Trainee Research Executive Internship

Would you like to work with the world’s top food and drink companies to help them develop amazing products? Are you looking for a varied, fast paced role which will enable you to be creative and analytical?

We are recruiting an ambitious intern to join MMR Research Worldwide for our Trainee Research Executive Internship. This opportunity will introduce you to the dynamic world of Sensory & Consumer Market Research. This position will begin in January 2025/February 2025 and will be based in our Amsterdam office in the Netherlands.

MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. We are industry leaders, guiding best in class innovation for our clients - partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands.

Our team of over 800 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We boast a true global reach with offices in Wallingford (near Oxford), London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Cali (Colombia), Bangkok, Durban and Amsterdam.

Trainee Research Executive’s Interns get the opportunity to work across a number of well-known international brands helping across all stages of the project cycle working within a dynamic, fast paced team environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Getting involved in proposal discussions (client calls and internal discussions), assisting with drafting elements of proposal
• Researching secondary data to provide commercial and category context for proposals and reports
• Helping brief fieldwork agencies for face to face research
• Designing the questionnaire against the client objectives
• Analysing the data (quantitatively) to reveal the story
• Helping create insightful and engaging client reports

Requirements

• You are available for 5 to 6 months from January/February 2025 (for at least 32 hours a week)
• You must be enrolled as a Bachelor or Master Student (University of Applied Sciences (HBO)/University (WO))
• Current student with EU nationality or enrolled at a Dutch education institute
• Enthusiastic with a can-do attitude
• Naturally curious
• Proactive and forward thinking
• Builds relationships easily
• Excel in working in a team environment, and relish the challenges that brings
• Possess great communication skills (including fluent written/spoken English)

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, as we well as a great range of benefits including:

• Full training across every level of the Market Research process
• Opportunity to work across a variety of leading products and brands
• Work within an international and dynamic team, with office located in central Amsterdam
• All travel expenses paid