Internship Category Cheese & Snacks

• An interesting and versatile internship at the Albert Heijn head office for 5/6 months.
• An internship with a lot of responsibility, where you gain real work experience.
• An internship allowance (€500 per four weeks) plus travel expenses.
• Social drinks and (networking) events with all interns within our head office.
• An inclusive environment in which you can continuously develop yourself both personally and professionally.

The tastiest category at Albert Heijn: there is always time for snacks and cheese! Think along with us about the latest innovations, contribute to our promotion strategy, and how we can make better food accessible to everyone.

Your new job and workplace.
The Cheese & Snacks category is responsible for the entire cheese assortment (from bread toppings to snack cheeses and burratas for salads) and all fresh snack assortments (olives, hummus, salads, tapas, etc.). The category's work consists of managing all items on the shelf within the marketing mix p (product, price, promotion, place). We work in a team with two assistants, two buyers, one merchandiser, and two category managers. Because we are a dynamic team with many different assortment groups and tasks, you will receive many responsibilities, be involved in everything, and be an indispensable part! You will support the category with all kinds of different activities such as:

Making better food accessible together. For everyone.
With 125,000 colleagues, spread across more than 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders, eight home shop centers, six distribution centers, and our head office, Albert Heijn fills over six million plates every evening. At Albert Heijn, we believe that food and drink play an essential role in the great challenges of society. It makes an important contribution to a healthy lifestyle, connects people, and contributes to a better climate and thus a sustainable society. Our mission is therefore: Making better food accessible together. For everyone.

• Setting up internal product tastings and, of course, tasting them yourself.
• Development trajectories for innovations and design planning.
• Support with the Bonus process.
• Communication with the supplier and the internal organization regarding the progress of the project.
• Working with the back-office systems that are essential for the category.
• Thinking along about strategy/analyzing data for the category.
• Answering consumer and store questions regarding the category.

In this position, you work 32-40 hours per week, partly from our head office in Zaandam and partly from home.

What you bring with you.
With our 125,000 colleagues, we fill over six million plates every evening. And if it were up to us, we will soon be doing that together with you as our new Intern. Especially if you bring your expertise and enthusiasm to Albert Heijn. Also: