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Netherlands
- Temporary Full-Time
- 6 months
- Posted: 6 Feb 2026
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About the job
Are you passionate about user experience, consumer insights, and turning complex data into compelling stories?
Do you want to help shape evidence‑based product claims and demos used by millions of parents and healthcare professionals worldwide? Join Danone’s Specialized Nutrition User eXperience (UX) team and help us build the next generation of impactful claims.
As our UX Claims Research Intern, you will join the global User eXperience team at the Danone Nutricia Research & Innovation Center in Utrecht. You will support the development of our Claims & Demos capability, helping evaluate, refine, and substantiate product claims that drive consumer trust and trial intent.
You will collaborate with UX researchers, sensory experts, marketing, regulatory, and external agencies to support a new, data‑driven approach to claim validation—directly contributing to future product launches and communication strategies across key global brands like Aptamil, Bebilon, and Almiron.
This internship is ideal for someone who enjoys blending analytical thinking, creativity, and user‑centric design.
Your responsibilities in a nutshell:
1. Claims Evaluation & Documentation
Assist in reviewing and synthesizing claim performance data.
Help prepare presentations, summaries, and insights to support internal decision‑making.
Document findings clearly to support cross‑functional teams.
2. Research Support
Assist in user research including rapid online testing, consumer claim scoring, and user feedback synthesis.
Help identify claim strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
Contribute to analyses that link claims to consumer liking and trial intent.
3. Strategic Collaboration
Work closely with UX, marketing, regulatory, and insights teams to shape claim strategy.
Participate in defining criteria for meaningful, differentiating, and persuasive claims.
Support the evaluation of potential agency partners and external best practices.
About you
You are a master student with knowledge in sensory, statistics, linguistics and/or food science. You are passionate about health & nutrition. You have a strong interest in user experience design, claims evaluation, or related fields. Basic knowledge of user research methodologies and design principles would be a bonus. You also must be considered a creative mind.
You have strong communication skills, and you are an enthusiast creative but organized person. Comfortable in an international, multidisciplinary environment, you can demonstrate autonomy, proactivity, and curiosity behaviors.
Key requirements:
- Enrolled as a Master's student for the entire duration of the internship.
- Resident of the Netherlands with a valid BSN number. Non-EU citizens must have a valid Dutch residency permit.
- For non-EU citizens, your university must sign a three-party agreement with Danone.
- Available to start in March/April 2026 for a minimum of 6 months, 4-5 days per week.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).
- Able to work from our Utrecht office at least 2-3 days per week.
About Danone
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 2.45 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 19th February. 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.
- Danone.com