Internship: Sourcing – Fruit Upstream

Procurement Internship: Sourcing – Fruit Upstream

Are you eager to find out the day-to-day challenges of a buyer in a multinational corporation? Do you want to deep dive into one of the essential resources of Danone in an international and cross-functional environment? Apply now and join us as our next Sourcing Internship at our office in Hoofddorp, NL, starting August 2025.

You will be a valuable asset of the Global Procurement Ingredients team, and will support senior buyers with day-to-day business, within the category of Fruit Upstream. We offer you a great opportunity to look into one of the essential resources of Danone, to collaborate in a multicultural environment and to be a key part of the implementation of sourcing strategies. You will be fully involved and have real responsibilities within business processes, developing market intelligence, supporting on category strategy development, tendering, implementing contracts, and generating and supporting productivity and sustainability projects.

Business Process support

• Support the buyers in tendering fruits (setting up tenders, evaluating suppliers, negotiation, contracting,..)
  • Coordinate in implementing contracts to ensure high performance

Market Intelligence:

• Contribute to buyers on understanding the business needs of Danone per region in terms of fruits by taking a lead on building market intelligence reports of fruits and suppliers on regular basis for our stakeholders

Project Management

• Co-create and analyze business cases for productivity projects
• Coordinate with buyers in establishing and implementing sustainability projects

Meet your future manager!

Your manager will be Katharina Marbach, Fruit Upstream Buyer.

About you

• You are a Master’s/Bachelor’s student in Business, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain/Procurement or another relevant field. Previous work or internship experience is a plus
• Excellent with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Excel), SharePoint is a plus
• Strong analytical skills
• You are highly motivated, proactive & are a strong communicator
• You are eager to learn and thrive in a dynamic environment that continuously challenges you
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional and multi-cultural environment

There are also some compulsory requirements:

• Enrolled as a Masters/Bachelor’s student during the whole internship period (if you are a non-EU citizen, you need to be enrolled at a Dutch university);
• Ideally available to start in August/September 2025 for a minimum of 6 months, 5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English - oral and written;
• You are able to work from Hoofddorp location in Netherlands at least 2 times a week;
• Please note that you are required to already be based in the Netherlands (if abroad) for this internship and have a BSN number.

About Danone

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.

Need more information? Please contact Chris Katsaitis, Campus Recruiter Intern via chris.katsaitis@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.

Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition.