Stage Innovation & Business Development

• An interesting and versatile internship position at the innovation department of Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall&Gall (TechNL Labs) for 5 months.
• An internship with a lot of responsibility and freedom, where you gain real work experience and are given the space to develop yourself.
• An internship allowance of €500 per four weeks, supplemented with a travel allowance. Even if you travel for free with your student travel pass, you will still receive this travel allowance.
• A work laptop (MacBook) that you can use during your internship.
• The freedom to work partly from home.
• A personal AH Bonuskaart with employee discount and a Premium subscription with extra benefits during your internship.
• Cozy drinks and (networking) events with all interns within Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall&Gall.
• An inclusive and informal working environment in which you can develop both personally and professionally.
• A young and understanding team that is ready to help you and thinks along with you.

What you bring.
With our 125,000 colleagues, we fill more than six million plates every evening. Hopefully soon together with you as our new Innovation & Business Development Intern! Especially if you bring the following knowledge and skills:

Are you an enthusiastic university master's student with a large dose of motivation looking for an educational and challenging internship? Then this is your chance! Within TechNL Labs, you will work on innovative concepts that make grocery shopping even easier, more fun, and faster. During your internship, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and get the chance to make a real impact with innovative ideas.

Your new job and workplace.
As an Innovation & Business Development Intern, you will make a direct contribution to initiating, testing, and scaling innovative concepts for Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall&Gall. You will not do this alone, but together with your colleagues from the TechNL Labs team. You will support the innovation experts in developing and validating new ideas, where you will work on:

During this period, you will learn everything about innovation in a retailtech environment, from brainstorming to going live. You will work according to the Lean Startup methodology, learn to translate trends into promising ideas, and discover how large-scale validation processes operate within a corporate organization.

Making better food accessible. 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 more than 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, connects people, and contributes to a better climate and thus a sustainable society. Our mission is therefore: Making better food accessible. For everyone. Albert Heijn Netherlands is B Corp certified. This certification underscores our mission, contributing 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 accountability.

• Brainstorming and conducting research into innovative ideas that could be of value to Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall&Gall.
• The end-to-end development of innovative prototypes: from concept development to validated, implementable solutions.
• Validating assumptions through customer interviews, experiments, and online tests.
• Setting up and supervising pilots with customers and/or internal users.
• Working closely with Tech, Product, Data Science, and UX.
• Drafting a substantiated final evaluation of validations.

• The internship starts from February 2027 for a period of 5 months.
• The internship can be combined with a graduation internship.
• In this position, you will work 32-40 hours per week, partly from our head office in Zaandam (approximately two days per week) and partly from home.

Additionally:

• You are entrepreneurial, experimental, and have a hands-on mindset.
• You learn quickly, test your assumptions, and dare to take initiative.
• You work accurately and are not afraid to take responsibility.
• You communicate strongly and enjoy working in multidisciplinary teams.