Confectionery Commercial Intern

• 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.

Your new job and workplace.
As an Intern in the Confectionery department, 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. Together, we ensure that many customers are made happy every day by our products and are constantly surprised by new products!

Within the assortment of confectionery, biscuits, seasonal, sugar confectionery, snacks & chocolate, innovation 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. The most important tasks are:

• Coordinating the weekly design planning.
• Managing the quality and NPD monitor.
• Assessing product proposals from suppliers, including tastings.
• Guiding and directing suppliers.
• Private label product development.
• Writing design briefings.
• 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.

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 bring an affinity for Retail and goal-orientedness towards Albert Heijn. Also: