HR Manager France

Job Description

At your side, everywhere in France, for over 100 years!

At Danone, growing up, you get a taste for it. This is why we are present in the daily lives of the French thanks to its 26 brands of tasty products to treat yourself while taking care of yourself and your loved ones.

With more than 8,000 Danoners spread across 13 production sites, 7 warehouses, 3 headquarters and an R&D center, Danone continually works on the elaboration and development of iconic products in your kitchens, supermarkets, restaurants, cafes or even for healthcare establishments and pharmacies. Certified Bcorp and Happy Trainees, Danone seeks not to be the best company in the world, but a better company for the world. We strive to offer the best to our consumers and our employees.

Do you want to join Danone’s HR teams, grow alongside us in a factory position, but you can’t find offers that don’t match your search?

This offer is made for you, apply now to anticipate our future needs!

Become a member of our talent pool for senior HR positions for potential future needs, and we will contact you as soon as an opportunity arises.

Our locations

Danone has 13 factories spread across France, each specializing in products with high added value for our consumers. We want to build a pool of senior HR managers for the following sites :

• Steenvoorde (North) : specialized and infant nutrition.
• Ferrières-en-Bray (Seine-Maritime) : Skyr, white cheeses and stirred yogurts.
• Saint-Just-Chaleyssin (Isère) : Creams, desserts and stirred yogurts (Danette).
• Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze) : infant nutrition (Blédina).
• Evian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie) : Evian natural mineral water.
• Volvic (Puy-de-Dôme) : Volvic natural mineral water.

These sites are at the heart of our industrial strategy and our commitment to quality, safety and reducing our environmental impact.

As Senior Factory Human Resources Manager, you will be a key player in the site Management Committee and guarantor of the local HR strategy.

Your main missions may include:

• Manage the site’s HR strategy in connection with business and industrial issues.
• Member of the Management Committee to co-construct the plant’s strategic plans.
• Support managers in their role as “1st HR” and “manager-coach”.
• Lead social dialogue and relations with staff representatives.
• Deploy organizational and technological transformation projects.
• Manage the local HR team.
• Manage skills management and training to support employability.
• Guarantee health, safety and quality of life at work.

Our employer commitments:

• The guarantee of a relevant, competitive and scalable remuneration package thanks to an external benchmark and internal fairness. It consists, among other things, of a fixed salary, an annual variable, an incentive and/or participation bonus as well as a company car.
• Continuous skills development thanks to the Danone Academy, hundreds of open access training courses and the cycle of development conversations.
• The possibility of using 3 days per year of volunteering via our Friday platform.
• Benefits for parenthood and caregivers with the possibility of converting part of their remuneration into time. In particular 14 more days of maternity/paternity leave.
• Other benefits such as mutual insurance, supplementary pension, CSE, etc

About you

The criteria below remain indicative. An application that presents a different combination of experiences and skills could also be considered.

• Holder of a bac+5 in Human Resources, you have between 8 and 15 years of experience in a position in this sector (depending on the size of the site)
• You have proven experience in general HR in an industrial environment with strong exposure to social relations and change management.
• You benefit from good communication skills and know how to support employees with kindness.
• You have a real team spirit and managing stakeholders holds no secrets for you.
• You are excited to join a mission-driven company.
• You are able to adapt quickly, propose ideas and contribute to cross-functional projects.