The Funds have financed now about 100 projects and have supported 63 000 people and created more than 5000 jobs. It has been a laboratory on social innovation, implementing new business models. Bringing project to sustainability and scale.
Over the years the team of the Fund has developed recognized expertise in inclusive business models, societal innovation, co-creation and stakeholder's engagement and management, as well as complex project management.
The Ecosystem Fund team is part of the Sustainability team of Groupe Danone.
You will :
- Lead an inclusive projects portfolio in the Asia zone: from the project case elaboration, through its different maturity stages and until its hand over.
- Ensure that the projects deliver their objectives for the Business units as well as their impact for the communities and on the environment and health
- Animate and coach a network of internal and external project managers and ensure best in class relationship with leading social organizations & institutions.
- Develop network of Co-financers to help Project teams raising funds from various sources (Institutions, Non Governmental organizations, Development Banks, etc), and Innovative solutions (Start Up incubators) leveraging Data at the service of Sustainability.
- Build knowledge and ensure dissemination through collective intelligence.
- Contribute to transversal topics and new type of business models with the Ecosysteme central team on specific Global Challenges such as Inclusive recycling (how to increase waste collection through waste pickers empowerment?), or Regenerative Agriculture (how to best support farmers to transition to Regenerative Agriculture), etc.
- be guardian of the Fund's mission and impact on General Interest.
- Managing inclusive projects portfolio around sourcing, inclusive recycling, watershed protection and health topics
- Interacting with other Danone functions (Cycle & Procurement, Sustainability, Marketing, Finance, General secretary teams) to support Danone Ecosystem mission and ambition.
- Ensuring the coaching of the projects, co-creation with the partners and representing the fund at the steering committees with Danone and GM partners.
- Ensuring the impact of the project on the business through the achievement of the business objectives, its communication and connection to the brands
- Ensuring the impact of the projects on the communities and environment.
- Animating network community around 1 specific stream (ex.: Inclusive Recycling where Asia is relatively advanced within Ecosystem projects)
- Capturing and formalizing knowledge on inclusive business model and creating the proper tools/platforms to disseminate it
- Translating social, economic and environmental impacts into shared value impact for the projects' stakeholders
- Contribute to the group events and communication
- Min 5 years of relevant working experience in project management
- Experience in food industry with exposure to upstream value chain and/or operations
- Strong operational background
- Knowledge in agriculture and/or circular economy
- Organization skills and rigor + Flexibility/adaptability
- Communication and listening skills
- Relationship and mediation capabilities
- Constructive mindset and openness
- Leadership skills
- Fluent in Bahasa and English (French is a plus)
- Ability to travel within Indonesia and ASPAC (50%) and to Europe at least once a year
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