Our Functions

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  Gulcan Dogru
  HR Manager, Nestlé Waters Erikli, Turkey

  “Working at Nestlé Waters for me is like living in a secure independent world that you are encouraged to express your talent. Joining the company was like a natural tendency coming from my childhood. The Nestlé name has always been synonymous for caring and best taste.
  Achieving “best quality” makes my job challenging. The service my team and I bring has to meet our internal customers' expectations every time. As an employee, all your ambitions and motivations,  for which you would not hesitate to apply, can met at Nestlé: being respected, valued and challenged to improve!

  And after having spent 8 years in the Group, I'm sure that there cannot be any job or working conditions in the world that come close to those we have at Nestlé. So, come and join us! »

  Human Resources

  Human Resources help drive high performance throughout Nestlé Waters by supporting and facilitating individuals, teams, and business processes.

  Our approach is to develop every employee to perform at their highest levels, linking company objectives and individuals’ career goals. We believe in the ingenuity and resourcefulness of our people, so we work to set the stage for employees to take the lead on their own development.  Employees and their managers work together to map out their own individualized development paths.  The goal is simply to find the links between individual capability and motivation and the objectives of the company.

  In the countries where we do business, Human Resources business partners play a key role in the organisation as they work alongside our leaders in the development and implementation of strategies and programs responding to the needs of our business and our people. They provide expertise and support to our leaders across a range of management decisions and processes.

  Human Resources also plays a vital role as advocates for the principles and culture of the Nestlé Group.  As our Human Resources managers define organisational structures and implement management processes, they reinforce the company’s  values across all our operations.
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  Ruben Del Re
  CFO, Eco de los Andes, Argentina

  “In Argentina, Nestlé Waters operates as a JV and two values that are essential between us and our partners are trust and respect. Of course, managing a partnership comes with additional challenges: cross-fertilization and double accountability. As CFO and co-pilot of a developing market, one of my main challenges is to translate data to business strategies (and vice versa), and reporting to shared value creation. But when you have a trustworthy environment with team members to make decisions, great challenges ahead, best-in-class tools to manage business, then you have a great chance of being very successful!”

  Finance

  Our Finance teams enjoy the excitement of working in a highly competitive market and supporting a truly global company. They belong to the Nestlé F&C community and they share its commonly recognized professional expertise and "savoir faire” . They are our business partners. They drive the long term strategy process and the monthly dynamic forecast process. They contribute to help us identify and seize opportunities, set aggressive goals and deliver them. They partner with the company’s top executive managers, provide an independent and objective global economic vision of the business, alert them of potential risks towards achieving the targets and propose corrective mitigation actions. They also contribute to improve process efficiency.
  On the corporate level, they deal with challenges that cross brands, businesses and geographical regions, contributing to the achievement of the company’s strategy and objectives.
  At the country level, our financial people operate in very diverse markets -from emerging countries to mature markets- and in varied business models -100% owned subsidiaries, joint ventures or integrated business units.
  Our finance people also work in a large variety of functions –industrial, sales, supply chain, etc.- and in different sales channels –modern and traditional trade, Out-Of-Home, Home & Office.

  As for our auditors, they assist the company’s executive managers around the world in the fulfillment of their responsibilities by serving as independent and objective assessors. They help improve operations and manage risk, working hand in hand with the executive teams.
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  Erik Lupke
  Technical Intellectual Property Manager – Nestlé Waters Product Technology Centre, Vittel, France

  “I thoroughly enjoy working with our creative inventors and partnering with them in all the innovative projects. It’s a fascinating and highly responsible mission to contribute to protecting our innovation and knowledge and developing strategies to ensure our company’s competitive advantage. I know that I can count on the open communication which exists within Nestlé and the personal commitment of all to help and support each other.”

  Research & Development

  Our R&D experts are one of the reasons behind our position as leader: they deliver a continuous stream of creativity, innovating and renovating products, processes and technologies with high sustainability and added value.
  Innovation has always been the vital engine of our growth. This is especially true for our brands and products, for which Nestlé Waters regularly introduces new varieties and formats to meet consumers’ changing needs.
  Recognized as some of the world’s best in the beverage sector, Nestlé Waters’ Research & Development teams bring new ideas to life. Most of these experts and researchers –nutritionists, hydro-geologists, biochemists, microbiologists, experts in PET plastics chemistry- are assembled at the company’s Product Technology Centre located in the East of France, close to the Vittel and Contrex bottled water factories.
  These specialists focus primarily, but not solely, on innovation. A large portion of our research and development is also devoted to renovating existing products and contributing to decreasing our carbon footprint throughout lightweight packaging.

  The company’s R&D leads research in many different areas: water-based beverages, packaging materials and their sustainability, optimisation of industrial processes, technical assistance, quality assurance, product safety, energy consumption, etc. In fact, our researchers and scientists have created some of the most significant innovations ever launched in the bottled water industry, like the ½ liter Eco-Shape bottle for North America, which is the lightest branded beverage bottle on the market.
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  Valentine Davy
  Water Process Engineering Group
  Nestlé Waters M. T. - PTC Water

  "Working as a water treatment engineer within Nestlé Waters, is a really exciting position. Through R&D projects, I have the opportunity to evaluate "state-of-the-art" water treatment technologies and to exchange with academis and external suppliers on innovative systems. Through technical assistance to markets, I assist factories in optimizing processes and solving water treatment trouble-shootings with the objective to provide continuously the best water quality."

  Technical operations & Water Resources

  Our technical teams based in over 100 factories worldwide play a key role in building our business, ensuring that the safety of people and products as well as environmental responsibility are absolute priorities. 

  Whether they run production lines or work in maintenance, sanitation, quality assurance or any other department, our technical specialists are constantly engaged in the ongoing quest to minimize the environmental impact of our company’s operations, studying and implementing ways of reducing energy and water consumption for product manufacturing.
  Our investments in production and performance are a substantial portion of our NPS and our employees’ commitment to our company’s success is demonstrated in the key role they have in optimising these investments while ensuring the safety of our people and the quality of our products.

  Water resources

  As the world’s leading bottled water company, Nestle Waters wants to serve as the model in the management of water resources, the raw material upon which our very existence is based. This means managing each spring for sustainability. Natural Resource Managers play a crucial role in this commitment. Experienced in geology and hydrogeology, these experts continually protect and monitor our springs (water quality, condition of the aquifer, wetlands, stream flows, aquatic life, etc.). They manage thousands of acres around our spring sources, providing watershed protection. They also work with third parties to encourage more environmentally-friendly farming practices and to promote conservation and access to water
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  Dave Hardie
  Channel Lead, Chain Foodservice
  Nestle Waters North America

  "The best thing about Nestlé Waters North America is the people. The company values the contribution of every individual regardless of title and position. This philosophy starts at the top. The culture at Nestlé Waters North America is one that assumes each person has accepted the responsibility to perform at the highest level with integrity and a sense of urgency to win in a competitive marketplace. It is an investment that allows for each individual to make efficient and effective decisions. The net impact is an organization that prides itself in producing results and despite the fact that we continue to grow, face challenges in the marketplace, adjust to customers and trends both good and bad, you still feel that your fingerprints are on this company.“

  Marketing & Sales

  Our Ambition? To be the world’s leading healthy hydration company!
  Our Mission? To elaborate and drive winning business strategies for our key categories, brands and customers worldwide and develop a strong innovation pipeline for our future growth!
  Our People?
  Do you want to be part of our success around the world and work with great brands like Nestlé Pure Life, Perrier, S.Pellegrino, Poland Springs, Erikli or Eco de los Andes...?
  Whether you are a University graduate, a specialized professional, or an experienced manager, you can have an exciting career in Marketing & Sales at Nestlé Waters! People who work in our Marketing & Sales teams around the world must have the ability to face challenges with courage and flexibility. We employ creative people who are focused on results, and have a passion for the pace and competitiveness of the terrain on which they operate. They must possess both specific technical skills and personal characteristics such as strategic and future-oriented thinkers and possess an entrepreneurial spirit but also be proactive within a team.
  Last, but certainly not least, we look for people with an international mindset and who wish to evolve in a multi-cultural environment where their adaptability to other cultures will take them over and beyond frontiers.
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  Paula Moral
  Supply Chain Manager, Nestlé Waters Italy

  “We do also want our success to last in time. This is why we put a lot of energy in finding solutions to lower as much as possible our impact on nature”

  Supply Chain Manager

  • Our mission is to be a preferred supplier for service reliability, agility and process innovation while optimizing all company resources and assets and

  • while having sustainability always at the centre of each our decision.

  An efficient supply chain relies on talented and passionate people with strong management skills and key competencies either demand and supply planning, transportation, warehousing, customer service, customer management and purchasing.