Your Purpose
As an intern with Harris Teeter, your purpose is to gain hands-on experience while contributing to meaningful projects that support our team’s goals. This role is designed to support your development, offering you opportunities to take initiative and bring a fresh perspective to the work we do.
What You’ll Do
- Support day-to-day departmental operations and contribute to ongoing projects
- Conduct research, gather data, and deliver reports as needed
- Take ownership of assigned tasks and deliver high-quality work in a timely manner
- Participate in team meetings, providing insights and an alternative perspective
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve real business challenges
- Challenge the status-quo, ask questions and provide feedback on current processes and procedures
- Connect with other Interns across the business, sharing ideas and learning from each other
- Sit in Intern group meetings, events and roundtables, speaking up and sharing your experiences
Supporting Leadership Through the 5 Es
- As an associate, you are a key part of our success. You represent our values every day and help bring our purpose to life. Through the 5Es, you can lead from any role by showing up with care, pride, and a commitment to doing your best work—for your team, our customers, and the company.
- Envision: Understand how your job makes a difference. Know the “why” behind your tasks and how they support your team and store goals. Ask questions if something doesn’t make sense and speak up with ideas to help things run better.
- Energize: Bring a positive attitude and energy to work every day. Greet others with kindness, support your teammates, and celebrate wins—big or small. Stay focused, even during busy times, and help lift others up when things get tough.
- Enroll: Be a team player. Listen, share your ideas, and ask how you can help. Get to know your coworkers and learn what they do. Make sure everyone feels welcome and included by showing respect and care.
- Enable: Take pride in learning and growing. Ask for help when you need it and look for ways to get better every day. Use the tools and resources available to you. Offer to help train new associates or show someone how to do something the right way.
- Execute: Do your job well and take ownership of your work. Be on time, follow through, and ask questions if you're unsure. Pay attention to detail, follow safety and quality standards, and take pride in doing things the right way the first time.
What You Bring
Required:
- Current student or recent graduate from an accredited undergraduate or graduate college or university.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Excel, etc.)
Preferred
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Excel, Power BI, etc.)
- Retail grocery experience
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Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, in accordance with applicable laws, to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
Physical Demands
Physical demands include, but are not limited to, high aptitude for standing and walking endurance, sitting while driving to various stores, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, pushing and pulling climbing ladders of various types, bending, squatting, and kneeling, and working in different temperatures inside and outside the store.
