Are you passionate about outstanding quality and safety of products? Do you want to gain experience in a multinational company while securing brands and consumers? Then apply now and join us as Quality & Food Safety Intern in November 2025, making part of our Quality & Food Safety team in Rijswijk, NL.

As our Quality and Food Safety Intern, you will be part of the Quality and Food Safety (QFS) team, who is End to End responsible in ensuring that effective QFS standards are in place and maintained to ensure excellence in execution throughout our value chain. The team safeguards & monitors the quality, safety and integrity of the products of the Nutricia Worldwide business unit by providing support and advice. Our ambition is to; Excel in Quality & Food Safety everywhere, everyday”. To achieve this, we rely on a wide variety of standards, procedures, and processes. As our intern, you will help us designing and implementing these standards in the daily operations.

You will be responsible for

• Assessing current procedures;
• Consulting stakeholders;
• Identifying gaps and options for improvements;
• Optimizing ways of working within the local and global Danone environment.

Meet your future manager!

Your manager will be Ariel Zhang, Quality and Food Safety Manager. Learn more about her: Ariel C. Zhang | LinkedIn 

You are a Master’s student in Food Quality Management, Food Safety, or another related backgrounds with affinity for Quality & Food Safety Management System. You are self-motivated and proactive person and you possess a good sense of ownership to bring the task to a successful completion. You present critical thinking and you are well-organized and independent. We expect you to be fluent in English (written and spoken). Additional language as Spanish or Russian is considered a plus. 

Key requirements:

• Enrolled as a Bachelor's or 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 November 2025 for a minimum of 6 months, 4-5 days per week.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written); proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
• Able to work from our Rijswijk office at least 1 day 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 8th 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.