Food Safety & Toxicology Scientist

Job description

Danone is looking for a Food Safety & Toxicology Scientist France (FR)Palaiseau!

Danone is a global food company holding top positions in healthy food through its four businesses: Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters, and Medical Nutrition. Its mission, bringing health through food to as many people as possible, embodies commitment to human progress and business success. It gives meaning to the work of our 100,000 Danoners worldwide on an everyday basis. For passionate people looking for autonomy and exciting career opportunities, Danone truly has something special inside!

You believe Quality and Food Safety are the priority in the Food Industry?

You want to have an impactful role to anticipate and assess chemical food safety risks?

Join Danone as Food Safety & Toxicology Scientist Manager !

This position based in Palaiseau (91) near Paris and may require up to 20% of traveling.

Context:

Under the responsibility of the Chief Food Safety Officer (CFSO), the Department Food Safety at Danone (FS@D) has the mission to ensure that Danone creates, manufactures and delivers its products everyday with no compromise on food safety by strictly following the Danone compliance policy and anticipating emerging risks. The scope covered by the FS@D includes all businesses, partners, co-manufacturers and third parties.

The role of the FS@D Department is to:

• Provide Food Safety scientific expertise

• Monitor, identify, assess and characterize all relevant existing and emerging Food Safety Risks

• Screen new scientific evolutions and Food Safety Regulations

• Identify and propose Food Safety Risk Management options

• Draw up a set of guidelines on key Food Safety topics

• Recommend and validate reference analytical tools + methods

• Interpret results and recommend corrective actions

• Define Food Safety Management Systems & Audits to enforce risk management

Reporting to the Food Safety Leader Ingredients & Packaging, the Food Safety & Toxicology Scientist Manager will have the following missions:

1. Conduct and review toxicological risk assessment on chemical substances from various origins (e.g. from raw and packaging materials, intentionally added ingredients) for the whole Danone products portfolio:

• in support of new products developments (safety by design),

• in urgencies situations (i.e., crises/incidents)

2. As part of company’s Horizon Scanning activity, lead the tracking of:

• emerging science on new toxicological and food safety risks,

• new toxicological risk assessment methodologies,

• evolutions in food safety regulations and,

• new food safety issues relevant to the Danone product portfolio

3. Investigate and implement new risk assessment methodologies in the context of business support

4. Drive and manage cross-functional projects related to the area food safety risk assessment and, deliver clear and transparent toxicological risk assessments enabling robust decision-making based on updated scientific data

5. Being able to identify and engage when required with scientific experts, external scientific organizations and trade associations in order to support Danone’s food safety strategic objectives

6. Develop and drive risk communication in the context of food safety risk management activities and continuous improvement of Danone Quality and Food Safety Management System

We offer you:

• An opportunity to follow new scientific developments in the field of toxicology and chemical risk assessment and, implement those to develop science-based food safety standards to be used worldwide in Danone

• An opportunity to engage in transversal projects and foster collaboration

• An opportunity to collaborate with internal and external Scientists and enlarge your network

• Diversified career opportunities within an international company

Your profile

• Strong scientific skills with relevant education in toxicology, food safety, biology, physiology, (bio)chemistry, pharmacology or nutritional sciences (minimum MSc, PhD is a plus)

• Board certification in Toxicology (is a plus),

• Knowledge or hands on chemical toxicological risk assessment applied in the industry context (i.e.,5 years of experience)

• High level of competence in reviewing, interpreting, summarizing and communicating on scientific literature

• Practical knowledge on new risk assessment methodologies in relation to computational and in vitro toxicological testing

• Knowledge on food safety regulations and strong competencies in project management

• Autonomy: ability to prioritize deliverables and apply procedures and practices with excellence

• Strong communication skills, open to communicate and build network internally and externally

• Ability to convince, to work with multidisciplinary teams and adapt to different ways of working/cultures

• Good proficiency in English (spoken, written)

Learn more about Danone… 'One Planet, One Health'...

Danone is a company committed to an inspiring mission: 'Bringing health through food to as many people as possible'. This ambition takes the commitments on a daily basis around social and environmental issues with local communities, farmers, our partners...

Danone is a world leader on 4 professions: dairy products and plant, infant nutrition, water, and medical nutrition. Our portfolio includes brands renowned internationally (Evian, Activia, Actimel, Alpro, Danette, Aptamil...).

Come grow with passionate and enthusiastic teams! You'll find an environment that the proximity and encourages taking the initiative. Come and contribute to a rich project sense.

Come lead with us the 'Food Revolution'

For more information about Danone, its people and its business, please visit danone.com We have something special inside, do you?
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