As a Sustainability Intern at Danone Global Specialized Nutrition, you will have the chance to join a recently appointed team driving sustainability transformation across the organization, dig into market dynamics, context data, competitive intelligence; animate internal communication plans, help the team on the day-to-day missions, and interact with many cross-functional teams within the company.

You will be part of the Sustainability team, a small and lean team connected to all the functions of the organization. You will be supervised and report to the Sustainability Transformation Director of the Specialized Nutrition Unit of Danone. You will interact with different departments and gain experience at a global scope in a multicultural company.

As the Sustainability Intern, your main tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Participate in the development of Danone Specialized Nutrition sustainability strategies through scouting of information, data consolidation, context understanding, competitors’ tracking
• Accumulate sustainability insights, benchmarks and initiatives into a summary to translate them into actionable opportunities
• Build a communication plan (engagement +  upskilling) to spread Danone SN initiatives and actions across the organization
• Support internal marketing and sales team in embedding sustainability into their action plans

Support the team in the building of a knowledge library on sustainability

We are looking for a Master student in Business or another equivalent field with a good understanding of business dynamics and a strong interest in Sustainability and Environmental Science. You have strong analytical and research skills, easy communication, you like digging into data and working with Excel and PowerPoint and your English is fluent (verbal and written). You are not afraid to proactively reach out to people when necessary and you are perfectly able to work in autonomy. You are curious, adaptable, reactive your professionalism is well known. You can also demonstrate your organizational and detail-orientation skills. Some creativity added to rigor is a plus.

There are also some compulsory requirements:

• Enrolled as a student 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, NL at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays).

Please note that you are required to relocate to the Netherlands (if abroad) for this internship and get a BSN.

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

We offer a gross monthly internship allowance 650 euros per month and a home working allowance/contribution towards travel. Please do keep in mind that we do not offer relocation and/or accommodation benefits for students coming from abroad.

* Please be aware that you must acquire a BSN number to receive the full internship allowance.

In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. Across our 3 office hubs in Hoofddorp, Rijswijk and Utrecht this helps us create better opportunities for connection & synergies across our entities, teams, functions and categories.

What’s Next

It’s simple – hit the “apply” button. 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.

For questions, please contact Eugenia Bouzas via eugenia.bouzas@danone.com

* all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status