2025 Coles Legal and People & Culture (HR) Graduate Program

About the Program

From day one as a Coles graduate, you’ll feel the connection your work has to our purpose, to "helping Australians eat and live better every day". You will be accountable for making decisions in providing food, drink and home solutions that are delicious, sustainable and healthy for our customers and ensuring to deliver a consistent experience for our customers every day, both in-store and online.

Our Store Support Centre (SSC), based in Hawthorn East in Melbourne, is the engine room of Coles Group and a dynamic and rewarding place to work.

Why become a Coles Graduate?

At Coles, we understand that when you’re included, trusted and supported by leaders who genuinely care, you can do your best work for the team feeling like you belong. 

During the two-year program, you’ll be working on real deliverables with clear ownership and accountability as you learn and grow through functional rotations, a tailored development program and a tight-knit support network. 

You will also be able to work in cross-functional groups to complete an Innovation Project, where the top teams present to our Executive team on a genuine business challenge. We will support your passion and graduate journey with experiences and opportunities, with each rotation expanding your knowledge as you continue to discover Coles and yourself. 

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Our People & Culture Team work hard to create an inclusive workplace driven by support and empowerment. We focus on bringing out the best in our people, enhancing overall employee experience through ongoing process development, helpful tools, innovative tech and ongoing career opportunities. 

As a People & Culture Graduate, you will have plenty of opportunities to influence the future of Coles through developing a diverse team, recruiting top talent or enabling flexible work environments, making Coles the best place to work for our teams and ensuring our customers come first.

Our Legal team supports all facets of the Coles and Liquor businesses. Our aim is to be trusted advisors and strategic enablers, delivering services that align with business objectives and protect against legal and reputational risk. We take pride in actively partnering with the business, and in and strategy and are commercially relevant.

Our Safety team ensure that team members remain safe whilst at work and that our customers are provided with a safe shopping experience and as a food retailer, ensure the safe handling of our food products.  As a Safety Graduate, you will do this by partnering with all Business Units, Store Development and Operations to ensure all new concepts and innovations land safely in stores and we engineer out identified risks. If things do go wrong, you will also participate in investigations to understand the root cause and what controls can be implemented to eliminate the risk. 

Applications will open Wednesday 6 March 2024 and will close Thursday 4 April 2024 midnight, APPLY NOW! 

Eligibility Criteria: You’ll be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or hold a permanent residency at the time of application. For our Store Support Centre Graduate Program, you’ll have completed a Bachelor's Degree before commencing the program.