Benefits & Perks
We are a people-inspired company. People are at the heart of everything we do. We look to promote a healthy lifestyle inside and outside work.
Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: for ourselves, for others, for diversity and for the future. Our ways of working and flexible environment allow us to adapt to the ever-changing world. Promoting an inclusive environment helps us bring our purpose and values to life every day.
Work Life Balance
Workplace
Health Framework
Protection of Parenthood
Our global Maternity Protection Policy (pdf, 1 Mb) is one of the most progressive programmes of its kind in the industry. It includes maternity protection for all primary caregivers of newborns, including fathers and adoptive parents. This means at least 14 weeks’ paid maternity leave and the right to extend leave up to 6 months. The policy covers employment protection and non-discrimination, a healthy and breastfeeding-friendly work environment, and flexible work arrangements.
In addition to 6 months’ maternity leave, flexitime and breastfeeding breaks, we’ve provided over 302 breastfeeding sites in our workplaces around the world. By 2018, we’ll have equipped all offices and sites of more.
Dual Careers
Dual careers are increasingly becoming the family working norm. They could be local or expatriate, and they may have to make compromises from time to time, but we do our best to facilitate joint career moves where we can.
Nestlé With other multinationals has launched the International Dual Career Network (IDCN) to help dual career spouses with their local job search and professional integration in a new country. With several locations around the world, the IDCN also provides advice, connections and support. More information about IDCN.
Rewards
Nestlé offers an attractive total rewards package that comprises a competitive salary and performance-oriented variable pay in return for your contribution to our success.
Besides these financial rewards, we offer many opportunities for personal growth and development to help you reach your full potential, such as an internationally mobile career that truly broadens your experience and knowledge.
Of course, our total rewards package varies locally to reflect differing candidate aspirations and to respond to what our employees value around the world. But as a global, diverse and dynamic company, we offer many exciting opportunities and a total rewards package to match.
We are a people-inspired company. People are at the heart of everything we do. We look to promote a healthy lifestyle inside and outside work wherever possible.
Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: for ourselves, for others, for diversity and for the future. Our ways of working and flexible environment allow us to adapt to the ever-changing world. Promoting an inclusive environment helps us bring our purpose and values to life every day.
Career Development
Career Development
We’ll help you develop as a professional and perform to the best of your ability. You and your career are both important to us.
We know that it is our people who set us apart and spur our success year after year. We’re only able to hit our targets because you hit yours. Every year you will set performance and development goals with your manager, aligned with the business company goals. This helps you understand how you contribute to the bigger picture and ensure you are engaged to meet them.
At Nestlé, we believe in a continuous performance mindset. We encourage open, honest and transparent conversations through regular Check-Ins. These help drive continuous performance and development, focusing on the things that matter, supported by coaching, feedback and recognition.
You are in charge of your own professional development. Having regular dialogue throughout the year is a great way to help you achieve your goals. Rewards are linked to your performance and include not only financial benefits, but also career opportunities, in line with your own aspirations and the needs of the company.
Coaching & Mentoring
Learning Model
In 2016, the hours of training continued to increase with an average of 38.8 hours per employee. This represents an investment of around USD 397 per employee, including both internal and external trainings.
Recruitment
Recruitment - What we look for
Your professional skills are important, but it’s just as important to us that your values align with our culture. We are driven by the purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future - and it shapes everything we do together. Excelling in this environment means sharing our sense of responsibility for the billions of lives we touch every day.
We want your personal commitment to what you do, and your passion for helping build and sustain an environment where everyone can do their best, collaborating with colleagues and partners to grow and succeed together.
Wherever in the world you apply, our Talent Acquisition teams will provide a professional, timely and responsive service.
Note:
By applying online, you are consenting to have your personal details used to process the job application and that we may transmit them across national borders when appropriate. We know privacy is important to you, therefore the data you submit to us will be used only in the framework of our Privacy Notice.
Students and graduates
Opportunities for development
At Nestlé, we offer exciting opportunities to people early in their careers all around the world.
Each of our markets offers different programs to candidates at the start of their career, from apprenticeships and traineeships to graduate programs and internships. We advertise all our vacancies on the job search page, and you can discover more about each program on our individual country websites. Nestlé also helps young people around the world to get a fulfilling job and career through the Nestlé needs YOUth initiative.
For early-career employees
People Academy
Available company-wide, this self-paced digital learning program helps you to discover Nestlé, its culture, principles and environmental commitments. You’ll learn how to adapt fast, work collaboratively, manage yourself and build leadership skills. People Academy can be accessed worldwide and is available in 19 languages.
For young people looking to start a career
Nestlé needs YOUth equips young people with the skills they need to thrive in tomorrow’s workplaces. Focusing on employment/employability, entrepreneurship and agripreneurship, it has a range of initiatives in different markets, for example:
Nesternship
This program is available in Nestlé's Asian markets. It’s an e-learning module focused on helping job applicants to learn interview skills, and applicants receive tailored guidance on strengths and improvement opportunities when they complete the module.
Iniciative por los jóvenes
For young people in Latin America, this e-learning program forms another part of Nestlé needs YOUth. Designed to help young people find better job opportunities, its modules include helping young people to build CVs and prepare for their first job.
A tax career in Nestlé was very different than my initial expectation because the world is shifting to digitalization. I had the opportunity to be part of different tax innovation projects like machine learning, and robotic process automation. I never thought my role could play a big part at Nestlé.
What makes Nestlé a great company is the constant learning. It is a company that does not stand still, but seeks new challenges. The tremendous portfolio of products it handles and the weight it has worldwide in the food industry, makes the work entertaining and very dynamic; it forces you to break boundaries and grow professionally.
I started at Nestlé with an Engineering Graduate Program in 2016, before working as a Project engineer. I have worked for more than 16 projects so far! Nestlé has always believed in me and in my skillset, and my effort has always been recognized: Nestlé has decided to invest in my studies and, thanks to the company, I completed an Industrialization Project Management Course in Halifax.
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Youth
The Nestlé Global YOUth Initiative is an investment for the future. We want to continue developing the next generation of Nestlé Leaders.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
As soon as they come up. It’s worth visiting the site regularly to make sure you don’t miss out on any new opportunities.
We ask that all applications are submitted online. This is the best chance for you to be considered for any actual and up-coming positions.
It means you’ll be able to apply for vacancies without having to enter your details each time. You’ll also be able to maintain and update your details whenever you want, and save previous searches so you can access them quickly.
The registration process should take no longer than 10 minutes. The more information you provide the easier it will be to match your details to suitable vacancies, so please take the time to ensure it’s as accurate and full as possible.
If you’re applying for a job, set aside around 25 minutes. This will allow you to attach a covering letter and answer specific questions about the vacancy.
Your details will only be seen by Nestlé recruiters and the line manager responsible for the specific vacancy you have applied for.
As soon as your details are registered, you will receive an online acknowledgment.
If you've applied online and included your email address, we'll contact you via email. Please make sure the email address you provide is accurate and one you access regularly.
Because different email providers use different screen widths, the information we send you may look odd, as though it has not been correctly formatted. If this is the case, we suggest changing the settings in your email account. In Hotmail go to Select Options, Mail Display Settings and change line width to 132. In Yahoo, go to Mail Options, General Preferences and change Screen Width to 99.
The process will differ from role to role. After we receive your application, we’ll analyse your profile to measure your match against the role profile. You’ll then be contacted by one of our recruitment teams. The next phase, could involve a series of interviews with Human Resources and, if you excel, interviews with the appropriate line manager. It is worth noting that we’ll be looking at your potential fit with our culture as well as exploring your achievements and motivations.
We’ll send you an itinerary beforehand and this will include the location of your interview(s).
We appreciate the time and effort you take when interviewing with us, and provide a status update afterwards.
Yes, new positions are posted on a daily basis.
Have a look at the minimum system requirements. It may be that you need to download some new software to get it to work properly.
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Activities for Healthier Kids
Activities to Help Your Child Make Healthy Choices
Inspiring your kids to eat a balanced diet and to exercise needn’t cause you stress.
As part of our global initiative Nestle for Healthier Kids, we’ve pulled together a series of fun activities designed to encourage kids to drink more water, eat more fruit and vegetables, manage their portion sizes, and be more active. Give them a whirl!
- Healthy Hydration Word Scramble
- Healthy Eating & Colourful Foods
- Healthy Eating Bingo
- Healthy Eating Plate
- Get A Move On Weekly Activity Planner
Cooking with Kids
1. Don't stress about the mess
Try not to worry about the mess that children will make having fun in the kitchen. Let them be creative. They can also be part of the clean-up team when it’s all over.
2. Encourage their imagination
Encourage your kids to be imaginative in the kitchen. Give them free-reign when decorating their cookies, or challenge them to create a fruit-salad rainbow or vegetable animals.
You could let kids cook with friends and turn it into a contest to see who can come up with the best design. But remember, everyone is a winner as they all get to enjoy a delicious prize!
3. Build life skills
Cooking with kids can be a great opportunity to teach important life skills.
You can talk about maths and fractions when measuring ingredients or cutting a pizza into wedges. Or help them understand more about hygiene and food safety while washing hands and preparing your work space. You can talk about healthy eating while you prepare and assemble your meal.
4. Bond over baking
The kitchen is a great place to spend more time with your kids and no fancy equipment or expensive memberships are required.
Baking cookies with kids can take an ordinary afternoon and make it extraordinary. Sharing time together while creating delicious treats is sure to build memories that will last a lifetime.
5. Make meal plans together
Meal planning with your kids is quality time spent together. It will show them the importance of eating a balanced diet – with plenty of wholegrain, fibre and vegetables, for example – excite their interest in food and encourage them to help you get creative in the kitchen!
6. Get kids involved
Children tend to eat more of the healthy food on their plate when they help prepare it.
There are lots of tasks that your children can help with. Washing, grating or mashing are all fun activities for kids. And don’t forget the washing up too!
7. Create food art
Make healthy eating fun for kids by getting creative at mealtimes.
Presenting food in the form of a picture or simple pattern, or decorating the rim of the plate, can make it more exciting and enticing for children. Animals and faces are always popular and broccoli and cauliflower make excellent trees! Or why not let kids cut peppers and cucumbers with cookie cutters, into interesting shapes like hearts, stars and diamonds.
Nestlé for Healthier Kids
Helping 50 million children lead healthier lives by 2030
Nestlé Canada Partners with Food Banks Canada
Since its beginning, Nestlé has been committed to helping parents and caregivers provide nutrition to their children. Announced globally in 2018, the Nestlé for Healthier Kids flagship initiative aims to help 50 million children lead healthier lives by 2030.
In 2019, Nestlé Canada launched the Nestlé for Healthier Kids initiative in Canada with a two-year partnership with Food Banks Canada. With more than 34% of food bank clients being children, we are proud to partner with Food Banks Canada to expand programs to reduce child hunger. Together, we will expand the Food Explorers Junior Rangers Program to 6-8 year olds, providing more children and their families with hands-on skills and knowledge for planning and cooking nutritious meals; and to deliver healthy food packs through the After the Bell Program, to children experiencing hunger during the summer months, when school based food programs are closed.
Since 2019, the After The Bell program has worked with over 180 food banks and community agencies in every province and territory and has distributed over 270,000 food packs!
About Food Banks Canada
Food Banks Canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to helping Canadians living with food insecurity. They support a network of Provincial Associations, Affiliate food banks, and food agencies that work at the community level to relieve hunger. Food Banks Canada's work is focused on three core areas: raising food and funds to share with our network; delivering programs and services to food banks to support their work; and influencing policy through research, awareness raising, and advocacy to find long term solutions to hunger.
Food Banks Canada provides national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network in Canada. For more information about Food Banks Canada and on how you can help in your community, please visit https://www.foodbankscanada.ca/.
About Food Explorers Junior Rangers Program
Food Banks Canada runs a nutrition education program called Food Explorers Junior Rangers Program to support parents and caregivers in teaching nutrition and cooking skills to their kids
The Food Explorers Program is a skills-based, healthy eating curriculum that teaches children (aged 6 to 8) who are already experiencing food insecurity, all about food, cooking and nutrition. Through Food Explorers, Food Banks Canada aims to educate and empower them to make positive long-term decisions about food. This is incredibly important as many of these children may already have pre-existing challenges with food and food insecurity and the program aims to help make a positive change.
The content is available to all 4,700 of Food Bank Canada’s agencies across the country.
As a key partner of ours, Food Banks Canada recognizes and firmly believes that everyone has the right to develop a positive relationship with food. For this reason, the curriculum is primarily focused on healthy patterns of eating rather than specific foods or nutrients, calories, or weight.
By supporting a national program like this, we’re able to support Canadians in need at the local level, through organizations that are already committed to making a difference.
Enabling healthier and happier lives
Nutrition is key to ensure a child’s healthy development. But as always, theory is one thing, practice is another. Encouraging kids to eat more veggies and fruits, ensuring their meals are as nutritious as possible and incorporating diversified protein sources – including plant-based options – can sometimes prove challenging for parents and caregivers.
Getting children involved in the preparation of meals leads them to adopt healthier eating habits – in short, their diet quality is higher, with children more inclined to eat fruits and vegetables. That’s why we encourage and advocate ‘togetherness’—when parents and kids come together in the kitchen.
Children who get involved in meal preparation have an increased preference for vegetables and an overall higher quality diet.
Inside Nestle
Benefits & Perks
As a global, diverse and dynamic company, we offer many exciting opportunities and a total rewards package to match.
Employee Health and Wellness
Our vision and values should shape everything we do. We believe strongly that they should be lived and experienced every day. By providing our people with a healthy diet and sporting activities, we support our principle of ‘healthy minds in healthy bodies,’ and create the healthy workforce that sets us apart.
Rewards
Our appeal to new and existing people doesn’t just rest on the financial rewards and benefits we offer. Our name conveys hard-earned value and trust in all our people. We pride ourselves on our strong relationships between line managers and fellow workers. We offer a global, diverse and enriching environment. And we have countless possibilities to learn and grow. All these factors – our Total Rewards as we call them – contribute to our appeal.
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Provide a globally consistent framework with the flexibility for each Market to create competitive programmes that comply with local legislation.
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Focus on attracting and retaining talented employees, building a high-performance culture and ensuring a highly engaged workforce that achieves sustainable business results.
Although there are variations between Markets in what employees value, there are also some common elements:
Performance Culture
A high performance culture supported by differentiated rewards and development is key to the delivery of individual and business objectives. This is driven by the alignment of clear and challenging responsibilities and priorities and ensuring that employees are aware of how their work impacts Nestlé.
Career Development
At Nestlé you will have the support and encouragement to achieve true fulfillment, by growing professionally and personally, collaborating with colleagues and partners diverse in both culture and ways of thinking.
Talent Assessment & Succession Planning
Succession Planning is the way in which we plan career development and fill middle and senior-level jobs. We are very methodical about how we plan this process. Nothing is left to chance. Our succession plans cover all the key jobs in Nestlé and include a list of forecasted potential successors for those roles.
Corporate Mentoring Programme
Our Corporate Mentoring Programme will help you to accelerate your development through relationship-based support, transfer of experience of key insights and unwritten rules as well as bringing exposure to the areas beyond the current role.
International Training Center
Our International Training Centre in Switzerland will provide you with a variety of programmes and courses to exchange knowledge and share ideas with colleagues from other countries
International Mobility
There is always an opportunity to deepen your expertise and develop leadership by getting an international experience. We have over 2000 expatriates in some 96 countries. Together with other multinationals we have launched an exclusive network that help dual career spouses with their local job search as well as professional integration in a new country.
Global Youth Initiative
Our Nestlé needs YOUth programme aims to help people get skilled and get hired.
The Nestlé Global YOUth Initiative is an investment for the future. We want to continue developing the next generation of Nestlé Leaders
Alliance for YOUth
In order to create an even bigger societal impact, Nestlé founded the Alliance for YOUth in 2014 with more than 200 companies participating.
The 'Alliance for YOUth' is the first pan-European business-driven movement pledging to help young people be better prepared to enter the professional world, and improve their chances in a challenging job market. The Alliance will offer 230,000 new work opportunities for young Europeans between 2017 and 2020. It has already provided training and jobs for 115,000 young Europeans since 2014. Learn more about the Alliance for YOUth.
