As food retailers we work in a “people” business, and our employees are key to Ahold’s success. We provide challenging and development-oriented career paths for our employees and offer high quality learning opportunities that help them improve their knowledge and skills and build their careers.
Ahold has specific programs in place to develop the talent within our company.
Our learning programs are aligned to our business strategy, and drive our capabilities as a business, our performance and our competitive advantage.
We provide a series of training curricula for the development of specific functional expertise such as:
- Merchandizing
- Supply Chain Management
- Store Operations
- Finance
- Human Resources
In addition, our general curriculum consists of orientation programs, as well as training to maximize personal effectiveness and enhance managerial and leadership capabilities.
Our learning programs are aligned with the short- and long-term business needs of our people and are grounded in experience and integrated into the work they do.