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Intern Expert team Sensory & Consumer

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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Intern Expert team Sensory & Consumer

Are you eager to contribute to providing our customers and consumers the optimal product experience? Are you interested in learning how to get sensory input from a trained panel which allows to translate the consumer voice? And above all, are you curious to experience yourself the great products that FrieslandCampina produces? Then this internship position might be something for you!

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What we ask

  • HBO level; preferably food related
  • Good communication skills
  • Dutch and English speaking and reading
  • Independent thinking ability
  • Affinity with sensory science (is a pre)
  • Experience in statistics and data analysis (is an advantage)
  • Knowledge about the sensory software program EyeQuestion (is an advantage)
  • Show flexibility and creativity
  • Available from February until July, 5 days a week

What we offer

We offer an interesting and challenging internship position, providing you the opportunity to develop yourself in the sensory work field. You can count on sufficient professional supervision and a reasonable internship allowance.

Vacancy description

You will independently work on a specific assignment that will improve the quality of our expertise panels. (planning, test setup, panel group discussion, panel training, reporting)

Furthermore you will:

  • Apply sensory methods for the sensory expert panel
  • Build on methods that focus on the involvement of the panel in packaging development
  • Work with EyeQuestion (create, run & analyze sensory tests)
  • Assist in bigger projects, e.g. sensory landscape, preference mapping
  • Prepare and run sensory tests for expert panels
  • Assist panel leaders with group discussions and training

Team Details

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are.

We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.

The Global Sensory Development team leads and conducts valuable sensory and consumer research in a multi-disciplinary business environment, delivering excellent guidance to projects throughout the business. As part of this team you will support the development and improvement of new and existing products, as well as contribute to the constant improvement of our sensory and consumer best practices.

FrieslandCampina is a purpose driven company focused on winning in the global market for dairy based products. We want to be profitable, so we can make a positive, lasting impact. Not only does FrieslandCampina have iconic B2C brands, a big part of the business is in the B2B market, where we sell ingredients and semi-finished products to manufacturers of nutrition, the food industry and the pharmaceutical sector globally.

FMCG
Amersfoort
Active in 30 countries
20,000 employees
60% men - 40% women
Average age is 35 years

What employees are saying

Robin

Finance Trainee

Robin

“During my Traineeship I collaborated with the finance team of Nigeria to calculate the feasibility of setting up a cow breeding centre in West Africa. It is fantastic that FrieslandCampina strives for better nutrition for the world. I am proud to contribute to projects that achieve a better world.”

Suus

Supply Chain & Operations Trainee

Suus

"I like the construct of a cooperation between member farmers assuring the quality of the milk, and Frieslandcampina turning it into an endless scale of dairy products. I never knew that the extent of possibilities of dairy products was so broad, in so many industries!"