Menu Planning & Ingredients Intern

Join HelloFresh and Help Change the Way People Eat Forever

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.

We’re proud to share that HelloFresh Benelux has been recognized in the Mid-Large category on the Best Workplaces 2025 list, placing us in the top 10 after officially securing another year as a certified Great Place to Work! In addition, we are proud to announce that we have been ranked second on the list of Best Workplaces for Women in The Netherlands (Large Category) 🎉

🍋 This is how you’ll change the way people eat forever

For our ambitious and fast-growing Product Operations team in Amsterdam, we are looking for a Menu Planning & Ingredients Intern from September/October for 5 - 6 months.

During this internship, you will work across two teams: Menu Planning and Ingredients. This will give you a unique opportunity to learn everything about HelloFresh ingredients, the way we build menus, and be a key contributor for both teams.

“This role sits at the core of our business and directly affects the product our customers enjoy. In this impactful role, you will support with onboarding ingredients, adjust our weekly recipe offering to ad-hoc market circumstances, and help be in charge of our HelloFresh market operations.”
Charlotte, Ingredients team lead

🥑 This is how you’ll make an impact

• Shaping weekly menus with recipe and ingredient swaps based on feedback and ingredient availability, keeping them aligned with customer expectations.
• Breathing new life into recipes by testing new ingredients, re-cooking recipes, and ensuring every plate is top-notch.
• Diving into customer feedback to understand what people really think about our recipes and ingredients, and using those insights to improve our offering.
• Putting your sensory skills to work by evaluating new and improved ingredients.
• Running operations for HelloFresh Market (which covers all menu items beyond our recipes, such as snacks and fruit boxes). This includes ensuring ingredient availability, updating and setting prices, tracking stock levels and sold-outs, and calculating margins while benchmarking prices against competitors.
• Supporting the team with ad-hoc requests, from analyses to tastings.

🍉 These are the ingredients you’ll bring to the team

• You are currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from a relevant HBO/WO education, with a strong preference for a background in business or food (technology)
• Enthusiasm for food, data savvy, and a strong motivation for HelloFresh are key!
• You speak fluent English, and Dutch is a plus
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office & Google Sheets
• Energized by managing multiple tasks in a short period of time; proactive, detail-oriented, and focused on achieving strong results with a can-do mentality.
• You’re a self-starter, think before acting, and enjoy working with diverse people and teams.

Please note that HelloFresh is unable to sponsor visas for internships.

🥕 This is our recipe

• Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
• Lots of learning and development opportunities
• 10 holidays based on 40 hours per week for 6 months
• A hybrid work setup
• Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office
• A discount on your weekly HelloFresh, Green Chef and/or Factor_ subscriptions
• Our FreshEnergy program including bootcamp, Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events
• Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office
• Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via High Five Fitness Network
• And of course, you’ll get a compensation of 700 EUR gross per month, based on a 40-hour work week

About HelloFresh

We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!

At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.

We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.

HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at:

• Europe: EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com
• APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com
• United States: USCandidateAccommodations@hellofresh.com
• Canada: CAaccommodations@hellofresh.com