STR MGMT/LEADERSHIP ESSENTALS INTERN
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Job overview
Kroger’s 12-week internship provides an overview of store operations, marketing, merchandising, purchasing, supply chain management, financial analysis, and human resources. Interns job shadow store management, complete a retail project, and work as part of a team. The program includes training at multiple locations, including retail stores, distribution, and/or a division office, and concludes with a project presentation to division leadership.
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Full job description
Complete a 12-week program designed to provide overview of store operations, marketing, merchandising, purchasing, supply chain management, financial analysis and human resources. The internship also offers job shadowing with store management, a designated retail project and the experience of working as part of an effective team. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Gain understanding of a favorable customer shopping experience, the importance of associate engagement in customer service/relations and how to role model the highest level of customer service.
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Gain understanding of how a store manager leads teams in the planning, implementation and execution of merchandising and operating initiatives.
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Gain understanding of how as store manager develops action plans and communications to store associates.
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Training at multiple locations inclusive of retail stores, distribution and/or division office
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Complete special assignments, as requested.
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Curate a cumulative retail project and present to division leadership.
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Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
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Enrolled in an accredited college or university.
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Excellent oral and written communication skills.
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Ability to navigate change and respond to challenges with a positive demeanor.
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Demonstrate initiative and to work independently, as well as collaboratively, in a team environment.
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Commitment to providing superior customer service.
Desired
- Involvement in leadership and community activities
How this job compares
Set against the 2,634 open Retail Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$57–71K/yr577 salary ranges
- US median$20–24/hr839 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 53 open Retail Management jobs in Kentucky and 2,634 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Thorntons LLC8 open
- Dollar General7 open
- Menards, Inc.5 open
- Experience
- Retail Management postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (1,228 postings).
- Education
- 179 of the 2,634 open Retail Management jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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