Nature, Mission and Sustainability, MBA Intern

Heres an opportunity for you to align your personal mission of health and wellness with your day job! Interested to learn more? See below to gain a better understanding of what were looking for….

Why do we exist? The Mission and Sustainability (M&S) team develops and enables the implementation of all of Danone North Americas mission and sustainability efforts. To deliver on Danones mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we must connect several integrated impact efforts across:

Nature (e.g., regenerative agriculture, water, carbon, circularity, etc.)
• Health (e.g., nutrition, transparent and responsible marketing, positive impact of food on health, etc.)
• Communities (e.g., human rights, thriving communities, future skilling our value chain, etc.)

The M&S team provides strategic oversight, direction, and governance across these topics for Danone North America and ensures a deep collaboration with our Global Danone counterparts. We partner with multiple cross-functional internal stakeholders (e.g., procurement, sales, research and innovation, etc.) and external stakeholders to deliver on our strategy. The team is integrated into the heart of the business and sits within the Enterprise Strategy and Transformation Team (ES&T) in North America.

Danone has a deep partnership with B Lab. 70% of Danones global sales are now covered by B Corp certification, marking significant progress towards Danones ambition to become one of the first fully certified multinationals by 2025.

What do we do? The Mission and Sustainability team sets the umbrella strategy for all mission and sustainability related efforts, cascading our key priorities across Danone North America by working side-by-side with business leads to implement and measure progress.

DEVELOP STRATEGY AND BUSINESS CASE –

The M&S team partners with category teams and across the business to set the strategy and roadmap for impact priorities that will drive business results and societal impact. This means understanding current and future trends and mission-critical needs across the planet, our health, and our communities where Danone North America can make a difference. We use this strategic insight to prioritize commitments and programs that have the highest impact through deep analyses of costs, risks, ROI, feasibility, and tradeoffs.

PLAN, DO, AND REVIEW –

We collaborate with teams across Danone North America (e.g., procurement, sales, research and innovation, scientific affairs, HR, marketing, etc.) to develop and implement roadmaps for our impact programs. We identify short- and long-term milestones, resourcing plans, clear business ownership and accountability mechanisms. We also identify a simple and streamlined set of targets/goals, and actionable and measurable KPIs for tracking progress that are balanced to respond to both business and impact needs. We provide subject matter expertise and technical expertise to large-scale, cross-functional projects that often span research and innovation, sourcing, supply chain, etc. and a multitude of topics such as circularity, regenerative agriculture, healthy living, and affordability of and access to nutritious foods. We set up mechanisms to measure and report on our impact so that we can constantly refine our strategy and programs to deliver the highest impact. We stay in constant contact with our Global Sustainability Team to ensure that our work and impact “ladders up” to the broader mission and impact priorities of Danone.

What will you do?

The MBA Intern will support and own delivery of key Nature deliverables, which would likely include topics such as the below, based on needs of the team at the time:

• Develop rigorous quantitative modeling and qualitative problems solving to refine strategies and tactics for delivering on DNAs Nature pillar (levers, goals, KPIs) and implementation roadmaps (programs, roles/responsibilities, financials, measurement).
• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional senior stakeholders (e.g., Public Affairs, , Research and Innovation, Procurement, Brand teams, Analytics and Insights, etc.) to identify and co-create solutions and influence P&L and implementation roadmap
• Collaborate with M&S Director of Nature and other cross-functional leaders to ensure strategies and roadmaps are communicated, tracked, and updated across the business
• Assist in financial analysis, competitive analysis, pricing analysis and category analysis. Identifying key trends and brand implications.
• Lead research and case studies to inform deep understanding of key Nature topics (e.g., carbon accounting, innovative materials, circularity, regenerative agriculture practices) to improve strategy development and execution

Collaborate with M&S Director on Partnerships and Impact Measurement and other cross-functional leaders to ensure strategies and roadmaps are communicated, tracked, and updated across the business through a strategic review process