R&D Packaging Design Excellence Internship - Taste The Future Program UK

Join the Packaging Premium Gifting and Innovation Team and help shape the future of chocolate packaging and elevate the consumer experience. This R&D Packaging Design Excellence Internship - Taste The Future Program UK offers a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of design, innovation, and food packaging. You'll contribute to early-stage packaging concepts for iconic brands, helping translate brand stories into premium, sustainable, and distinctive packaging experiences. You'll work closely with global and regional stakeholders to co-create ideas that feel elevated and meaningful.,

• Support design ideation, concept development, and packaging storytelling for premium chocolate experiences.
• Contribute to consumer-centric design thinking workshops and ideation sprints.
• Assist in visualizing packaging concepts through mood boards, sketching, mock-ups, and digital renderings.
• Conduct benchmarking of premium packaging in food, cosmetics, fashion, and other sectors.
• Explore new shapes, materials, textures, finishes, and structures to elevate perceived value and shelf impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Design Agencies, Product, and Consumer Science.
• Support creation of presentation materials for internal showcases and stakeholder alignment., We will be holding our final stage assessment center for this role in-person at our Bournville offices in November 2026 . Reasonable travel expenses will be covered.
  
  A creative, curious, and thoughtful mind who is excited about how packaging influences perception, emotion, and brand love. You are likely to have:
• Education: Background in Industrial/Product Design, Packaging Design, or related discipline .
• Creativity & Curiosity: You love to explore, ideate, and challenge the norm. You're not afraid to ask, "what if?"
• Visual Communication Skills: Ability to clearly express ideas through sketches, mock-ups, storyboards, and visual presentations - from rough concepts to polished proposals.
• Software Proficiency: Familiarity with 2D design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop), Esko ArtiosCAD, and 3Ddesign tools such as SolidWorks, Rhino, KeyShot, or similar.
• Consumer Focus: You think from the perspective of the consumer and are keen to design for emotion and delight.
• Collaborative Mindset: Comfortable working in diverse teams with marketers, engineers, designers, and suppliers.
• Agility: Able to manage multiple tasks, adapt quickly, and respond to feedback constructively.
  
  Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter. As an organization we are committed to developing the next generation of Makers and Bakers. Joining us at an early career stage in our fast paced and ever changing environment will enable you to do more, learn more and grow more. You will be encouraged to step outside your comfort zone- you may even surprise yourself! We will ensure you are given the support you need to be at your best and enable you to be yourself and bring passion and personality. Here you can lean in and speak up and bring your own flavor. Big enough to reach the top. Small enough to help you get off the ground. Are you studying towards a Degree in Industrial/Product Design, Packaging Design or related disciplines? Do you want a taste of the career you could have with Mondelez? Sink your teeth into one of our internships., This is one of our key global chocolate technical centres within our global Research & Development function. Teams work on a variety of chocolate-based discovery, development & deployment projects supporting our various markets around the world., For more details on our Early Careers schemes and advice on our application process, visit our careers site today - Early Careers - UK | Mondelēz International, Inc. (mondelezinternational.com) (https://www.mondelezinternational.com/United-Kingdom/Early-Careers/) We celebrate diversity, so if you require any adjustment to take part in our hiring process, let us know and we will work with you to help remove barriers and make the process accessible. You never have to disclose more than you're comfortable with - just tell us what you need. Please see the details on our dedicated D&I careers page (https://www.mondelezinternational.com/united-kingdom/diversity-inclusion/) ., At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about. We have a rich portfolio of strong brands - both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.

What you'll gain:
• Experience working on real-world innovation and packaging concept projects.
• Insight into Mondelez's creative development process in an international R&D setting.
• Mentoring and feedback from senior R&D packagingdevelopers and innovation leads.
• Opportunities to present and showcase your ideas across the business.
• A collaborative, inclusive, and consumer-obsessed culture.
Starting salary: £23,793 This position does not meet the minimum salary requirements for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Therefore, we are unable to consider applicants who require sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.