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Danone

Global foods and beverages company

Milk Farm Relationship Model Manager - AMEA, Milk FRM

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of milk and milk sourcing.
  • Experience within a milk organization, ideally in both local and regional roles.
  • Strong understanding of commercial models, pricing strategies, and market dynamics.
  • Strong analytical and project management skills, including comfort working with data and benchmarks.
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders.
  • Ability to operate in an international and complex environment and manage several priorities simultaneously.

Responsibilities

  • Support local CBUs in defining farm relationship models to strengthen and manage relationships with farmers.
  • Define and deploy standard farm clustering criteria, recommend the most relevant farm portfolio mix, and support implementation across CBUs.
  • Design, optimize, and deploy commercial models for each country, aligned with local and global strategic priorities.
  • Consolidate farmgate prices and benchmark them against market prices and other CBUs.
  • Co-design commercial rules for different farm types and ensure their effective implementation by local teams.
  • Identify opportunities to improve costs and business performance through timely negotiations with farming partners.
  • Analyze existing organizations and ways of working, and recommend effective local models based on internal and external benchmarks.
  • Define external farm relationship model activities for each CBU to maximize value and leverage external expertise.
  • Establish and monitor key performance indicators to measure the success of milk procurement activities.
  • Support CBUs in monitoring farm-related topics, including volumes, forecast accuracy, farm development, sustainability, and quality requirements.
  • Contribute data-driven recommendations to improve supply security, cost competitiveness, sustainability, and milk valorization.
  • Define a regional knowledge dissemination plan and support its local implementation across CBUs.
  • Identify and benchmark digital technologies related to dairy farming.
  • Strengthen knowledge sharing across the region and contribute to improving how local teams advise and engage with farmers.
  • Ensure best practices and relevant external expertise are effectively leveraged across the organization.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving economic performance indicators, including protein/fat cost, milk price, cash, productivity, and competitiveness.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving supply indicators, including volumes, protein/fat coverage, farm size, supply portfolio diversification, and farm clustering evolution.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving compliance indicators, including procure-to-pay processes and contract management.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving feed indicators, including feed autonomy, feed conversion ratio, feed costs, and MRM.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving farming indicators, including herd size, milking cows, yield, lactation, pregnancy rate, and farm profitability.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving quality indicators, including solid content, fat, protein, and carbohydrate percentages, somatic cell count, and TVC.
  • Contribute to monitoring and improving sustainability indicators, including CO₂, CH₄, water, biodiversity, and animal welfare.
  • Develop and implement strategic plans aligned with the objectives of the Milk organization.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deploy commercial models and pricing strategies.
  • Manage several projects simultaneously and deliver within agreed timelines.
  • Analyze data, conduct benchmarks, and formulate fact-based recommendations.
  • Communicate strategies, plans, and recommendations clearly to local, regional, and global stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in data-powered transformation projects.

About the Company

Danone

Global foods and beverages company

Danone is a global food and beverage company focused on Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition. It sells brands like Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Evian, Nutricia, and Volvic across more than 120 markets, employing over 100,000 people. Its products aim to support health and sustainability, guided by the One Planet. One Health framework and 2030 goals, with a plan to pursue B Corp certification by 2025. It differentiates itself with a mission-driven approach, the Entreprise à Mission status in France, and strong sustainability commitments across a diversified brand portfolio to bring healthy, sustainable eating to as many people as possible.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1919

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