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CDI - Food Law Councel - Dairy

  • France
  • Paris-Saclay
  • On-site
  • Permanent Full-Time
  • Posted: 2 Jun 2026
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About the job

For over 100 years, we’ve been by your side, all across France!

At Danone, we believe growth is something to be savored. That’s why our 26 brands are part of the everyday lives of French consumers, offering delicious products that bring enjoyment while taking care of oneself and loved ones. With more than 8,000 Danoners across 13 production sites, 7 warehouses, 3 headquarters and an R&D center, Danone continuously works on developing and enhancing iconic products found in your kitchens, supermarkets, restaurants, cafés, as well as in healthcare facilities and pharmacies. Certified B Corp and Happy Trainees, Danone does not aim to be the best company in the world, but a better company for the world. We strive to offer the very best to both our consumers and our people.

 

We are looking for a Food Law Counsel – Dairy (M/F) on a permanent contract (CDI), ASAP, based in Paris-Saclay.
The Food Law Counsel – Dairy ensures compliance across all segments of the food chain, including classification, labelling, and advertising, with a strong focus on nutrition and health claims for multi-local Dairy brands. In this role, you support CBU teams (Marketing, Claim Manager, Regulatory & Health Affairs, Innovation Task Force, local legal counsels) as well as Marketing Topline teams by providing guidance and monitoring product communications. You ensure that claims are consistent, robust, and aligned with clinical evidence and local regulatory frameworks, while anticipating their impact on our communications. Your recommendations must balance business needs with the protection of the Group’s interests.
 
Main responsabilities : 

 

  • Secure our communication towards our science and the applicable regulation
  • Following the evolving regulatory environment
  • Analyse/watch up coming legislations,
  • Contributes to the definition of Danone policies and protect our territories (categories, product definition such as probiotics, dairies ( milk, fermented milk, … ).
  • Implement the Group strategy to reinforce the ownability of our science, process, data and claims.
  • Draft and validation of contracts with third parties involving Regulatory topics,

 

The Food Law Counsel provides support to the CBU for the management of any legal issue/challenge resulting from the communication/labelling or presentation of our products.

 

  • Non-judicial actions (warning letters, negotiations,..)
  • Administrative actions: answer to Regulatory authorities, national bodies in charge of validating advertising.
  • Judicial actions: misleading advertising, unfair competition, class actions…;
  • Criminal actions ;

 

Our employer commitments: 

  • The guarantee of a relevant, competitive and scalable compensation package, through external benchmark and internal equity. It consists among other things of a fixed salary, an yearly bonus, gain sharing, and a Danone share.
  • Flexibility of work and workplaces, such as weekly homeworking. To be adapted according to the team
  • Skills development for all, thanks to our Danone Academy France and through a year-round managerial conversation cycle.
  • The possibility to use up to 3 days a year of volunteering through the platform Vendredi.
  • Parenting policy benefits, such as extended Parental Leave (14 additional maternity/paternity days covered), or the ability to convert some earnings into time off
  • Other benefits include a complementary pension scheme, health care plan, CSE, 100% of the Navigo pass covered

About you

The criteria below remain indicative. A candidate who has a different combination of experience and skills could also be considered.

  • From a Master degree in Law, added with a minimum of 8 years of experience, preferred in Food Law or Regulatory Affairs
  • Strong stakeholder management capabilities, used to interact with high level stakeholders in cross functional teams
  • Able to build the communication strategy and secure new projects and local needs, experience with health claims is a pre
  • Experience defending the brand against external challenges of communication labeling
  • Familiar with, used to work together with, external service providers (law firms, authorities etc.)
  • Proactive and collaborative mindset, able to challenge status quo, able to make an impact and solution orientated.

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.

We have also chosen to remove inclusive writing from our job offers because its complexity penalizes people with cognitive disabilities, including dyslexia, dysphasia, or apraxia.

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

About Danone

One Planet, One Health - BY YOU !

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

Every day, you will make 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.

Want to know more about the daily life of our danoners? Check out our LinkedIn page and our @DanoneTalentFrance Instagram account.

You want to take action to bring health through food to as many people as possible? Join us!

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