JOINING DANONE: IT’S… 

Meet Danoners with unique personalities and varied professional backgrounds; 
Growing up in different environments: production sites, logistics bases, research and innovation centers or even head offices; 
Build a tailor-made career path, adapted to your personality, your skills and your desires; 
Learn through empowering, rich and learning missions. 

DANONE COMPANY WITH MISSION  

In June 2020, Danone became the first listed company to adopt Mission Company status. We have in fact decided to equip ourselves with a reason for being and associated social, societal and environmental objectives included in our statutes. This is a historic step to continue to achieve our mission every day – “bringing health through food to as many people as possible” – as part of our “One Planet” action framework. One health.

Roles & Responsibilities:

You will work with a cross functional team of Customer Development, Finance, Supply Chain, R&D, Media amongst others.

• Aligns the strategy across the organization through a pragmatic combination of a clear long-term vision and the achievement of day-to-day goals ;
• Identify consumers’ needs and wants for Danone’s products, and provide inputs to Research & Development and technical team to design the right package and formula to win with local consumers ;
• Applies creative thinking and generates new ideas to build brands and grow the business :
• Lead the development and execution of the integrated communication and media plans, maximizing Media ROI, working with internal and external media partners ;
• Cooperate with sales planning, customer teams and shopper marketing to ensure growth across channels ;
• Constantly challenges the sales organization to ensure its results and effectiveness ;
• Manage all business financials, including brand P&L budgeting and tracking;
• Deliver Scorecard Business Targets, in line with the goals of the Business Unit ;
• Deliver Category growth, market penetration and gaining of New Users via Products Innovation Design ;
• Successful Design and Deployment of Marketing Toolkits for the Brand.

Qualifications :

• Minimum 8 to 10 years experience in Marketing in FMCG.
• Full understanding of key drivers of brand/product P&L and how to action them.
• Solid experience in new product/brand launches or renovations. Experience in working and engaging with cross functional teams: Supply Chain, and Sales department.
• Strong understanding of market research and insight and ability to leverage into brand development and/or activation strategies.
• Strong ability to turn insights into business propositions.
• Demonstrated creativity, curiosity and strategic thinking skills.
• Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills.
• Strong ability to communicate and team capabilities.

At Centrale Danone, we believe that each time we eat and drink, we can vote for the world we want. This has inspired the definition of our long-term goals which flow directly from our 'One Planet. One Health' vision. As we strengthen our business model and nourish our dual economic and social project, we have every confidence we will deliver our business and financial agenda, as well as create and share sustainable value for all.

Through our commitment to social and economic progress, and our passion for bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we aim to generate profitable, sustainable growth now and for many years to come. Centrale Danone achieved a turnover of approximately 7 billion dirhams in 2017, with a brand portfolio that includes both international brands (Activia, Danette, Nutricia, Oykos,...) and local brands (Raibi Jamila, Velouté,Assil, ...)