Danone Türkiye is looking for a talented colleague for the "Line Manager, Lüleburgaz". Take this opportunity to GROW together!

As a Line Manager, you will be expected to demonstrate strong business ownership, operational discipline, and exemplary leadership behaviors. In this role, you will have full responsibility for the Aseptic Filling operation, ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, efficiency, and people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Aseptic Filling line operations, ensuring compliance with food safety, quality, and operational excellence standards.
• Make sound decisions by fully understanding business dynamics, such as shipments, initiative plans, and marketing strategies.
• Approach every decision with an ownership mindset: “What would I do if I owned this business?”
• Prioritize the business needs over personal popularity within the team.
• Lead change confidently and take necessary risks to drive business improvement, rather than simply collecting team opinions.
• Consistently role-model high standards, knowing that your minimum standard becomes the team’s maximum.
• Always comply with safety requirements and never overlook unsafe behaviors or conditions; initiate sustainable corrective actions when needed.
• Demonstrate strong GMP and housekeeping discipline—your behavior sets the tone for the entire line.
• Make decisions that uphold foundational priorities—Safety, Quality, and Integrity always come before Production metrics.
• Address equipment standard gaps immediately, as they reflect the team's capability and effectiveness in AM/DMS execution.
• Show leadership consistently, regardless of location—whether on the line, in the office, cafeteria, or any other area, your behavior is always observed.
• Enforce DMS discipline rigorously; poor DMS execution indicates a failure to meet operational responsibilities.
• Inspire employee performance, support career development, and foster engagement and retention.
• Build organizational capability and develop strong teams that consistently deliver high performance.
• Hold team leaders accountable for results and capability gaps, ensuring readiness for a 24/7 operational environment.
• Provide coaching and leverage structured programs such as the Team Leader Development Program (TLDP) to develop leadership capability.
• Identify capability gaps when results are not achieved despite full effort, and proactively bring external expertise to close these gaps.
• Take a global mindset when seeking solutions; with more than 100 enterprise lines worldwide, most challenges are not unique.
• Act as a responsible member of the global community by complying with global standards (e.g., CMP), viewing them as best practices developed across advanced sites.
• Demonstrate true leadership under pressure—difficult situations are opportunities to show resilience, clarity, and decisiveness.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Food Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in production and manufacturing environments within the pharmaceutical, food, beverage, dairy, or FMCG industries, including at least 3 years of hands-on experience in aseptic filling/aseptic processing operations, is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of and experience with the IWS (Integrated Work System) methodology.
• Proficient in MS Office programs; SAP knowledge is preferred.
• Strong time management, planning, organization, and follow-up skills.
• Good command of English, both written and spoken.
• Strong leadership and people management capabilities.
• Willing to reside in Lüleburgaz.

Being a Danoner means that you create your own working experience.

• You could design your own way of working with our hybrid working model.
• Our head office is in Ataşehir.
• You could decide your daily 8-hours of working period within our flexible-working hours
• We know that you will have home expenses during home office days. So, Danone supports you for your expenses with an allowance as well!
• Summers are flexible here!  You could work fully remote for 2 weeks during summer, and enjoy an additional 2 weeks of fully remote working anytime throughout the year.
• We also enjoy Fridays during summer period between July and August by finishing our works by 15:00 and enjoy the rest of the day and starting the weekend earlier.
• Danone offers various types of leave days to support Danoners’ work-life balance and well-being. We have a wide variety of leave types, such as in your first year 5 days of "Im New in Danone Leave"; 1 day of "My Future is Good Leave" for our social responsibility activities. These options cater to different aspects of employees' lives and needs, reflecting the company's commitment to not only professional growth but also personal and social responsibilities.

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 implementations* by fostering an inclusive work culture where everyone can feel at home.

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

Working with us is about being able to do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you.

Working here, you’ll need to enjoy a fast-paced environment, a little complexity and challenging tasks but it is packed with opportunities. You will work for some of the best-known brands in the world, such as Activia, Danone, Danino, Danette, Aptamil, Bebelac, Hayat, and Sırma, and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.
 

Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet One Health BY YOU.

At Danone Türkiye, inspired by our B Corp journey, we continuously challenge ourselves to improve and measure our social and environmental impact. 

This journey inspires us to constantly challenge ourselves, measure what truly matters, and create long-term value — not just for our business, but for our people, partners, communities, and future generations.
If you’re looking to grow your career with purpose, you’re in the right place.

What we offer

This is a visible position within the company, we offer opportunities where you can grow your expertise and have an end-to-end responsibility to drive "change" & "growth”. You will have a chance to experience 360 ways of working with multiple stakeholders. We develop talents and growth potential to enable strong career development for our employees.

What’s next?

Visit our website www.danone.com to discover more about us and to find out how you could be part of it all!

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