Packaging & Sustainability Internship

• 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.

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 a hands-on mentality and a curious attitude to Albert Heijn. Also:

As an intern within the Albert Heijn packaging team, you will work on making our private label packaging more sustainable. This is a challenging role with a clear goal on the horizon: by 2025, all our packaging will be recyclable, we will have saved at least 20 million kg of packaging material, and reusable packaging will be the new norm. You have the (technical) knowledge to help make these ambitious objectives a reality towards sustainable, circular packaging.

Your new job and workplace.
As an Intern, you will make a direct contribution to making Albert Heijn's packaging more sustainable: Reducing, making it Recyclable, and establishing Reusable packaging as the new norm. You won't do this alone, but together with your team colleagues. You will support your colleagues with various responsibilities, working on:

• You will work on reducing and making packaging recyclable. This is done together with buyers, category managers, and suppliers. In doing so, you will provide support in analysis, plans of approach, and execution.
• You will maintain, among other things, the 'Sustainable packaging for Albert Heijn' handbook.
• You will support projects and reports from your colleagues within the packaging team.
• You will research relevant technical innovations and inspire your colleagues.

You won't do this alone; you will become part of the close-knit packaging team within the Quality department, where you will work together with experienced packaging specialists and the packaging data team. You will work on packaging projects with suppliers and research relevant innovations. In doing so, you will call upon your communication skills and your technical curiosity and knowledge. What makes this role so much fun? Your knowledge in the field of packaging will develop extremely quickly, and you will see your work reflected in more than 1,000 Albert Heijn stores.

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

• Takes initiative/hands-on mentality.
• Strong communicator.
• Analytical.
• Passion for packaging.