Ice Cream Innovation Trainee (GRIT - GRaduate Industry Traineeship) [6-months]

NESTLE R&D CENTER (PTE) LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 20,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food and beverage company in Singapore is offering a traineeship with its R&D Ice Cream Unit. This role involves engaging in innovation projects, conducting market research, and gaining exposure to product development processes. Ideal candidates will have a degree in marketing or a related field. Opportunities for professional growth and learning within the company are included.

Qualifications

• Exposure to the end-to-end innovation process in R&D.
• Ideal candidates should have a background in marketing, business, or related fields.
• Understanding of project management and consumer research is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market research to understand ice cream landscape.
• Participate in innovation projects for new product development.
• Engage in stakeholder management and timeline organization.

Skills

Research skills

Understanding of consumer behavior

Project management

Education

Degree in marketing/business/innovation-related studies

Job description

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestlé career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestlé, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

R&D Ice Cream Unit

We are a small team of around 10 people, responsible for developing new ice cream products for markets out of Asia, North America and Latin America regions. The responsibilities for this R&D team comprise supporting markets and business units in front-end innovation work, product development and project management for launches, as well as technical support in sensory profiling and other engineering and manufacturing assistance.

Traineeship Description

The trainee will have an exposure to the end-to-end innovation process that the R&D Ice Cream unit undertakes.

Specific Responsibilities

1. Front-end Innovation

   Understanding the landscape of ice cream through research (desktop and in-field). This will include learning about the ice cream category, adjacent categories, as well as the market landscape that we operate in. There will also be in-field research to understand the ice cream category

   Exposure to consumer research to learn more about consumer behavior and attitudes towards ice cream, via social listening and specific consumer researches

   Organizing and participating in front-end innovation workshops, as well as related work such as crafting concepts and running concept tests

   Learning about ice cream by organizing and creating new online training modules for ice cream

2. Innovation Process towards Market Implementation

   Participating in projects where new innovations are developed in collaboration with markets

   Engaging in simple project management duties such as stakeholder engagement, timeline management

Qualifications

Degree or background in marketing/ business/ innovation-related studies or work experience would be ideal.

Eligibility Criteria

• a. Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs); and
• b. this includes male individuals who have completed National Service in CY2024 and CY2025.