VP of Supply Chain / Operations Business Lead - Plant Based Business

Quality, efficiency, and safety all play a big role in our work at Danone. Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for the Supply Chain team. We are currently looking to hire an Operations Business Lead for our Plant Based Business in White Plains, NY or Louisville, CO. This is a VP level role within our Supply Chain function.

Our Operations functions together create an integrated, streamlined, end-to-end value chain. Through the power of a single Operations function, we will deliver a superior product experience to our consumers and, through collaboration, we will turn our challenges into competitive advantages. With shared objectives and targets across the whole value chain, we will better allocate resources and prioritize high-value projects. Our lean, delayered organization will be more agile and enabled to focus on bigger, better, fewer innovations tied to our strategic priorities:

• You will be the Single Point of Accountability for delivering Value Chain components of RF1 / RF’s at the business unit (BU) level while activating value chain functions when required to provide integrated solutions for BU’s in addition to bringing the voice of the Value Chain into the BU’s.
• You will sit on the BU Leadership team, supported by the end to end Value Chain (VC) eco-system
• You will activate the functions in the development, alignment and implementation of solutions
• You will advise & align the BU Leadership to solutions
• You will engage as the Value Chain voice into the BU
• In partnership with VC organization, ensure we have right resources and capacity at the right time for both short and long term business need. Challenge the business in keeping an effective number of projects, ensure ruthless prioritization - optimize sku’s and project/portfolio management.
• Utilizing value chain experience and through appropriate influencing and decision making, support the team to drive solutions for key innovations that make the most sense for the overall business.
• Ensure that we collectively connect the dots across VC and in partnership with all stakeholders, to drive the right solutions that improve the cost of the business.
• Drive functional excellence across the enterprise-wide Value Chain
• Own Talent Management within the function
• Accountability for delivering functional components of the RF1 / RF’s
• Support the BU IVCS role in developing and implementing solutions

The base compensation range for this position is $225,000 - $280,000k per year commensurate with experience. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.

About You

• You will have a Bachelor’s Degree (Masters Degree preferred)
• You will have 12 to 15 years of S&OP experience
• You will have a mix of Manufacturing/Operations leadership experience as well as corporate Supply Chain leadership experience
• You will have experience working within a matrixed organization
• You will have experience in developing and managing interpersonal relationships to influence senior leadership decisions within BU
• You will have experience negotiating change and compromise with multiple levels of stakeholders across BU
• You will have previous knowledge of Microsoft products, Excel, PowerPoint, Word

About us

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You’ll be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.