your and your team's knowledge through organizing tasting sessions, consumer tests, and preparing project documentation.
• Represent the perspective of Polish consumers in local and European activities.
• Share best practices, generate new ideas, and improvements within the department's activities. Continuously expand your knowledge about the market, consumers, and new product and technology trends.

• You have a higher education degree (preferably in Food Technology or related fields)
• You have 2+ years of experience working in the FMCG industry (preferably in the food sector) in R&D, quality, operations, or marketing departments.
• You know the basics of food law, have knowledge of raw materials, and understand basic technological processes.
• You have experience in project management or actively participate in projects.
• You are fluent in English (both spoken and written for daily work) and Polish.
• You can collaborate in international teams with people at different organizational levels.
• You are proactive, open-minded, and solution oriented.

At the Danone group we are fulfilling our mission, according to which „we bring health to as many people as possible”.

Benefits and employment conditions:

• Hybrid work model, allowing to combine remote and stationary work (3:2 model) in an office located in Warsaw's Mokotów district
• Opportunity to develop competencies in an atmosphere of constructive feedback, in a direction consistent with the employee's professional ambitions
• Workation - the ability to combine work with leisure - for 30 days a year, you can work from virtually any location in Europe.
• Access to a benefits platform offering discounts on company products and vouchers for cultural and sports events.
• Subsidy for Luxmed / Medicover - after all, we prioritize health!
• Subsidy for a Multisport card.

WHAT NEXT?

Click the “Apply” button and create your profile in the recruitment system by uploading a CV. We will get acquainted with your experience and then we will arrange the selected candidates for the first telephone interview. Next steps are two meetings with your future managers at Danone.

We embrace diversity in our organization. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability status.

Danone Sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Warsaw (ul. Bobrowiecka 8, 00-728 Warszawa) is the controller of your personal data disclosed in the profile and in documents submitted during the recruitment process.