Internship - Product Development Chef (HIVE)

Are you a student and interested in working at our Unilever Foods Innovation

Centre in Wageningen? Is your passion in packaging, processing or nutrition? Or

are you the next data science or formulation guru? Most importantly, are you

looking for an exciting internship? Join us at Hive!

HIVE is Unilever’s Foods Innovation Centre and home to the product innovations

of some of the world's favorite food brands like Knorr and Hellmann's. We offer

you a dynamic environment in which people with energy, creativity and passion

work together. There are good opportunities to pursue your professional and

personal goals and develop yourself on national and international level.

Want to get an idea of what’s cooking in the Hive? Go check more information here.

As an R&D Intern at Hive focusing on Culinary Product Development your key responsibilities & accountabilities could be (amongst others):

• Create culinary briefs of new products, based on business partner inputs, culinary insights,

cooking methods and habits;

• Provide input for generation of concepts, claims and selling stories;

• Support with culinary benchmarking, creative and approval sessions, in line with recipe approval process;

• Provide culinary guidance and practical support to product developers;

• …And many more interesting tasks & topics to give you the best possible learning experience!

What we offer:

• An internship allowance of €625,- gross per month; 

• A travel allowance if you don’t have a student travel card; 

• An exciting internship program with your fellow interns, such as an onboarding event and fun (virtual) activities;

• The possibility to develop your personal and business skills via our extensive range of training programmes;

• A flexible way of working;

• A unique opportunity to look behind the scenes of one of the largest FMCG companies in the World!

What we ask:

• You are available for 5 or 6 months from February - March 2025 (at least 32 hours a week);

• You must be enrolled as a (3rd or 4th year) Bachelor or Master student;

• A study food technology, food processing, product design, culinary chef et cetera;

• Or a food blogger or hotelmanagement student who is keen to make experience with international company with product development;

• You have a great passion for foods & you’re analytically strong;

• Fluent in Dutch & English; both oral and written.