Danone is a leading global food and beverage company operating in three health-focused, fast-growing, and on-trend Categories: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition.

With a long-standing mission of bringing health through food to as many people as possible, Danone aims to inspire healthier and more sustainable eating and drinking practices while committing to achieve measurable nutritional, social, societal, and environment impact.

Danone has defined its “Renew” strategy to restore growth, competitiveness, and value creation for the long-term. With almost 90,000 employees, and products sold in over 120 markets, Danone generated €27.6 billion in sales in 2023. Danone’s portfolio includes leading international brands (Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Aptamil, Danette, Danio, Danonino, evian, Nutricia, Nutrilon, and Volvic, among others) as well as strong local and regional brands (including AQUA, Blédina, Bonafont, Cow & Gate, Mizone, Oikos and Silk).

Listed on Euronext Paris and present on the OTCQX platform via an ADR (American Depositary Receipt) program, Danone is a component stock of leading sustainability indexes including the ones managed by Moody’s and Sustainalytics, as well as MSCI ESG Indexes, FTSE4Good Index Series, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, and Access to Nutrition Index. Danone’s ambition is to be B CorpTM certified at a global level in 2025.

Key responsibilities:

Collaborate with the Director responsible for the Beverages BU by supporting the creation and execution of customer plans with high integrity.

Build strong and reliable relationships with internal stakeholders to meet the needs of the business in a timely manner.

Monitor and suggest actions to improve the business through reporting

Manage new item set-up and maintain item catalogues in Walmart’s internal systems

Support the team (customer planning and customer team) in developing the annual sales plan/budget, category strategy, and distribution plan.

Participate with sales team and internal teams on multi-year business planning process to inform customer plan

Provide ad-hoc reports and presentations for sales leadership (e.g., visits from corporate Danone, in-market reviews, etc.)

Provide insights to Category Commercial and other cross-functional teams to create clear, cohesive business growth strategy

Build and maintain strong Danone culture and strive to demonstrate Danone’s Leadership Behaviors in your role.

4-year bachelor’s degree

1-3 years of experience within CPG industry

Living in NWA with the ability to be in the Rogers’ office multiple times a week is required

Exposure to other sales sub-functions (category management, shopper marketing, retail, etc.) preferred