2025 Coles Retail and Consumer Products 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.

Discover our Agribusiness and Own Brand functions:

Agribusiness graduates will develop a deep understanding of the Australian meat supply chain for Coles, working with farmers, processors, and retail packers to deliver exceptional livestock products. Seeing your products from paddock to plate is quite an experience and provides immediate responsibility and opportunities to make a difference to yourself, your Business Unit, and the overall customer experience. All action from the get-go!

In our Coles Own Brand team, we spend our time eating, designing and developing great products to inspiring our customers.  We collaborate across the whole business, consulting central teams and subject matter experts, as well as with our suppliers in a ‘winning together’ way. As a Graduate part of the Coles Brand team, you will learn how to develop innovative and world-class products working with local and international suppliers and ensuring we meet our Quality and Sustainable commitments. 

The two-year Graduate Program commences in February 2025. 

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 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.