Project Manager

4 weeks ago

Bryanston, South Africa Danone Full time

About the job
To lead innovations and productivity projects for the DSA CBU.

**Act as project lead for new Product Development Projects such as**:
- Development of new and improved primary and secondary packaging.
- Extensions to existing ranges such as new flavours and formats.
- Breakthrough innovations
- Reformulations for superiority
- Product relaunches.
- Responsible for co-ordinating the activities of all the key contributing departments to ensure that the project is delivered on time, on budget, and in line with the brief.
- Providing updates to key stakeholders, including presenting gate change requests at PST and CODEV internal meetings.
- Minimising scope creep to prevent delays and additional costs.
- Challenging decisions made to ensure that the best possible solutions are found to problems encountered on the project.

**Act as project lead on Productivity Projects such as**:
- New supplier homologation.
- Reformulation for cost saving.
- Shelf life extensions.
- Responsibilities as per project lead for new product development.

**Champion correct project management process**
- Ensure Danone GOOSE process adhered to and that stage gate approval is obtained at the appropriate point in time.
- Assumptions used for volume and P&L projections are robust and that all key stakeholders have input prior to freezing the assumptions.
- Train new employees in partner functions on the GOOSE process and their role within it.
- Identify and implement lessons learned

**Tracking & Reporting**
- Produce reports tracking project KPI’s
- Develop and track project timelines

**Communication**
- Manage all stakeholders according to their needs, and CBU need for Project Management Performance.
- Arrange project meetings as required and follow up with meeting minutes

About you
Qualification:

- Undergraduate degree in engineering, business or other relevant discipline required.
- Project Management Professional certification preferred.
- 4 years of project management experience in an FMCG company or similar environment (high number of projects interacting together; big projects and fast pace of change) required.
- Technical background in manufacturing; marketing or research and development preferred.
- Experience in project management software preferred.
- Well-developed communication skills (oral, written and listening).
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects
- This role requires the co-ordination of different disciplines within the business to see complex projects through from start to completion in a fast paced and highly changeable environment.
- Short shelf life products; food safety requirements; technical requirements at the factory.

About us
**Do things your way, the way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s up to you.**

Working here you will need to enjoy a fast pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world, Such as Activia, Nutriday, Yogisip, Inkomazi etc. We absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

**Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. **Join our movement for a healthier world. One planet one health BY You.

**We offer**:
**A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. **We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.

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