Internship Commercial Breakfast, Coffee & Tea

As an Intern in the Breakfast team, you will get to know the most fun category at Albert Heijn. Within a large team with great colleagues, you will receive a lot of responsibility. Do you love spotting trends, thinking about how the assortment can be healthier, and do you want to make an impact on the customer's life? Then this is a wonderful place to get to know Albert Heijn and develop yourself!

Your new job and workplace.
The Breakfast category is responsible for delicious and/or healthy and innovative product groups such as Bread Spreads, Bread Substitutes, Breakfast Cereals, Gluten-free, and Wholefoods (organic). The team consists of 7 people, including 2 category managers, 2 sourcing managers, 2 assistants, and an intern. In short, many people to learn from!

Innovation is an important theme, both for A-brands and for 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 for various products is in the right place at the right time. Additionally, there is plenty of room and freedom to shape your internship yourself; think of supplier visits or supporting campaigns.

• Internal point of contact for the product development of own-brand items (private label) and coordinating the design planning and briefings.
• Coordinating inspections and liaising with our quality department.
• Guiding and managing suppliers (A-brand and Private Label) and assessing product proposals.
• Attending meetings with design agencies: During these meetings, they present concepts of the new packaging to the design managers.
• Answering ad-hoc questions relating to product developments.

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

This is what we offer you.

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 be doing that together with you as our new Intern. Especially if you enjoy working with food, have an entrepreneurial attitude, and are a team player. Also:

• You are currently pursuing a degree at HBO/WO (higher professional/university) level.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Affinity with retail.
• Good knowledge of Word and Excel is a plus.
• Flexible attitude.
• Decisive and goal-oriented.
• Good knowledge of the Dutch and English languages.

Making better food accessible together. For everyone.
With 125,000 colleagues, spread across more than 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders, nine home shop centers, seven distribution centers, and our head office, Albert Heijn fills over seven million plates every evening. At Albert Heijn, we believe that food and drink play an essential role in the great challenges in society. It makes an important contribution to a healthy lifestyle, it connects people, and contributes to a better climate and thereby a sustainable society. Our mission is therefore: Making better food accessible together. For everyone. Albert Heijn Netherlands is B Corp certified. This certification underscores our mission, through which it makes a contribution to a healthy, social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is awarded to companies that meet high standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and legal accountability.

Are you ready to make this mission come true together?
Click the application button to apply. You can also apply even if you don't quite meet all the items on our shopping list. Would you rather know more first? Contact us by emailing stage@aholddelhaize.com.