Head of HR- Danone Waters North America (DWA)

Job description

USG - Danone Waters of America, Inc., a subsidiary of Danone, is looking forHead of HR- Danone Waters North America (DWA) in United States (US) forWhite Plains, NY

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.

DWA is the Danone Water entity which is selling Evian, Badoit and Volvic in the US and Canada since 1978. Evian is the #1 bottled water brand worldwide with a presence in more than 110 countries.

Over the last 3 years, DWA business has been accelerating its expansion across North America, moving to a double digit pace of growth in a very dynamic thus competitive market category. Its business model has been evolving to a multi distributors – multi channels approach with a strong focus on winning in key cities in North America.

In the meantime, the business unit has been growing from 60 to 95 people in this period, entering new geographies, integrating new capabilities and enhancing a new company culture embracing the water spirit (restless attitude, resilience and grit).

The ambition of DWA is to become the #1 imported water brand in the US (already #1 in Canada)

Summary of core responsibilities:

The overall head of HR mission is to support the CBU expansion and transformation from a people and organization standpoint creating the right energizing culture and enabling the DWA team with the right tools and training.

In order to be successful in this mission, the HR leader is part of the HR Leadership team in North America and needs to leverage this HR ecosystem (CBS centers of expertise in Talent/Organization-Learning-Comp and Ben) raising DWA voice and interest while creating a meaningful global Danone HR approach in North America

This role is reporting hierarchically to the DWA General Manager and functionally to the Head of HR North America.

The main responsibilities in this job are:

·  Design HR strategy and prioritization (DWA/North America)
·  Engage Evw, Water and Danone Wave HR stakeholders
·  Foster the Organization Development & co drive the company culture transformation
·  Recruit, develop and retain the best Talents
·  Design and ensure implementation Compensation-Benefits-North America policies programs
·  Maximize Employees engagement
·  Ensuring DWA HR Compliance

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Location White Plains HQ

Bachelor Degree in HR or a related field required

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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Danone Waters of America, Inc. (DWA) is a company of Groupe Danone, a leading global food and beverages company which mission is to bring health through food and beverages to a maximum number of people. DWA has accountability for best in class water execution across the United States and Canada for the evian, Badoit and Volvic brands.

Working for Danone Waters of America, Inc offers candidates progressive career opportunities in North America and our employees are part of a global network that offers the opportunity for continuous development. We are looking for passionate candidates that are looking forward to work in an entrepreneurial culture and embrace our company leadership values. Ultimately, our success depends on the quality of our employees.

Danone Waters of America is an equal employment and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other unlawful criterion.

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