Innovation Trainee

Singapore - Singapore

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Ice Cream Innovation Trainee (GRIT - GRaduate Industry Traineeship) 6-months

Roles & Responsibilities

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core we are a human environment passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out as long as you seek it. With Nestle you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals but also as people.

Ice Cream R&D Unit:

We are a small team of around 10 people responsible for developing new ice cream products for markets out of Asia North America and Latin America regions. The responsibilities for this R&D team comprises of supporting markets and business units in front-end innovation work product development and project management for launches as well as technical support in sensory profiling and other engineering and manufacturing assistance.

Traineeship Description:

The trainee will have an exposure to the end-to-end innovation process that the R&D Ice Cream unit undertakes.

Specific Responsibilities:

The job scope will include the following:

1) Front-end Innovation

- Understanding the landscape of ice cream through research (desktop and in-field). This will include learning about the ice cream category adjacent categories as well as the market landscape that we operate in. There will also be in-field research to understand the ice cream category

- Exposure to consumer research to learn more about consumer behavior and attitudes towards ice cream via social listening and specific consumer researches

- Organizing and participating in front-end innovation workshops as well as related work such as crafting concepts and running concept tests

- Learning about ice cream by organizing and creating new online training modules for ice cream

2) Innovation Process towards Market Implementation

- Participating in projects where new innovations are developed in collaboration with markets

- Engaging in simple project management duties such as stakeholder engagement timeline management

Male individuals who have completed National Service in CY2024 and CY2025 are also encouraged to apply.

Qualification:

Degree or background in marketing/ business/ innovation-related studies or work experience would be ideal.

Required Experience:

Intern

Ice Cream Innovation Trainee (GRIT - GRaduate Industry Traineeship) 6-monthsRoles & ResponsibilitiesJoining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core we are a human environment passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality o...