Stage Corporate Communicatie

What are you looking for?

If you're looking for an all-round external communications, reputation, media relations and social media internship in an international, corporate environment - this is your chance! 

We have a very professional communications team, of smart, fun and energetic people. We like to deliver and encourage our interns to learn as much along the way as they can. 

Your new job and workplace. 
Ahold Delhaize is a global food retail company with 16 local brands. As an intern in our team, you will be included in our current projects, discussions and brainstorm. We are happy to get your thoughts on topics that matter, and you will be encouraged to work together with other colleagues within our company (including the local brands). You support your colleagues to protect, promote, and position Ahold Delhaize's reputation through strategic storytelling, stakeholder engagement, and proactive management and strategic advice for key moments and issues, in support of the long-term objectives of the company. The internship in the Corporate Communications team includes these (and many other) activities: 

• Writing for external (and internal) audiences and social media. 
• Creating new creative communication means. 
• Analyzing media coverage and social media attention for our company and the local brands. 
• Researching media outlets, conferences and other external opportunities. 

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

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. 

This is what we offer you. 

• An interesting and versatile internship at the Ahold Delhaize headquarters for 5/6 months starting in September 2025. 
• An internship with a lot of responsibility, where you really gain work experience. 
• An internship allowance (€500,- per four weeks) plus travel expenses. 
• Pleasant drinks and (networking) events with all interns at our head office. 
• An inclusive environment in which you can continue to develop personally and professionally. 

This is what you bring. 
With our 414,000 colleagues worldwide, we work every day to help people eat well, save time and live better. And if it were up to us, we will soon do this together with you as our new Intern. Especially if you bring your enthusiasm and energy to Ahold Delhaize. Also: 

• You are currently studying at an (international) university/college level (BA level and above), preferably in the field of (Corporate) Communications, Political Science, Business Management (with a focus on comms/marketing), Media Studies. 
• Solid English skills and affinity with communications. 
• PowerPoint skills. 
• Design skills are welcome. 

In addition, you are: 

• Proactive attitude. 
• Friendly and collegial nature. 
• Service minded; happy to help. 
• Positive mindset. 
• Eager to learn. 

Growing Together. 

As the global Communications team, we play a key role in how customers, associates, and our investors see us. It’s up to us to manage our reputation and give meaning to the company’s mission of helping people eat well, save time, and live better. We work and communicate on a great number of challenging and sometimes complex topics such as sustainability, inclusion, and diversity. One of the (many) perks of working for Ahold Delhaize’s Communications team is that you have a far-reaching impact. It’s safe to say that being responsible for global communications on three different continents is not for the faint-hearted. We’re a dynamic team with diverse backgrounds and profiles all striving for the same thing: to make a difference.

Are you ready to realize this mission together? 
Contact us by sending an email to stage@aholddelhaize.com. 

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
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Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
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Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
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