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Netherlands
- Temporary Full-Time
- 6 months
- Posted: 9 Sep 2025
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About the job
Do you love to contribute with impact to decisions and execution on ingredients commodities and sustainable sourcing? Are you a proactive and analytical person who is eager to engage and lead with stakeholders? Do you thrive in dynamic and international environments and aspire to lead strategic initiatives? Then apply now and join us as our new Commodities & Sustainable Sourcing Buyer Intern in our Hoofddorp office starting January 2026!
In this internship, you will be part of the Global Ingredients Procurement Team, fully involved and have responsibilities within our Commodities team in charge of sourcing Sugar & Sweeteners, Cocoa & Chocolate, Coffee, Maltodextrin & Glucose. Your mission will be to support Sourcing Managers with your contribution to global projects on both Category Procurement and Sustainable Sourcing.
Food systems and global value chains need to be transformed to be fit for the future. Our team is leading on the implementation of the Danone Impact Journey strategy across Ingredients. Amongst numerous ambitious commitments, your role will involve implementing across our supply chain Deforestation Conversion Free sourcing, GHG reduction and sourcing transition to Regenerative Agriculture.
Your mission will extend beyond traditional procurement. You’ll play a vital role in advancing Danone’s ambitious Impact Journey strategy. Your role will involve key tasks that include sourcing project management, analyzing data, measuring and reporting progress, tendering, contributing to strategic and tactical decisions, leading or coordinating stakeholders, digitalize portfolios, market and price benchmarking.
Your main responsibilities include:
- Collect and analyze data from various sources (e.g. portfolios, market and price benchmarking), identify opportunities and risk, amongst other for sourcing development, efficiency, supply continuity, productivity;
- Present the conclusions and recommendations in a structured and effective way to stakeholders;
- Manage category and sustainable sourcing project from design to execution, lead and engage internal and external stakeholders, drive project planning and reporting;
- Co-lead and support global RFI/RFP/RFQ events, suppliers screening, e-sourcing;
- Support decision making by leading portfolio and sustainable sourcing digitalization with Power BI dashboards;
- Lead operational procurement activities such as contract lifecycle management, price-list, orders, vendors;
Meet your future manager!
Your manager will be Marius Donnet. Learn more about him: linkedin.com/in/marius-donnet
About you
As a Commodities and Sustainable Sourcing Intern, you are:
- Confident in data analysis and stakeholder management;
- Equipped with both analytical thinking and creativity to synthesize and communicate data;
- Skilled in Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI;
- Highly motivated and proactive, eager to engage and lead with stakeholders through solid communication skills.
- A self-starter, curious, and possess the ability to challenge situations, act with resilience and manage numerous workstreams of projects and initiatives.
- Always looking for opportunities to learn and develop.
There are also some compulsory requirements:
- Enrolled as a Bachelor’s/Master’s student in Management, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Economics, Sustainability, Engineering, Agronomy, Environmental Science or another related field during the whole internship period (if you are a non-EU citizen, you need to be enrolled at a Dutch university);
- Ideally available to start in January 2025 for a minimum of 6 months, 5 days per week;
- You are fluent in English - spoken and written;
- You are able to work from Hoofddorp, at least 2 times per week;
- Please note that you are required to relocate to the Netherlands (if abroad) for this internship and get a BSN.
About Danone
Working at Danone is a unique experience. It’s fast-paced and complex and, at times, it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities to learn and grow working with some of the best-known brands in the world, like Evian, Alpro, Nutricia, Activia and Nutrilon. Bring your unique perspective, ambitions and entrepreneurial ideas to the table – the impact you could make might just surprise you. One Planet. One Health – BY YOU.
We’re proud to be a B-Corp certified company. That means we meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability in everything we do.
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we base our hiring decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.*
We offer
In addition to gaining invaluable hands-on experience in end-to-end sourcing project management and contributing to Danone’s Impact Journey across Ingredients, we offer:
- A competitive gross internship allowance of 650 euros per month (based on a full-time internship);
- Home working allowance of 2.40 euros per day;
- A public transport travel card covering all office-related travel;
- Hybrid working environment allowing for desired flexibility;
- Career advice opportunities such as workshops, seminars, networking events;
- International environment with 140 different nationalities in Danone NL;
- Active Internship community with 100+ interns across the Netherlands.
* Please be aware that you must acquire a BSN number to receive the full internship allowance.
What's next:
It’s simple – hit the “apply” button before the application deadline of 22 September 2025. In order to comply with GDPR we can’t process your personal data without your given consent, so please apply directly via this website. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you.
Need more information? Please contact Dana Al Fakieh, Campus Recruitment Intern, via dana.al-fakieh@danone.com.
* all applications will be considered for a vacancy without discrimination based on ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, disability, or any other protected status.
