RESPECT Program - internship

Job description

Danone is one of the most successful healthy food companies in the world with the mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible.

Our Global Strategic Resources Cycles (SRC) Department, located in Schiphol (NL) is now looking for a:

RESPECT PROGRAM INTERN

(Full-time)

with the assignment on Sustainability within Procurement to:

"Monitor, support and accelerate the integration of Corporate Sustainable Sourcing at Danone Early Life Nutrition and Advanced Medical Nutrition divisions"

 

Driven by passionate people and a common purpose, it will bring to Danone competitiveness, license to operate, differentiation and embed sustainability all along our value cycle.

We are looking for an intern with good organizational skills and passion for sustainability, to work with us on the Sustainable Procurement Program (RESPECT). You will be a key player in supporting the RESPECT program for the Danone Early Life Nutrition (ELN) and Advance Medical Nutrition (AMN) divisions: working towards a higher level of ethical and sustainable sourcing across both divisions. You will be supervised by the Global RESPECT Manager with the secondary reporting line to the SSD Innovation Manager.

 

As the RESPECT PROGRAM INTERN you are responsible for: 

·  Animation of RESPECT program, which includes:
·  Monitoring suppliers’ ethical progress, including action plans and audit realization.
·  Reporting and communicating program results and progress to the procurement teams, Procurement Executive Committee and Group HQ.
·  Looking after the data, making it comprehensive, visual and meaningful with the ultimate goal of driving high levels of sustainability compliance among suppliers of the divisions.

 

·  Supporting, and encouraging the development of awareness for sustainable sourcing both at corporate and local organizational level.

 

·  Consolidating information between online ethical data sharing platform (SEDEX) and DANONE’s sustainable procurement database:
·  Recognizing opportunities to optimize the current process.
·  Diagnosing constraints of the current process.

 

·  Assisting with the Suppliers risk assessment using SEDEX platform.

 

·  Research to contribute towards Danone’s sustainable sourcing strategy.

We are looking for a RESPECT PROGRAM INTERN with the following profile:

Experience & Technical Knowledge:

·  Msc. Student in Supply Chain or Business Administration University Degree with academic knowledge of sustainability, or a degree in Sustainability/Environmental Sciences.

 

Skills & Competencies:

·  Self-starter capable of operating independently and pro-actively within guidelines.
·  Strong analytical skills and have proven excellence in execution.
·  Working in a matrix organization is no issue for you and you have exceptionally strong networking and communication skills.
·  Ability to adapt and resilience in a changing work environment is a must.
·  Excellent spoken English is required. Other languages are a plus.
·  Experienced Excel user is preferred.

 

Please be advised that this position is open for registered students only! You should be able to provide us with a proof of enrollment for the whole duration of this internship (6-12 months).

At this moment we can only accept applications from the EU nationals.

Starting date: as soon as possible.

 

Are you interested in joining us?

Apply directly via https://jobs.danone.com/ . Applications via mail or Indeed are not taken into consideration. For more information about the position or the procedure please contact Marlou Scholtes (Corporate Recruiter) on ************@*******.** .

 

About the company

Danone is a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the most successful healthy food companies in the world. Its mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible. This is the mission of Danone that guides our 2,500 “Danoners” in the Netherlands and more than 100,000 worldwide on an everyday basis. Fulfilling this mission is a major contributor to Danone’s continuous strong growth.

 

Danone, with 190 plants and around 100,000 employees, has a presence in all five continents and over 120 countries. In 2015, Danone recorded € 22 billion in sales. Danone enjoys leading positions on healthy food in four businesses: fresh dairy products (n°1 worldwide), water (n°2 on the packaged water market), early life nutrition (n°2 worldwide) and medical nutrition (n°3 worldwide). Listed on NYSE Euronext Paris, Danone is a component stock of leading social responsibility indexes including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Vigeo and the Ethibel Sustainability Index.

 

Danone Place Schiphol, located in WTC Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport, is the decision center for the company's most dynamic and fastest growing ELN and AMN divisions, and is the ideal place to gain experience. It touches every part of the organization and therefore has a direct impact on the success of the business. Because our culture is based on freedom and empowerment, this is an environment where every day can be a new adventure – full of possibilities and real excitement.

 

Strategic Resource Cycles Department

The Food & Water Cycle is one of our key strategic ambitions and embodies to protect and enhance our essential resources: Milk, Water & Plastic. These essential resources are the heart of our business in collaboration with our communities along the Food & Water Cycles. We do this through co-building the circular economy around our essential resources, leveraging alliances and technologies and nourishing meaningful brands for our consumers. The Strategic Resource Cycles (SRC) is the brand new cross-division organization that consists of the sourcing capabilities and dedicated transversal teams that will deliver the Food & Water Cycle ambitions, contributing to securing our license to operate and strengthening our competitive advantage. By working together and sharing knowledge across functions and business units we will generate more value for the business, our ecosystem and our consumers.

 

 

Experience: Students

 

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