Quality Intern

Short Intro and About the Job

Ever thought of doing an internship at Danone? Join us and challenge yourself in Quality!

QUALITY TRAINEE – INTERNSHIP/STAGE

For our Quality Team in Milan we are looking as of now for a Quality Trainee.

During your internship, you’ll be part of a dynamic team, and you will have visibility into all the company’s departments, and’ll contribute to the achievements of your team.

About the job

You’ll be part of the Quality Team, and you will support the Superiority Project in order to guarantee and enhance the quality standard of our products. You will collaborate daily with a wide range of stakeholders, including internal teams such as Marketing, Sales, and Logistics & Supply Chain, as well as external partners like Customers and the EU Quality & Food Safety organization.

You’ll report to the Quality Manager.

In detail, you’ll be involved in:

• KPI Management: Update monthly quality scorecard KPIs and maintain dashboards for Quality & Food Safety indicators.
• Consumer Complaints: Manage consumer complaints, monitor potential repetition, and ensure timely escalation to EU category leaders.
• Store Check Activities: Organize and manage store check sessions to ensure compliance and quality standards and mitigate action follow-up.
• Customer Requests: Support the management of customer-specific quality requirements.
• Culture of Quality: Contribute to the animation and implementation of the Culture of Quality program.
• Non-conformities Tracking: Monitor and follow up on quality deviations from market to warehouse receptions.
• Logistics & Supply Chain Support: Assist in activities related to logistics and supply chain operations related to Quality & Food Safety.
• Quality and Food Safety certification support: Provide support for Quality and Food Safety certification processes, including documentation and audit preparation.

About You

About you

To be able to achieve the above and be successful in this role, we believe you need to have:

• Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Nutrition;
• Analytical mindset with curiosity to understand and deep dive
• Willing to collaborate in an international environment
• Proactive attitude to learn and grow
• Problem-solving and entrepreneurial thinking;
• Relational skills and flexibility;
• Fluent in English; Italian,
• Knowledge of data visualization or quality management tools (e.g., SAP, Power BI) is considered a plus

About Us, We offer and What's next

About us 

As a world-leading food company, DANONE stands for international success. Around 104000 employees work on all five continents in the three Danone business areas: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based, Specialized Nutrition and Water with one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible”. 

We want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have to impact the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food and healthy food needs a healthy planet: this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies. 

Do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you. 

Working here you’ll need to enjoy a fast-pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.   

Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet One Health BY YOU. 

We offer 

We believe in a “Phygital” workplace.

Physical because our offices are centrally located and easily reached by public transportation. Free water, yogurt and fruits are of course benefits for our employees.

Digital as we work for objectives, without time or space constraints, in a responsible, autonomous and flexible way that helps to reconcile life and work times, improving productivity and focusing on results.

We offer you a culture where you’ll be welcome to bring in ideas and take initiative. You’ll learn from colleagues who are highly committed and passionate about what they do. We believe in learning something new each day as it means you keep growing every day! 

We believe everyone has talent, something which comes natural to you. Your uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energizes you. 

In Italy we are Certified Great Place to Work and B Corp.

Inclusive Diversity

Danone is committed to create and live an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities & as individuals. Valuing diversity is recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society. 

We commit to foster an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives and sexual orientation. 

We believe that our differences will make the difference 

What’s next? 

Willing to start your meaningful journey? Hit the apply bottom! 

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