At Danone, we believe that every time we eat or drink, we vote for the world we want. As a leading food and beverage company, we make healthy, sustainably produced foods and beverages that nourish people's lives. As the largest Certified B Corporation in the world, we are committed to redefining business success to ensure that through our brands we create real benefits for people, our communities, and the planet.

We are looking for a Senior Ferment Technologist who will be in charge of the identification and benchmarking of new strains and new ferment solutions enabling product superiority, optimal nutrition or specific health benefit across all product categories.

Your main responsibilities will focus on:

• Integrate strains biodiversity, fermentation processes and emerging technological, molecular, digital approaches in collaboration with suppliers and external partners.
• Provide support and advices for the implementation of the ferment and fermentation solutions to the R&I product development teams.
• Contribute with the other experts in the field, to nurture ferment R&I strategy.
• Handle synergies with other R&I functions, UX, engineering, quality, operations and procurement.

To be successful in this role we believe that is it positive to have:

• Education: PhD in Microbiology or applied fermentation.
• Experience: 10 years of experience in the field of microbiology, culture, fermentation. 
• Languages: Good level of English and Spanish. 
• Skills: Leadership, pragmatic, innovative, curious, pedagogic, project management.
• Stakeholders: Large interaction with culture suppliers and partners (public, private), with R&I cross categories, C&P, R&I, UX, Quality internal functions.
• Availability to travel about 30% of time to visit suppliers, partners and EU teams.

Working at Danone gives you the chance to impact more than 12 million consumers in, where we lead the ranking of the most chosen brands in the country.
 
In addition, Danone is the largest BCorp company and that drives us every day to increase our efforts in sustainability, our impact on society and our workers.
 
And what’s next?
 
If you have come this far you will have already convinced yourself... Apply!!
 
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