Compliance Intern- Summer 2027

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

Meijer offers an 11-week internship program that challenges interns to deliver innovative solutions to real projects that impact the business. Throughout the course of the internship experience, we deliver diverse personal and professional development opportunities that further develop skillsets that can be implemented both during and after the program. The internship program will allow for interaction with other interns and Meijer senior leaders.

The internship program includes:

• Challenging and impactful projects
• Final presentations delivered to senior executives
• Executive speaker series
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Networking and community events to drive engagement
• Intern roadshow highlighting key areas of the business

What you will be doing as a Compliance Intern:

The Meijer Compliance Department’s mission is to listen and partner with our fellow Meijer team members to achieve their business goals using proactive, strategic, and creative solutions.

The corporate compliance intern will learn from a variety of practical, real-world corporate compliance experiences including the following:

• Opportunity to support the team in one or more of the following compliance areas.
  • Environmental
  • Food Safety
  • Workplace Safety
  • Recall
  • Product Compliance
  • Fuel Compliance
  • Compliance with state and federal food nutrition programs (SNAP/WIC)
  • Alcohol & Tobacco compliance
• Effectively communicate & project manage in a fast-paced legal environment
• Develop knowledge in the history & evolution of corporate compliance programs
• Learn how to design & evaluate a modern corporate compliance program
• Conduct research and provide recommendations regarding latest government enforcement trends in an emerging legal area – responsible sourcing
• Conduct risk-based analysis of data
• Gain executive-level presentation skills and present in an internal meeting
• Learn the specialized skillset needed to become a compliance professional - including the art of building business relationships and providing strategic advice

Qualifications:

• Progress toward a bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, economics, finance, management, or a related field
• A very high level of internal integrity
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent reading and research skills
• Independent thinker, with strong critical reasoning and problem-solving skills – ability to thrive working in gray areas
• Self-starter, able to manage ambiguity and courage to try new things
• Capable of building new relationships and possessing emotional intelligence
• Comfort in a corporate environment, including being amongst senior business executives
• Dedicated to exceeding customer expectations
• A passion to compete
• Microsoft Office experience, with the flexibility and desire to learn additional technology skills for using varied systems and tools