Internship Health & Sustainability

Internship Opportunities at Ahold Delhaize

Healthy Communities & Planet is one of our six strategic priorities and a central part of our culture and values within Ahold Delhaize. We have a clear purpose: inspiring everyone to eat and live better, for a healthier future for people and planet.

Our Global Support Office (GSO) Health & Sustainability (H&S) team 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.

Your New Job and Workplace

• One position within the smaller ESG Strategy, Performance & Engagement team made up of a Director and a Specialist who will supervise you.
• Another position within the Climate & Environment team with around 6 colleagues.

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

• Keeping track of and sharing best practices, across our brands. For example, helping an expert in the 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 practical desk research. For example, analyzing peers in our industry on sustainability targets, initiatives, and performance.
• Collecting relevant input for ESG ratings and benchmarks and analyzing improvement potential.
• Internal engagement, awareness, and capability building initiatives. For example, supporting associate learning initiatives related to health & sustainability by organizing webinars and activation events.

For this position, your work availability is 32-40 hours per week. We work in a hybrid way, with a strong preference for at least two days per week working from our head office in Zaandam. This is an internship where you will be working as part of the team, it is not a research internship that can be combined with, for example, in-house thesis research.

What You Will Learn

• All ins and outs of Ahold Delhaize's strategy and specifically the priority on Healthy Communities & Planet, including topics such as health, climate, circularity, and nature.
• Feeling for Health & Sustainability dynamics in the global (food) retail sector and its value chain.
• Project coordination skills.
• Verbal & written communication skills within a large professional organization.

This Is What We Offer You

• An interesting and versatile internship at the Ahold Delhaize headquarters for 5/6 months.
• An internship with a lot of responsibility, where you really gain work experience.
• An internship allowance (€500,- every four weeks based on 40 hours per week) plus travel expenses.
• Events with other interns at our head office.
• An inclusive environment in which you can continue to develop personally and professionally.

You Bring This With You

With our 402,000 colleagues worldwide, we work every day to inspire everyone to eat and live better, for a healthier future for people and planet. You can be a great addition to our team if you want to contribute to this purpose and bring your enthusiasm and energy to Ahold Delhaize and if you meet these criteria:

• You are enrolled in a relevant Master’s degree with a demonstrable focus on sustainability, environmental studies, business, economics, sustainable finance, and/or innovation (please note that you need to be enrolled in a Dutch university for the entire duration of the internship).
• You speak and write in English at a native or near-native level. For example, you’ll be expected to draft articles for internal web pages or texts in presentation slide decks with limited supervision.
• You have excellent Microsoft Office skills (especially PowerPoint and Excel).
• You have the ability to independently (or with little support) coordinate a project.
• You must be based in The Netherlands and able to work from our head office in Zaandam at least 2-3 days per week.
• You are available to start February 2025 for at least five months.

Additional Qualities

• Demonstrate versatility and flexibility: willing and able to use different skills depending on the task at hand.
• Have a passion for sustainability and demonstrated interest in driving societal impact.
• Recognize yourself in our values.
• Have a hands-on mentality.
• Have strong communication skills associated with working in an international environment & multi-cultural team and networks.
• Are eager to learn.
• Work efficiently with strong prioritization and time management skills.
• Are structured & organized.
• Are analytical.

Growing Together: Healthy Communities & Planet

We lead the transition to a healthy and sustainable food system and create a brighter future for our communities. We believe there is an interplay between our own well-being and the well-being of our earth. The health crisis and the climate crisis are not separate issues, but interconnected challenges. What we put on our plates has a direct impact on the world beyond our kitchen table. Therefore, we focus on healthy communities and planet.

Are you ready to realize this mission together? For further queries, you can send an email to stage@aholddelhaize.com.