Do you love working in the food industry on food safety topics? Are quality of packaging and regulatory compliance important to you? Are you a strong communicator with a can-do mentality? Then apply now and join us as our new Global Packaging Specifications intern in our Utrecht, NL office starting February or March 2026!

Nutricia Research Centre for Specialized Nutrition, located in the Utrecht Science Park in the Netherlands is a state-of-the-art Life Science innovation center for the development of new product concepts for vulnerable consumers – infants, toddlers, elderly and patients. For Specialized Nutrition Research and Innovation (SN R&I) division we are looking for an Intern Global Packaging Specifications to join the team.

As Intern Global Packaging Specifications, you will work on the global specifications of the packaging material portfolio. You are responsible for ensuring full food safety and regulatory compliance with the packaging materials to achieve the highest quality standards of finished products for sensitive customers. Your role represents a unique opportunity to combine technical expertise and cross-functional cooperation within a challenging but inspiring category.

Central to this opportunity, your role is to cooperate closely with global packaging specifications managers and other internal stakeholders, including Packaging Development, other departments and stakeholders including R&I, Manufacturing, Quality and Purchasing. You will also foster close collaboration with packaging suppliers and external laboratories. To this end you will be a part of the Packaging Specifications Management team designed to enhance the highest levels of packaging quality and processes in a cross-functional environment.

Additional responsibilities will be:

• Participate in the specification upgrading process: Functional specification, new regulatory global requirements, food and quality safety risks anticipation
• Identify and implement opportunities for specification improvement, efficiency and complexity reduction

Meet your future manager! Your will be supervised by Svetlana Mijnen (Senior Specification Manager).

As Global Packaging Specifications intern, interest in the Food Safety element of packaging materials is second nature to you. You can work well in teams, have a growth-mindset, connect easily with an existing network and perform in cross-functional settings. You are competent in packaging technology and/or food safety, are analytical and structured. On top of that? You’re a positive person who’s always looking for opportunities to learn and develop.

Key requirements:

• Enrolled as a Bachelors/Masters student during the whole internship period;
• You are a resident of the Netherlands and hold a valid BSN number (if you are a non-EU citizen, you need to have a valid Dutch residency permit);
• Ideally available to start in February/March 2026 for a minimum of 6 months, 4-5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English - spoken and written;
• You are able to work from our Utrecht office, at least 2 days per week.

At Danone we are committed to our mission “bringing health, through food to as many people as possible”. Working together to make sure that our brands, like Hipro, Nutricia, Alpro, Activia, Nutrilon and Evian, create real benefits for people, communities and the planet. You will be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world. Being B Corp means to be part of a select movement of companies verified to be meeting the highest standards of social and environmental criteria and using business as a force for good. One Planet. One Health.

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;
• 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.

In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. You can work from one of our People Hubs in Hoofddorp, Utrecht and Rijswijk or you can work from home.

We put people at the center of everything we do. Bring your unique perspective, ambitions and ideas to the table – the impact you could make might surprise you. We are committed to embrace diversity, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA. 

What's next:

It’s simple – hit the “apply” button before the application deadline of 27th October 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 Eugenia Bouzas, Campus Talent Manager, via eugenia.bouzas@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.