About the role

As a Regulatory Compliance Intern, you’ll be part of the Regulatory Services Team within Retail Operations. This team supports Foodstuffs, its member stores, and suppliers to meet regulatory requirements and ensure products sold to customers are safe, suitable, and compliant. In this role, you’ll gain hands‑on experience working with food safety, supplier compliance, and regulatory standards, while supporting teams across the business.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Supplier Compliance & Technical Support team with day‑to‑day activities related to supplier management and regulatory compliance.
• Help manage the Foodstuffs Supplier Compliance Management Programme, including supplier compliance packs, certification renewals, and maintaining information in internal systems.
• Assist with reviewing and updating technical standards and regulatory guidance used to support Foodstuffs and its suppliers.
• Review supplier compliance and performance data to help identify risks or trends and support follow‑up actions with suppliers and internal teams.
• Review product and labelling compliance for new or changing products, including seasonal and imported items.
• Assist with data management, reporting, and dashboard tools (such as Power BI and Excel) to support analysis and reporting.

About you

You’re currently studying towards, or have recently completed, a degree in food science or a related discipline. You’re curious, enjoy learning, and are interested in food safety, compliance, and how regulations protect customers. You communicate clearly, work well with others, and are comfortable managing multiple tasks at once. An interest in data, reporting tools like Excel or Power BI, and food regulatory frameworks is a bonus, but not essential.

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 – [email protected]