Digital & Data Project Manager (W/m)

**Company Description**
A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a 2,7 billion euro turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and more than 96 nationalities. On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.

To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.

**Lesaffre - Working together to better nourish and protect the planet.**

For over 30 years, Lesaffre has been involved in Human Health & Nutrition as part of its ambition to_ Better Nourish and Protect the Planet_.** In November 2018, Lesaffre acquired Gnosis Advanced Biotech and officially combined it with Lesaffre Human Care to form a new Business Unit named Gnosis by Lesaffre.**

**Gnosis by Lesaffre is the business unit dedicated to human health.**

At Gnosis by Lesaffre, we are committed to cultivating and to delivering nutritional actives, biotics, and nutritional yeasts that benefit human health and wellbeing, thanks to the power of microorganisms and biotransformation processes like fermentation. Put differently, we explore life to improve living.
Our vision: At Gnosis by Lesaffre, we strive for a world that moves better, digests better, ages better, feels better, and, ultimately, lives better thanks to microorganisms and fermentation.

Lesaffre’s **Digital & Data journey started some years’ ago with a strong push to encourage and cross-fertilize initiatives across the organization.** Business impact of some of these first actions (Sales efficiency tools, My Lesaffre App for Bakers, digitalization of key operations etc ) have confirmed the importance of accelerating this journey.

Digital & Data are to become **a fundamental transformative force for Lesaffre growth**. On one hand, as a lever to increase customer centricity and user experience. On the other, to bring operational excellence across the company.
To accelerate this journey, **a substantial additional effort is being put in place**. The recent **arrival of a Chief Digital & Data Officer (ExCom member)** has marked the beginning of this acceleration. With a more structured and results oriented journey, **CD&D officer impulses a strong digitalization dynamic within the group. Digital & data talent will be crucial to this transformative journey** both in the impact to business as well as the development of D&D capabilities.
In this context, Gnosis by Lesaffre recruits a**Digital & Data Project Manager** to support the ambitious plan which is being rolled out throughout the entire organization

The Digital & Data Project Manager will significantly participate in the newly launched Digital & Data Transformation journey. His/Her responsibilities will be linked to accelerating the main projects of the Digitalization plan.
He/She will work closely with the **Digital & Data key stakeholders within the BU, and the Digital & Data Department at the group level** and will have the following responsibilities:
**DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT DIGITAL & DATA PROJECTS / DIGITAL PRODUCTS, TOOLS&TECHNOLOGIES**
- Participate in developing a **Digital & Data Transformation Program** that brings value to the business, drives changes, and transforms the organization. This covers different areas such as Customer Experience, Research & Development, Operations and Support functions.
- Lead and coordinate the projects and digital product lifecycle, from design to delivery and upgrades (For Instance: DAM, PIM, CRM, Client Portal, Data, Gen AI,).
- Support the concretization of the strategy by **piloting, supporting and/or challenging businesses in the development and implementation of the projects and digital products**:

- Attends and leads weekly operational committee meetings.
- Leads, gathers, supports, and challenges business stakeholders in the design and evaluation of concrete projects.
- Drives concrete pilot/projects and products (tools) and/or participates in key workshops to support, challenge, and speed transformation.
- Supports the definition of technical roadmap and its execution for the implementation of projects.
- Identifies significant roadblocks to transformation; communicates, enables, or proposes solutions.
- Organize and contribute to the end-to-end functional acceptance test
and ensure its validation with the business lines.
- Report anomalies to the teams, ensure corrections, write and obtain validation of the acceptance report by the business lines.
- Accelerate the maturity of Digital & Data at BU Level, elevating our ability to monitor and deliver operational excellence.
- Participate in designing new processes integrating dig