Position Snapshot

Location: Orbe, Switzerland
Act. Rate: Full-Time
Type of contract: Internship, 6 months
Start date: asap


Position Summary

At Nestlé Nutrition, our mission is to nurture a Healthier Generation. We aim to achieve this by leading the way in Research and Development of science proven nutrition solutions and by partnering with parents and healthcare professionals around the world. From pre-conception to adulthood, we are widening our reach and opening up new opportunities across the lifelong nutrition journey. Our high quality and sustainable solutions include ensuring access to affordable nutrition and addressing specific dietary requirements and nutritional deficiencies.

As a Product Development Innovation Intern, you will develop and characterize innovative products in the Cocoa-malt beverages (CMB) department. You will collaborate with project managers, ingredient and recipe experts, sensory and consumer teams and participate in several project activities, such as product development, prototyping, formulation with new ingredients, pilot line trials, etc.


We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.


A Day in the Life of a Product Development Innovation Intern

• Assist project managers and product developpers in designing new cocoa based products, designing &, planning experiments
• Coordinate/manage bench scale & pilot plant trials to be ready for industrialization
• Design new prototyps and innovative formulations as well as product concetps
• Consolidate and analyse data to make recommendations on next steps

What will make you successful

• Master Student or freshly graduated (or equivalent) in Food Science, engineering or Chemistry
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Highly adaptable, open minded, result focus combined with an innovative mindset
• Autonomy, collaborate effectively within a team
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Fluent in French and English

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.