Change Enablement Analytics Graduate Internship - Summer 2025

Our mission at Whole Foods Market is to nourish people and the planet, but also- future talent. We are excited to offer our 2025 Summer Internship Program to purpose-driven students seeking to make a difference in their work and in their community. Our internship program is based in Austin, Texas, down the street from our original Whole Foods Market store. Our interns don’t get us coffee; instead, they enjoy free coffee and tea while working on meaningful projects that impact our internal and external stakeholders.

About the Team: 

Change Analysts play an integral role in supporting the long-term adoption of all the work supported by the Change Enablement Team. They conduct detailed discovery and gap analysis that is foundational for building, executing, and monitoring of plans. They use data driven decision making to provide insight into TM adoption, sentiment, and barriers to adoption. While the work may be technical in nature, they must possess the ability to communicate the findings in a way with the CE Team and project Teams to drive action. This role supports so many people, projects, and programs, and we need someone that can earn trust, manage their work effectively and with excellence, thinks critically about the work, challenges our status quo, and can be a great strategic partner. 

Intern Responsibilities May Include: 

• Provides Business Process Improvement (BPI) support within a defined organizational area or for assigned processes or process components. 
• Engages with functional / operational leaders to understand business objectives, challenges, and areas targeted for improvement. 
• Partners with internal and/or external BPI experts to:  
• Develop improvement objectives, project parameters, and resource requirements, 
• Conduct thorough business diagnostics to identify, quantify, and prioritize specific change targets, 
• Analyze work flow processes and identify issues, roadblocks, or areas for effectiveness or efficiency improvement, 
• Develop recommendations to streamline, reduce associated cost, enhance effectiveness, improve workflows, or improve the customer experience outcomes of targeted processes, 
• Deliver recommendations to process owners / stakeholders, 
• Provide necessary education and training, 
• Follow-up to ensure enhanced processes are applied as designed, modified where needed, and evaluated. 
• Ensures adherence to the company’s principles, values, policies, and guidelines. 
• Supports team projects as assigned. 

You Will Bring: 

• Understands and able to apply standard BPI methodology and tools. 
• Solid statistics background. 
• Identifies and pursues process improvement opportunities based on risk controls, customer experience, efficiencies, and other business-focused factors. 
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and listening. 
• With guidance, responds to questions and presents information to internal and external clients in one-on-one settings. 
• Tailors communication approach to specific situations and audiences. 
• Supports team and cross-functional projects within defined area of responsibility. 
• Impacts the quality of own work and that of the team. 
• Works as a fully competent Team Member. 
• Maintains positive working relationships with supported functional stakeholders. 
• Applies basic research, information gathering, and analytical skills to:  
• Select appropriate alternatives from defined options, 
• Collect required documentation and verify conformance with standards, 
• Assess accuracy of detailed information. 
• Handles detailed, structured problems; identifying roadblocks to task completion. 
• Uses existing procedures to resolve standard problems. 
• Understands the strategy, goals, and objectives of the company, business unit, and/or project. 
• Identifies alignment / misalignment of the team’s project goals with the larger organizational strategy, goals, and objectives. 
• Understands the WFM product mix, supply base, and retail operations. 

Education & Experience: 

• Currently pursuing a masters' degree, Data Analytics preferred. 

Internship Program Details: 

Our Summer 2025 Internships are paid for 10-weeks, full-time (40 hours/week) between June 2, 2025-August 8, 2025. The internships will be based in Austin, Texas on a hybrid schedule and are not open to remote candidates at this time. 

Program Highlights:  

• Weekly Summer Event Series: Weekly events for interns to connect with one another and get immersed in the Whole Foods Market culture. Previous events have included distribution center tours, cheese tastings, volunteering at the Central Texas Food Bank, supplier visits, women in leadership panel and more! 
• Intern Buddy: Opportunity to be paired with a Whole Foods Market team member outside of our team that can be a go to resource during your summer. 
• Team Member Coffee Chats: Network 1:1 with Whole Foods Market team members in your field or area of interest for a 20 – 30-minute coffee chat. 
• Internship Expo: End of internship presentations where you can share what projects you worked on during the summer with the entire company! 

Application Review: Our internship applications will be open in September and October 2024. We will review applications on a rolling basis so next steps and interviews may not be communicated until November or December 2024.