VIE 12 months - Global BAW Program Coordinator - Barcelone - February 1, 2027 - M/W

Danone; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 15,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

2.5 paid leave days per month

Job summary

Danone in Barcelona hosts a VIE within the Battle Against Waste (BAW) Team. You will support the Program Lead to drive the international program, coordinate with regions and factories, prepare workshops, share best practices, and improve tools and methodologies.

Your role strengthens collaboration and standardization across countries. You will lead BAW leaders, redesign the self-assessment tool, drive community engagement, and standardize BAW documentation while reviewing and modernizing

Qualifications

• Strong analytical mindset with ability to work with loss data and translate insights.
• Ability to collaborate with global, regional and factory teams.
• Experience adapting to international, dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and engage the BAW Leaders community.
• Redesign and continuously improve the BAW Self-Assessment tool.
• Drive the BAW community and engage across regions and sites.
• Structure and standardize BAW documentation.
• Review and modernize BAW best practices and methodologies.
• Create and deploy a Best Practices Tracker for global use.

Skills

Data-Centric

Collaboration

Flexibility

Proactive

Attention to Detail

Digital & MS Tools

Communication & Community Engagement

Language Skills

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Outlook

Power BI

Job description

About The Job

For our Supply Chain division in Barcelone, we are looking for a VIE for our Battle Against Waste (BAW) Team.

You will support the Battle Against Waste Program Lead in driving the program internationally, coordinating with regions and factories, preparing workshops, sharing best practices, and continuously improving tools and methodologies. You will therefore contribute to strengthening collaboration and standardization across countries.

Your Role

• Lead and engage the community of BAW Leaders


• Redesign and continuously improve the BAW Self-Assessment tool


• Drive the BAW community and foster engagement across regions and factories


• Structure and standardize BAW documentation


• Review and modernize existing BAW best practices and methodologies


• Create and deploy a Best Practices Tracker to capture, share, and monitor best practices across Danone sites worldwide

About You

To be able to achieve the above and be successful in this role, we believe you need to have:

Data-Centric

Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to work with manufacturing loss data, identify trends and opportunities, ensure data accuracy, and translate analysis into actionable insights for BAW.

Collaboration & Teamwork

Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with Global, Regional and Factory teams, supporting BAW initiatives, workshops and continuous improvement activities.

Flexibility & Adaptability

Ability to adapt to different factory environments, priorities and maturity levels, while working effectively in a dynamic and international environment.

Proactive & Improvement-Oriented

Self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to identify improvement opportunities, propose solutions and drive actions forward with the relevant stakeholders.

Attention to Detail

Strong attention to detail, ensuring consistency and quality across loss assessments, best practices, documentation, trackers and BAW tools.

Digital & MS Tools

Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Outlook, with the ability to structure and simplify information effectively. Power BI knowledge is a strong plus, particularly for loss monitoring and performance visualization.

Communication & Community Engagement

Ability to communicate clearly, structure information and support the animation of the global BAW community, including preparation of workshops, best-practice sharing and capability-building activities.

Language Skills

High level of proficiency in English is required, given the global scope of the role. French is a plus.

Are You Eligible for a V.I.E.?

The V.I.E. (International Corporate Volunteer Program) is a scheme managed by Business France that enables European citizens to work internationally on behalf of a company. The contract duration ranges from 6 to 24 months.

To be eligible, you must:

• Be between 18 and 28 years old.


• Have fulfilled your national service obligations (where applicable).


• Be a citizen of a country within the European Economic Area (EEA).

What Are the Contractual Benefits of a V.I.E.?

• Business France manages all administrative aspects of the volunteer's contract.


• Business France also provides comprehensive social coverage, including health insurance, maternity, disability, and workplace accident coverage.


• No income tax or social security contributions are deducted from the allowance. However, the V.I.E. program does not provide unemployment benefits or pension contributions.


• You are entitled to 2.5 days of paid leave per month.


• Your monthly allowance is determined according to the compensation scale established by Business France.

About Us

As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104000 employees work on all five continents in the three Danone business areas Essential Dairy & Plant-Based, Specialized Nutrition and Water on one corporate mission: \"Bringing health through food to as many people as possible\".

We want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power peoplehave toimpact the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food and healthy food needs a healthy planet: this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

Do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you.

Working here you’ll 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 and 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 OneHealth BYYOU.