Marketing & Innovation Intern

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

Intern Marketing & Innovation

We are looking for an Intern Marketing & Innovation, with a big passion for analysing, organizing and biscuits. We offer you the opportunity to join our team and contribute to our mission to bring ‘Happiness with every bite’. The Intern Marketing & Innovation will be a part of the Western Europe and Emerging Markets Marketing team and will report to the Head of Commercialisation.

Your main responsibilities

• Maintaining samples registration tool (incoming & outgoing samples + stock at hand).
• Updating our portfolio to present to export markets and have visuals of which SKUs go to which country.
• Consolidating & updating portfolio overviews.
• Competition watch / tracking across our region NPD, comms etc.
• Supporting with social media landscaping & agency management.
• Rotational deep dive on market performance using external market data.
• Championing Digital Asset Management system use and upkeep.
• Supporting in cross-market market research test administration and execution.
• Collating inputs for cross-market best practice sharing / case studies.
• Support to find synergies on pack format / language clustering / pack size optimisation within region.
• Disclose market research archive; provide selection of key reports that show status of our brands and main consumer insights.
• Support in project administration.
• Maintain archive of delisted portfolio overview.

What do you bring?

• A proactive and self-driven individual with an entrepreneurial mindset, always seeking opportunities to drive growth and contribute to the company's success.
• Studying, or in the final phase of Bachelor / Master university or HBO in relevant field of study.
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, adapting quickly to changing priorities and leveraging creativity to overcome challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create compelling marketing content and present ideas persuasively.
• Energy and enthusiasm to support the ideation and development of new products, ensuring they meet consumer needs and align with brand positioning.

What we offer

We offer you a unique opportunity to work at a large international FMCG company with well-known Dutch & international brands. The company culture is informal, with a strong focus on teamwork and results. You will become part of an enthusiastic team and be in direct contact with various internal departments. In addition, you will quickly be given many responsibilities in the department, and you will be given a diverse range of tasks, focusing on your development. We offer an internship fee of €475 per month on a full-time basis.

Who are we?

Koninklijke Verkade, founded in 1886, with amazing brands like Verkade and Sultana, is part of pladis since 2016. pladis is one of the world's leading snacking companies. We are the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. A worldwide community with 16,000 colleagues around the world. Each of us bring our experience in happiness. Each of us is unique, but we find each other as a family of bakers and chocolatiers, hardworking, with pride and purpose. After all these years we believe that biscuits and chocolate bring people together. We are pladis. We bake Happiness. Happiness with every bite.

pladis colleagues care deeply about being the best. About winning, staying the course and never giving up. Whichever part of the world we’re in, whatever our role. Whether we’re baking, working in HR, finance, marketing or many other areas – we win as one pladis team. And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the code by which we live and work. We call it our ‘Winning Traits & Behaviours’: Purpose Led, Agile, Collaborative, Positive and Resilient. Five aspects of pladis life that define who we are, how we interact and get things done.

If you have questions, please reach out to Sanne Wolters, Head of Commercialisation, via sanne.wolters@pladisglobal.com