Internship Health & Sustainability, Europe & Indonesia

Starting in September, we are offering a 6-month paid internship for a sustainability-passionate Master’s student eager to gain experience in a business context!

Your new job and workplace.

Health and Sustainability (H&S) is one of our four strategic growth drivers and a central part of our culture and values within Ahold Delhaize. We have a clear mission: to ensure people – our brands’ customers, associates, and communities – make healthier and more sustainable choices, and live on the planet in a healthier, more sustainable way.

Our Global Support Office (GSO) Health & Sustainability (H&S) Team, which includes a small H&S Europe & Indonesia team of two, is passionate about driving systemic change and maximizing impact. The H&S team aims to achieve this by connecting brands, leveraging knowledge and embracing innovation.

The teams across Ahold Delhaize brands innovate continuously to make products more nutritious and sustainable. Our diverse, passionate H&S team is a strong combination of strategic professionals and sustainability experts on topics ranging from ESG governance, carbon emissions, healthy and sustainable diets, nature & biodiversity, to how we can reduce food and plastic waste.

As an intern in our H&S Europe & Indonesia team you contribute directly to the exciting journey of delivering Ahold Delhaize’s H&S strategy. You get the chance to explore topics and support experts on for instance climate, food waste, health, plastics at one of the world’s largest food retail groups. Joining the company alongside many other interns, you’ll be onboarding together with peers as part of your exciting learning journey. As an intern you will support activities such as:

• Keep track of best practices, across our brands. For example, helping an expert in the GSO H&S team with making compelling overviews of initiatives that reduce food waste, plastic packaging or emissions that could be scaled from one brand to another.
• Conducting relevant desk research. For example, helping our brands with information needs and/or market analysis in support of topic-specific plans.
• Preparing PowerPoint presentations and SharePoint pages: from creation of content to fine-tuning or maintaining documents – whether of a strategic nature, an annual plan or organizational charts of those working on sustainability in the region.
• Internal engagement & capability building initiatives. For example, coordination of the newly created initiative “Ahold Delhaize Impact Cinema” (which includes a partnership with the WaterBear Network).
• Light support to the H&S Europe & Indonesia Director with practical tasks. For example, to support the logistics and preparation of meetings with larger groups.

In this position you work 32-40 hours per week, partly from our head office in Zaandam and partly from home. This is an internship where you’ll be working as part of the team, it is not a research internship that can be combined with, for example, thesis research.

We think it is important that you at Ahold Delhaize can be yourself in an environment that is open to different perspectives, an environment in which we are curious and appreciate each other. For this position we are preferably looking for someone who will strengthen the diversity in our team, in the broadest sense of the word. Someone who brings a different sound based on their own background and personal qualities and is therefore a good addition to our team.

What you will learn as an H&S intern within Ahold Delhaize (examples, not meant to be exhaustive)

• All ins and outs of Ahold Delhaize’s Health & Sustainability strategy.
• Feeling for Health & Sustainability dynamics in the global retail sector and its value chain.
• Project coordination skills.
• Verbal & written communication skills.