Coles
2025 Retail and Consumer Products Graduate Program (Feb 2025)
Melbourne, Melbourne
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 75,000 - 85,000 / Year
- 4-8 vacancies
- Apply by 7 Apr 2024
- Start date 11 Feb 2025
About the Program
From day one as a Coles graduate, you’ll feel the connection your work has to our purpose, to "helping Australians eat and live better every day". You will be accountable for making decisions in providing food, drink and home solutions that are delicious, sustainable and healthy for our customers and ensuring to deliver a consistent experience for our customers every day, both in-store and online.
Our Store Support Centre (SSC), based in Hawthorn East in Melbourne, is the engine room of Coles Group and a dynamic and rewarding place to work.
Why become a Coles Graduate?
At Coles, we understand that when you’re included, trusted and supported by leaders who genuinely care, you can do your best work for the team feeling like you belong.
During the two-year program, you’ll be working on real deliverables with clear ownership and accountability as you learn and grow through functional rotations, a tailored development program and a tight-knit support network.
You will also be able to work in cross-functional groups to complete an Innovation Project, where the top teams present to our Executive team on a genuine business challenge. We will support your passion and graduate journey with experiences and opportunities, with each rotation expanding your knowledge as you continue to discover Coles and yourself.
Discover our Agribusiness and Own Brand functions:
Agribusiness graduates will develop a deep understanding of the Australian meat supply chain for Coles, working with farmers, processors, and retail packers to deliver exceptional livestock products. Seeing your products from paddock to plate is quite an experience and provides immediate responsibility and opportunities to make a difference to yourself, your Business Unit, and the overall customer experience. All action from the get-go!
In our Coles Own Brand team, we spend our time eating, designing and developing great products to inspiring our customers. We collaborate across the whole business, consulting central teams and subject matter experts, as well as with our suppliers in a ‘winning together’ way. As a Graduate part of the Coles Brand team, you will learn how to develop innovative and world-class products working with local and international suppliers and ensuring we meet our Quality and Sustainable commitments.
The two-year Graduate Program commences in February 2025.
Applications will open Wednesday 6 March 2024 and will close Thursday 4 April 2024 midnight, APPLY NOW!
Eligibility Criteria: You’ll be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or hold permanent residency at the time of application For our Store Support Centre Graduate Program, you’ll have completed a bachelor's degree before commencing the program.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- New Zealand Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Depending on your rotation it will vary, currently working with microservices written in java and spring boot.
Mostly happy with the type of work i am completing. i am able to get through all my tasks and support my team where they need. i have a set of daily and monthly tasks.
Our main role is to learn new skills and take on new challenges. each rotation you complete will have different day-to-day responsibilities. this could range from reporting to creating presentation packs, or engaging with stakeholders, project management, site visits etc.
About the employer
Coles
4.1
> 100,000 employees
Retail & Consumer Goods
Choose a job you love! Be part of a unique, two year, accelerated development program!
Pros and cons of working at Coles
Pros
Coles is extremely flexible and caters well to the cohort in the office.
There are many development and growth opportunities available to graduates to continuously improve and enhance their career.
Line managers and leaders are always willing to give you time to upskill and grow.
The flexibility of the role is a definite highlight, allowing me to not only thrive in my role but also put myself first.
The culture here is great and people are willing to help me when I ask.
Cons
Being such a large organisation can be daunting and learning how it operates to be able to complete your role can be frustrating at times.
The systems are a little outdated.
It's such a large business it can feel not very personable.
Of course, this is heavily influenced by the individuals that make up a respective intake of graduates, but there is great opportunity and breadth of graduates from different departments to be exposed to and build meaningful connections with.
Can be very fast paced and complicated to navigate such a large organisation.