Internship (Sales/Marketing): Commercial Excellence

Sales Internship (Sales/Marketing): Commercial Excellence

About the job

In Nutricia we have been pioneering nutritional solutions since 1896, when our founders first began their early support of mothers and their infants. Since then, our nutritional solutions have transformed the lives of millions of people around the world. That pioneering spirit lives on today with an ongoing commitment to provide life-transforming nutrition at key moments throughout.

Nutricia Worldwide is one of the most dynamic and international divisions within Danone, operating in 45 countries with 65 business partners (distributors) together with the power of our team from 35 different nationalities. We are a growing profitable business that is truly diverse and unique.

You will be part of the Commercial Excellence team, where you will actively engage in driving Commercial Excellence projects and driving Internal Communication.

As Commercial Excellence Intern your focus will be on:

Market Share Analysis – NUMETRIX – Internal Tool to monitor market share

• Support the development of advanced dashboards to track market share across regions.
• Work with integrated data sets (e.g. Numeric and Weighted Distribution) to enhance visibility into channel and manufacturer performance.
• Contribute to analytical tools that drive strategic decision-making.

Excellence in Execution

• Assist in launch of cross-market execution programme- PUMA focused on in-store excellence.
• Help track KPIs, support POS clustering, and contribute to team capability building.
• Collaborate with local teams to bring the Nutricia Flagship Store vision to life.

Business Performance Monitoring

• Building a harmonized sell-out reporting framework & generation actionable insights
• Building tools & dashboard in Power BI that support strategic planning and performance tracking.

Supporting Regional Projects

• Support in collecting Sales /Market Info./Pricing and delivering Analytical Dashboard
• Coordinator with regional teams /DBTR/ Vendors and monitor Projects
• New Country Launch Preparation - NUTRIEXPERT / NUMETRIX

Strengthening communication

• Engage our sales team and distributor partners through effective and timely communication on Nutricia Worldwide Award (NWA)
• Prepare and design the monthly communication to engage our distributor partners in “Partner of the Year” (POY)
• Prepare, coordinate and review communication materials
• Work with agencies to articulate communication needs

About you

You are enrolled as a student in economics, business management, marketing, or a related field. You are proactive in reaching out to your colleagues for their input and/or help when necessary. For you, accuracy and analytical skills are part of your interest and capability. Furthermore, you genuinely enjoy working with people, have good interpersonal and communication skills, convey messages clearly, convincingly and effectively. Lastly, you have a strong interest and curiosity in Commercial Excellence, are a fluent communicator and open to expressing ideas and your opinion.

Key requirements:

• Enrolled as a Bachelor's or Master's student for the entire duration of the internship.
• Resident of the Netherlands with a valid BSN number. Non-EU citizens must have a valid Dutch residency permit.
• For non-EU citizens, your university must sign a three-party agreement with Danone.
• Available to start in September/October 2025 for a minimum of 6 months, 5 days per week.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written); proficiency in Russian or Spanish is a BIG plus.
• Able to work from our Rijswijk office at least 2-3 days per week.

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 Eugenia Bouzas, Campus Talent Manager, via eugenia.bouzas@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.

Get to know us

We are committed to delivering better health through better nutrition for millions of consumers and patients in our communities. Our Danoners are steering us to a more sustainable future, helping to make the world healthier. Want to be one of them?