The Team

You will be part of EU Innovation and Productivity Realization Office (IPRO). This team is responsible for managing the portfolio of projects for First Diet (Baby Food), Waters, Dairy, Plant-based and governing stage gates of the projects. EU IPRO team closely collaborates with cross-functional teams: Research & Innovation, Cycles and Procurement, Quality & Food Safety, Specifications, Operations Performance Project (OPP, managing projects from factories), 3rd Party Manufacturing (3PM), as well as Sales & Operations . You will report to EU IPRO senior manager, who is ready to help you grow! There is a high team spirit and a lot of resilience; they like to work hard to deliver great results but always with team effort & a great, international atmosphere!

In the team there will be 8 members spread across 2 countries: France, Poland. You will be mainly working with the team in France.

Your Mission

Your main projects at the start will be:

1. Drive projects’ successful landing by coordinating with different project team members, leading drumbeat meetings, and presenting progress in governance forums. Examples of sustainability related projects or duplication project (switch ingredient X supplied from supplier A to supplier B)

2. Maintain and update current databases, by connecting with supply chain colleagues to get the right data. You also have the freedom to improve the presentation of it. These tools will be used to make impactful decisions and consequently integrity of the information is paramount! Examples of databases that you will be managing: savings dashboards (Fuel for Growth), Innovation tracker (IProView tool), Masterfile and mapping of all factories, Project Budget monitoring, etc.

3. Lead process and tools improvement 

Analyse project management actual ways of working. Highlight gaps vs standards and identify improvement opportunities. Recommend solutions and implement test runs. You will be our fresh set of eyes on constantly evolving processes and tools!

What’s in it for you?

• Develop organizational awareness of Danone & build your network. 
• Work with experienced professionals
• Widen your experience by covering an extended part of the supply chain and interfaces within key strategic functions
• Increase your analytical skills
• Great way to start your career at Danone! Possibility to grow into a job afterwards

You are a Bachelor/Master student in i.e. Food Science, Economics, Procurement or Supply Chain. You are an autonomous team player enjoying challenges and solving analytical problems. You have a great eye for detail, and you have powerful data management skills. You don’t give up easily and you like to go the extra mile to have all necessary information to make the right recommendations. You like to communicate with many colleagues to get the right data from them, so you are fluent in English and you love Excel & Powerpoint (PowerBi experience is a not a requisite, but a plus).

There are also some compulsory requirements:

• Enrolled as a Bachelors/Masters student during the whole internship period (if you are a non-EU citizen, you need to be enrolled at a French university);
• Ideally available to start in September for approx. 6 months, 5 days per week;

• You are fluent in English - oral and written; French is a plus.
• Please note that you are required to relocate to France (if abroad) for this internship.

At Danone, we guarantee that you can simply be yourself. We believe that it's up to you to define the way you work, to develop yourself, to progress.

With us, you'll work in an exciting, complex and challenging environment. This is how you will create new opportunities!

You will work with world-renowned brands such as Blédina, Evian or Actimel. Be innovative, enterprising and the impact you will have will impress you.

Join our movement for a more sustainable world. One Planet One Health BY YOU.