Job Description
Program Start Date: 1 September 2025
Duration: 12-month program
Contract: Permanent contract from the beginning of the Trainee Program
Business Function: Sales, Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Supply Chain & Operations, People & Performance.
Location: Paris
IMPORTANT NOTE: Valid permanent working rights in France is required . Orientation year visa / Sponsorship Visa are not sufficient to progress in the recruitment.
Kraft Heinz Vision
At Kraft Heinz, our vision is to sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. We strive to be #1 in taste elevation by making life delicious. Like our passion for developing great foods, we are also dedicated to the development of great leaders. The Kraft Heinz Graduate Program is a development program for top talent seeking an exciting leadership career with Kraft Heinz.
The Kraft Heinz Graduate Program:
Our 12-month immersive program will challenge you to develop yourself as a future leader of our company. The program is crafted for top talent who seek a performance-based culture that is built on meritocracy, ambition, curiosity and passion .
During our 12-month program, you will join a class of other ambitious Graduates to learn directly from Kraft Heinz leaders, explore all areas of our organization to see exactly how the Heinz ketchup gets made and have multiple opportunities to work directly in our business and gain leadership and cross-functional exposure . As a Kraft Heinz Graduate you will make valuable contributions as a full-time employee from day one; doing real wor k, d elivering real results and having a real impact o n our business.
Your journey will start with a functional onboarding, giving you a hands-on induction into each of our different functions . This is followed by a field sales placement to get to know our products and consumers - because at Kraft Heinz, we are consumer obsessed! During the program you will get to work on an individual business project where you will be challenged to apply your problem-solving skills, then experience an agile business placement in a field different to your project. No worries if you don't have specific expertise in all these topics; you will be attending trainings and get mentored by senior managers throughout each stage of this exciting program. After the 12-month program, Kraft Heinz Trainees will be placed into functions across our company where they can add immediate value.
Profile - Basic Qualifications:
- University Bachelor or Master degree, graduated on or after 2023 from any subject area
- Maximum working experience: 1 year after graduation
- Strong proficiency in English and French is required
We are looking for talent who are:
- Consumer obsessed
- Dare to do better every day
- Champion great people
- Demand diversity
- Do the right thing
- Own it!
This is how we win:
- We work as a team- Energize self and others
- We Inspire excellence- Model lifelong learning, curiosity and creativity
- We navigate our future- Be courageous in the face of uncertainty
Our offer:
- Permanent contract at the start of the Trainee Program
- Intensive training and exposure to different Business Units
- Business support and mentorship throughout the program
- Highly competitive benefits
The Recruitment Process
Step 1: Application and Pymetrics Games
Step 2: Pymetrics Video Interview
Step 3: Virtual Trainee Interview and Business Interview
Step 4: Assessment Day (approx. April)
Step 5: Leadership Panel Interview
Location(s)
Paris
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!
Why Work With Us
Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.
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Kraft Heinz Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We also believe providing a more flexible and agile model is essential in today’s workplace. A majority of our office-based employees will be able to work remotely for up to two days each week.
