Sustainability Intern

Sustainability Internship at Danone Global Specialized Nutrition

About the job

As a Sustainability Intern 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.

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.

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
• Build and animate an 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 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.

Requirements:

• You are enrolled as a Master’s student during the entire internship period (if you are a non-EU citizen, you must be enrolled at a Dutch university);
• You are available as of Jan 2026 for 6 months minimum, 5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English (spoken and written);
• You are willing to commute min. 2 days a week to Hoofddorp, NL;
• Please note: You are required to relocate to the Netherlands (if currently abroad) for this internship and obtain a BSN (citizen service number).

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. One Planet. One Health – BY YOU.

We’re proud to be a B-Corp certified company. That means we meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability in everything we do.

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 our People Hub in Hoofddorp 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.

Need more information? Please contact Romina Caceres Quiroga, Campus Recruitment Intern, via romina.caceres-quiroga@danone.com.