Are you ready for a new step in your career?

Mead Johnson Nutrition is a long-standing multinational brand specializing in infant and child nutrition. Our company vision is to become the world's leading provider of scientifically backed child nutrition and specialized food products and services. At Mead Johnson Nutrition, we are deeply committed to creating nutritional brands and products that give babies and children the best start in life. With over 450 employees, our Nijmegen factory produces super-premium child nutrition for the largest market in the world, Greater China. Quality, reliability, innovation, and ethics are core values at Mead Johnson.

The goal of this internship is to develop and conduct sensory trainings for the expert taste and odour panel of Mead Johnson. Expert panellists should be trained on different topics, such as on raw materials and on detecting off-flavours. In this way, panellists will become more familiar with Mead Johnson products; infant and children formula and specialized nutrition. You will analyze these sensory results to improve our products and to improve the performance of the panel. During this internship, you will also help with regular sensory sessions. This internship will help to improve our expert sensory
panel, which ultimately enhances the consumer experience of our products.

What will you do?

• Prepare sensory trainings for the expert panel (with the help of literature)
• Conduct sensory trainings for the expert panel.
• Help with the preparations for regular sensory sessions.
• Analyse sensory results and give recommendations based on these results.
• Work in multi-disciplinary teams with product developers, lab technicians and other
  disciplines.

Who are you?

• Enrolled as a student (University of Applied Science (HBO)/ University Master    (WO)) in the study Food Science, Food Technology, Dairy or Chemical Science.
• A proactive and independent student.
• Good at organizing/planning of your tasks.
• Experience with lab work.
• Able to work in teams with different levels and functions of organization across diverse
  cultures.
• Professional working proficiency in English (both oral and written), as this is our business
  language

What do we offer?

An inspiring and innovative working environment where you can develop your knowledge and sharpen your skills in a motivated, sociable, dedicated, young and professional team. An 5-6 month full-time internship (in consultation), starting february of 2025 with an internship allowance between 450-500 euros, depending on your degrees.

Please send your CV and motivation letter (or questions about the position) to Elsemieke Jonker:
Elsemieke.Jonker@mjngc.com.