Summer Internship

Innovia Technology has an exciting opportunity for undergraduate or graduate students with backgrounds in Engineering, Medicine, Veterinary medicine, Life sciences, Physics, Materials science and Soft Matter, Chemistry, Business and Economics, Psychology and Behavioural sciences to join our 10-12 week paid Summer Internship programme 2027 to apply their skills to innovation consultancy and work on varied and creative projects at our Cambridge UK offices.

We solve complex innovation challenges and create new opportunities so our clients can outperform competitors and change the world for good. You’ll join our holistic project teams to collaborate and work on the most demanding of challenges.

Our clients include Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, LEGO, Pepsi Co, Procter & Gamble, Haleon, Shell, IWC Schaffhausen, Kenvue, Kraft Heinz, and The North Face. Clients work with Innovia Technology because our work leads to products and services that customers prefer - reaching markets faster and more efficiently than any realistic alternative.

You’ll get a crash course in quickly applying what you’ve learned in an academic setting to unfamiliar real-world situations, extracting what’s useful, and synthesising information from many sources. You’ll learn about topics you've never explored before and solve complex technical problems within industries from food and drink to energy, cosmetics, manufacturing, consumer goods, health or medicines.

Working closely with other specialists whose background may be in organic chemistry, public health, theoretical physics, chemical engineering or veterinary medicine, you'll get an opportunity to greatly expand your thinking, gain insights into various specialisms and see how they interconnect in a holistic project setting. We’ll provide training so can hit the ground running.

As a Summer Intern, you will spend most of your time working on the innovation challenges faced by our clients. You’ll typically work on 2-3 projects at once, and the nature of these projects can be remarkably varied, but here is a list of key things you will be doing:

• Bringing your technical skills and creativity to innovation challenges
• Collaborating closely with colleagues from different fields to solve broad and complex problems
• Conducting desk-based research (e.g., literature reviews) and primary research (qualitative and quantitative)
• Creating new ideas, insights, and models, and transferring this thinking between different applications and industries
• Challenging conventional thinking and industry-specific assumptions
• Helping to structure and create presentations for colleagues and clients

The description below should also provide some insights into the role. It is important that you:

• Have a background in one of these areas:
  Engineering, Medicine, Veterinary medicine, Life sciences, Physics, Materials science and Soft Matter, Chemistry, Business and Economics, Psychology and Behavioural sciences.
• Have at least completed the third year of your undergraduate degree by summer 2027. We accept applications from postgraduate students who are graduating in 2027.
• Evidenced by your academic performance, you must have passed or be on track to pass your current undergraduate or graduate degree.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the fundamental principles of your subject, and the ability to apply them to unfamiliar problems.
• Are keen to work in a dynamic commercial and client focussed environment.
• Have a strong interest in collaborative teamwork and have good communication skills.
• Are comfortable giving your considered opinion on complex questions, and taking part in lively discussions.
• Have excellent timekeeping and task…