About the role

As a Change and Capability Intern, you’ll be part of the Wholesale team, supporting change initiatives and capability uplift across stores. This role focuses on improving how change, learning, and communication are delivered to ensure they are clear and effective.

Key responsibilities

• Support improvements to the internal learning repository, including structure, usability, and accessibility.
• Assist with persona and role-based mapping across change, learning, and communications.
• Help simplify and streamline learning materials to ensure consistency and ease of use for stores.
• Support store communications, including content development and feedback collection.

About you

You’re currently studying towards, or have recently completed, a degree in HR, Management, Operations Management, Psychology, Business Communication, or a related field. You’re interested in change management, communication, and improving how teams adopt new ways of working.

Our internship programme offers

• 12-weeks paid work at living wage starting in November based in Māngere, Auckland.
• Renowned learning and development sessions fortnightly.
• An extensive support network - your People Leader, the Talent Team, a Kaiārahi (mentor) and your fellow interns to help you along the way.
• The opportunity to tackle real-world business problems that help us achieve our aspiration – to help New Zealanders get more out of life.
• Modern office spaces with free parking, subsidised lunches, flexible working, weekly supplier tastings and regular celebrations.
• 5% in store and online discount in our supermarkets.

We’re looking for someone who is interested in discovering their career with us.

You’ll have a curiosity to learn, a knack for problem solving and be ready to get stuck in to making a positive impact on New Zealand communities. You’ll ideally be interested in one of the above areas listed and in our application form, you’ll have the opportunity to indicate your preferred roles (you don’t necessarily need to be studying something that is aligned).

You’ll be working for a New Zealand owned and operated Co-op whose purpose is to help New Zealanders get more out of life.

We have a commitment to be here for our country, here for our people and here for our communities in everything we do, and we provide career opportunities like no other in our industry. We have an unbeatable team of over 25,000 people with a fun and inclusive culture where you feel like you belong. We work with some of New Zealands most treasured and iconic brands with over 350 PAK’n’SAVE, New World, Four Square, Gilmours and Liquorland stores across the North Island

Check us out here https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/, on Instagram @foodiescareers and on Tik Tok @lifeatfoodies to stay up to date.

Our recruitment process involves

• A written application form, video interview, and face-to-face interview with our People leaders.
• If successful, we’ll check your references before finalising contracts and moving you through our fun and interactive digital onboarding experience to get you ready to start in November.

If you require the recruitment process to be adapted due to an access need, please feel free to contact us directly – recruitment@foodstuffs.co.nz