Stage Internship Procurement Excellence & Sustainability

Albert Heijn; Zaandam; Hybrid; EUR 13,000 - 15,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Wellbeing initiatives

Cross brand career options

International collaboration

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize invites applications for an internship in the Not-for-Resale (NFR) Sourcing, Procurement Excellence & Sustainability team. You will work 32–40 hours per week from Zaandam and from home, contributing to European cross-border sourcing and sustainability initiatives.

As part of a diverse team, you will support procurement excellence, sourcing intelligence and sustainable procurement through market intelligence, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor student suitable for an internship.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills along with analytical thinking.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Follow market developments in selected sub-categories.
• Support category teams with sourcing strategies.
• Build compelling stories and engage with stakeholders.
• Create actionable insights from market intelligence.
• Support Supply Chain Sustainability activities.
• Design and implement new developments.
• Coordinate and publish the European newsletter.

Skills

Fluent English

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Proactive & adaptable

Ambitious

Take responsibility

Education

Bachelor

Job description

Would you like to become part of a young international team and help shape Ahold Delhaize’s Not-for-Resale (NFR) sourcing department? Keep on reading if you would like to learn more about purchasing, improve your communication skills and take on responsibility!

• Stage Internship Procurement Excellence & Sustainability
• Zaandam
• Bachelor
• Merchandising & Sourcing
• European Business Services
• Location Flexible

How you can make a difference

About your future team.
NFR Sourcing stands for Not for Resale Sourcing. We facilitate the business operations of all our European Ahold Delhaize brands by sourcing the indirect goods and services they need. Put simply, our department buys everything that you see in a store that’s not for sale. Examples of these items are endless, covering everything from flooring and shelving to our ovens, checkout counters and packaging for our private label products. We’re a truly European department, looking beyond borders to deliver the best sourcing solutions for all our European brands across the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia and Greece.

Your new workplace.
The Procurement Excellence & Sustainability team is a team of ten sourcing professionals, all coming from diverse backgrounds representing multiple nationalities. The atmosphere within the team is collaborative, caring, flexible and fun. We have great ambitions, like to focus on innovation, and pride ourselves with providing the best support to the EU NFR sourcing crew.

We offer an interesting and versatile internship position, which will allow you to make an impact on European level. The team focuses on 3 main elements:

• Procurement excellence.
• Sourcing intelligence.
• Sustainable procurement.

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

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

This is what you will be doing.
As an intern in the NFR PES team you will work on many projects, stimulating European cross-border collaboration and improving European sourcing practices. As part of your daily activities you will:

• Follow market developments in selected sub-categories.
• Support our category teams with successful category sourcing strategies.
• Build compelling stories and engage with internal and external stakeholders.
• Create actionable insights for our category teams based on market intelligence.
• Support Supply Chain Sustainability activities.
• Work on the design and implementation of new developments.
• Coordinate and publish the European newsletter.

This is what we offer you.

• Interesting and varied internship for 5 or 6 months starting in Februari 2027.
• A lot of responsibility and room for own initiatives.
• The Ahold Delhaize internship experience (drinks, events and networking with all the interns at the HQ).
• Internship- and travel compensation (€500,- every four weeks).
• Internship where you obtain real work experience.
• Possibility to graduate in combination with 4 or 5 days of working.

This is what you will bring.
At Ahold Delhaize you will be working for one of the largest retailers in the world. Specifically for this internship vacancy you have a hands-on mentality and a team-player attitude. You supplement this with the following skills:

• Fluent in English both written and verbal.
• Ambitious and like to take on responsibility.
• Advanced Excel and Powerpoint skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Proactive and adaptable.

What do we offer?

• Hybrid working
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Cross brand career options
• International & cross cultural collaboration
• Inclusive & caring culture
• Shape a healthier tomorrow