NFR Sourcing Intern

About Ahold Delhaize NFR Sourcing

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!

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.

What You Will Be Doing as an NFR Sourcing Intern

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.

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.

What We Offer You

• Interesting and varied internship for 5 or 6 months starting in September 2024.
• A lot of responsibility and room for own initiatives.
• The Ahold Delhaize internship experience (borrels, events and networking with all the interns at the HQ).
• Nice 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.

What You Will Bring

At Ahold Delhaize you will be working for one of the largest retailers in the world. Specifically for this NFR Sourcing Intern 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.

Key skills/competency

• Procurement
• Sourcing
• Market Intelligence
• Sustainability
• Category Management
• Supply Chain
• Cross-border Collaboration
• Communication Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Excel & PowerPoint