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MKT&SNU Performance and Governance Manager at Danone · Barcelona
Job Description
MKT&SNU Performance and Governance Manager
Short Intro and About the Job
At Danone, we believe that every time we eat or drink, we vote for the world we want. As a leading food and beverage company, we make healthy, sustainably produced foods and beverages that nourish people’s lives. As the largest Certified B Corporation® in the world, we are committed to redefining success in business to ensure that through our brands we create real benefits for people, our communities, and the planet.
In IT & Data, we inspire and empower Danone through the world of tech and data. Behind our brands there is always technology pushing them forward. Danone has broadcasted its willingness to become a Data driven and AI enabled company. That's why we use advanced and innovative IT solutions which are implemented in all Danone units around the world.
We are looking for catalyst for change. We ensure you work with great products and technologies in an international environment, learning from experts and experienced managers.
Role Purpose
Drive operational excellence, financial governance, and cross-team collaboration for Marketing & SNU by strengthening delivery routines, improving CAPEX/OPEX steering, securing business-critical commitments, and embedding a culture of continuous learning across IT teams and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Operational Excellence
- Strengthen standardized workflows, documentation practices, and data quality measures to improve the reliability of Marketing & SNU operations
- Track and communicate progress through quarterly KPIs covering CAPEX/OPEX financial steering, vendor operations, invoice management, GR completion, and operational pain-point resolution.
- Business Deliverables & Financial Performance
- Ensure reliable, timely, and insight-driven delivery of Marketing & SNU business commitments by improving financial accuracy, securing year-end landing, and enabling faster decision-making across stakeholders
- Maintain strong governance cadence across key portfolios, ensuring delivery stays within approved mandates.
- Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
- Facilitate team routines and operational governance coordination through knowledge-sharing sessions, playbook reviews, and cross-team workshops.
- Embed a culture of continuous learning across Marketing & SNU team and key business partners
About You
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in financial governance, including CAPEX/OPEX steering, budget tracking, forecasting, and year-end landing.
- Solid understanding of invoice management, GR processes, vendor follow-up, and financial control routines.
- Ability to build and maintain accurate dashboards and KPIs to monitor financial, operational, and delivery performance.
- Experience in portfolio governance across business-critical initiatives, ideally in Marketing, Digital, Data, SNU, or IT delivery environments.
- Strong capability to analyze risks, opportunities, and scenarios to support faster and better decision-making.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders across IT, business, finance, regional teams, D&A, architecture, and external partners.
- Experience driving adoption of new routines, governance models, or operating practices across distributed teams.
- Experience in continuous improvement, including root-cause analysis, corrective action plans, and process simplification or automation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex operational or financial topics into clear executive-level messages.
- Experience designing or supporting knowledge-sharing routines, playbooks, training content, or learning programs would be a plus.
Soft Skills
- Collaborative mindset
- Strong stakeholder management
- Structured communication
- Attention to detail, analytical thinking, ownership, and continuous improvement orientation
- Comfortable driving routines, facilitating alignment sessions, challenging constructively, and translating operational complexity into clear, actionable insights for leadership and cross-functional teams.
About Us, We offer and What's next
At Danone, you will work to make a vision a reality: “One Planet, One Health” and it doesn’t matter what position you are in to impact it. Here you will have space to create, to undertake, to grow and above all to be yourself, thanks to our culture of Inclusive Diversity, where we are clear that “our differences are what make the difference”. You will work with agile methodologies, in high performance teams where you will learn, influence and contribute to achieve specific objectives and thus grow with the company. We want you to come and see for yourself, but if you want more information before, click here to convince yourself: Careers at Danone | Danone
And what’s next?
If you have come this far you will have already convinced yourself... Apply!
"At Danone we are 100% committed to guaranteeing bias-free selection processes and equal opportunities. For this we have trained all the people who participate in them. Because to work with us, what matters to us is what you can contribute and nothing else"