Internship (Quality & Food Safety): Scientific Affairs

Do you want to deepen your knowledge on food safety practices and contribute to Danone’s integral mission? Are you a strong communicator with a passion for the field of food sciences? Then apply now and join us as our new Scientific Affairs Intern in our Utrecht office starting March 2025!

In this internship, you will be part of the Scientific Affairs team, within our Central Quality & Food Safety (QFS) department. Our purpose is to provide guidance and application of quality and food safety policies at Danone. During this internship, you will collaborate with a variety of internal & external stakeholders and support with the expansion of Danone’s food safety knowledge within the scientific and regulatory domain.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Supporting the Scientific Affairs Leader to deliver scientific Briefing docs, Positions, Statements & Policies on key food safety topics
• Partake in the creation of quality & food safety internal communications
• Assisting in organization of events for the purpose of engagement with external parties to build food safety knowledge
• Coordinating business updates and management of Scientific Affairs data

Meet your future manager! Your manager will be Jossie Garthoff, Food Safety Scientific Affairs Leader

About you

• You are a Bachelor/Master student currently pursuing a degree in Food Safety, Toxicology, Food Science, Communication Sciences or a related field
• You have excellent scientific writing skills
• Interpersonal communication abilities
• You feel comfortable with event organization
• Highly analytical
• You can work autonomously and collaborate with others

As a FS Scientific Affairs Intern, interpreting and monitoring scientific evolutions within the food industry will be second nature to you. You can write scientific reports and have an eye for detail. On top of that? You’re a highly motivated scientific thinker who’s always looking for opportunities to learn and develop.

There are also some compulsory requirements:

• Enrolled as a Bachelors/Masters 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 from March 2025 onwards for a minimum of 6 months, 4-5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English - spoken and written; French is considered as a plus;
• You are able to work from our Utrecht office, at least 2-3 days per week;
• Please note that you are required to relocate to the Netherlands (if abroad) for this internship and get a BSN.

About Danone

About Us

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’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we base our hiring decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.*

We Offer

We offer a gross monthly internship allowance 650 euros per month and a home working allowance/contribution towards travel. Please do keep in mind that we do not offer relocation and/or accommodation benefits for students coming from abroad.

* Please be aware that you must acquire a BSN number to receive the full internship allowance.

In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. Across our 3 office hubs in Hoofddorp, Rijswijk and Utrecht this helps us create better opportunities for connection & synergies across our entities, teams, functions and categories.