Internship: Sustainability - Specialized Nutrition

Danone; Hoofddorp; Hybrid; EUR 6,600 - 7,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly stipend

Hybrid work environment

Public transport travel card

Job summary

Danone is offering a Sustainability Intern position in the Netherlands, focused on Specialized Nutrition. You will join a lean Sustainability team, support strategy development, and help embed sustainability across functions while collaborating with global and local teams.

The role involves data handling, reporting, and coordinating internal communications, with a requirement to start January 2027 for 6–9 months, in a hybrid Hoofddorp setup.

Qualifications

• Enrolled as a Bachelor’s or Master’s student during the whole internship period.
• Resident of the Netherlands with a valid BSN number (Dutch residency permit if non-EU).
• Non-EU citizens may need a 3-party internship agreement signed by the university.
• Available to start in January 2027 for 6–9 months, 5 days per week.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing sustainability strategies for Danone Specialized Nutrition through data gathering and competitor tracking.
• Animate internal sustainability communications across the globe via the network of local teams.
• Define and execute internal comms plan: quarterly newsletter, on-site events, upskilling programs, engagement plan.
• Support internal marketing and sales in embedding sustainability into action plans.
• Monitor sustainability insights and benchmarks to translate into actionable opportunities.

Skills

Communication

Data analysis

Project management

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's/Master's student in Business/Marketing

Tools

MS Office

Job description

As a Sustainability Intern: Sustainability - Specialized Nutrition at Danone Global Specialized Nutrition, you will have the chance to join an agile team driving sustainability transformation across the organization, dig into market dynamics and competitive intelligence, animate internal communication plans, work with business teams to embed sustainability in their strategy, and help the team on the day-to-day missions, interacting with many cross-functional teams within the company.

• Netherlands
• Hoofddorp
• Hybrid
• Temporary Full-Time
• 6 to 9 months

About the job

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
• Animate the deployment of sustainability communications across the globe, through our network of local teams
• Define and execute internal communication plan, consisting of a quarterly newsletter, on-site events, upskilling programs, everyday engagement plan, to spread Danone SN initiatives and actions across the organization
• Support internal marketing and sales teams in embedding sustainability into their action plans
• Monitor sustainability insights, benchmarks and initiatives to translate them into actionable opportunities

About you

We are looking for a Master student in Business, Marketing, or another equivalent field with a good understanding of business dynamics and a strong interest in Sustainability and Environmental Science, passionate about making business a force for good in the biggest B Corp of the world!

You have strong communication skills, at ease with data and project management, you are familiar 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 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);
• In the case of non-EU citizens, it is mandatory to provide a 3-party internship agreement signed by your university;
• Ideally available to start in January 2027 for a minimum of 6 months (preferably 8), 5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English- spoken and written;
• You are able to work from our Hoofddorp office, at least 2 days per week.

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.

In addition to gaining invaluable hands-on experience at a large multinational organization, 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;
• 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.