Cereals and Europe

 We are looking for the most promising candidates to enter the trainee program. Being an assertive self-motivated and, internationally mobile candidate, CSM offers a platform to launch your career in a pan-European business context. Our new trainee program will give you two years of real life work experience in a multinational, multicultural environment, during which you will have an assignment of 6 months abroad and 4 weeks of structured training modules with other graduates to develop your leadership and management skills. This is a perfect opportunity to get to know the industry at various locations and meet many different European colleagues who will help you to develop your career at CSM. If you are chosen to enter the trainee program you will be working for a CSM company driven by innovation and technology. CSM wants to keep offering successful products to its markets that satisfy customer and consumer needs. Therefore we need to create future business leaders and continue to develop a multicultural, international and multi-functional network of best in class people.

You will start off working at one of our Innovation Centers or Product Development Centers. If you have the ability and potential, you should achieve your first managerial post within 2-3 years. As you develop, you could move into a different discipline - this will depend on your skills, preferences, rate of development, and the available vacancies. You are responsible for your own career and will need to be driven and committed to your own development. Successful candidates will be creative and will achieve a deep technical knowledge of our business.

Candidate profile

You will start off working at one of our Innovation Centers or Product Development Centers. If you have the ability and potential, you should achieve your first managerial post within 2-3 years. As you develop, you could move into a different discipline - this will depend on your skills, preferences, rate of development, and the available vacancies. You are responsible for your own career and will need to be driven and committed to your own development. Successful candidates will be creative and will achieve a deep technical knowledge of our business.

Education

• Excellent degree (pref. MSc or PhD) in food technology, food chemistry or food science
• Good/excellent results in a major field of study
• Good/outstanding thesis and internship in the food industry, preferably in the bakery-, frozen food or food ingredients industries
• Special activities, like studying abroad for a term

Skills and competences

Fluent in English. Semi-fluency in a second (Western-European) language like French, German, Spanish or Italian would be desirable

• Analytical thinker; able to see through complex issues
• A systematic way of working (project management) or one that combines creativity with a pragmatic approach
• Good networking skills - capable of professional teamwork
• Problem solving attitude/innovative
• Multi-cultural awareness
• Practical, willing to ‘hands on' mentality
• Experienced PC user (database handling)

Other requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel frequently (20%-30%)
• Ability and willingness to relocate.

When you are ready to take on the next challenge, please send in your resumé and motivational letter to our HR department.

For more information, please contact our Human Resources Department at tel. +31 (0)20 590 6283 or via email at rian.ratgers@csmglobal.com.