Commercial Intern Chips, Nuts & Toast

• 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.

As an Intern in the Chips, Nuts, Toast and Bakery department, you will get to know the most fun category at Albert Heijn. Together, we ensure that many customers are made happy every day by our products and are surprised by new products time and time again! Together with the team, you will ensure that the commercial objectives of the category within Albert Heijn are achieved.

Within the assortment of Chips, Nuts, Toast and Bakery products, innovation of new products is an important theme, both for A-brands and for the Private Label assortment. A new product must go through various steps. As an intern, you are responsible for monitoring and guiding this Private Label development process. That means you are the first point of contact for suppliers and colleagues. You work according to a tight schedule and you must ensure that the information and data of various products is in the right place at the right time. Additionally, you play an important role in supporting the category manager and sourcing manager in the merchandising policy. Think of setting the right strategy on price, promotion, assortment & presentation, but also, for example, how we as a category can hook into AH's marketing campaigns.

During this active internship, you will get to know the different sides of Category Management. As an intern, you are responsible for monitoring and guiding the Private Label development process and ensuring that it runs smoothly. That means you are the first point of contact for suppliers and colleagues when, for example, a new product is introduced.

Your new job and workplace.
As an Intern, you make a direct contribution to achieving the commercial goals. You do not do this alone, but together with your colleagues from the team. You support the team in their activities, where you will work on:

• Coordinating the weekly design planning and guiding/managing suppliers in this.
• Assessing product proposals from suppliers (including tastings).
• Writing design briefings and product development of private label products.
• Supporting the category manager and sourcing manager in the merchandising policy. Think of setting the right strategy on price, promotion, assortment & presentation.

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