Intern, Asset Protection Data Insights

The Home Depot

5d•$31,600 - $35,400•Onsite

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. 2026 Summer Student Internship/Co-op Opportunity – Intern, Asset Protection Data Insights About the co-op/internship program: Looking to turn classroom learning into real-world experience? The Home Depot Canada Internship/Co-op Program is your chance to apply what you’ve studied in a dynamic, hands-on environment. Over 16 weeks, you’ll work on projects that make a real impact, sharpen your skills, and build confidence for your future career. Program highlights include: Comprehensive Onboarding: Gain insights into our business operations, organizational culture, and core values. Strategic Projects: Address genuine business challenges, explore innovative approaches, and contribute meaningful solutions. Project Presentation: Share your findings and project outcomes with senior leadership. Professional Development Sessions: Participate in weekly sessions designed to enhance skillsets, reinforce company values, and provide perspectives from leaders across the organization. Networking Opportunities: Establish connections with mentors and peers who will support your professional growth throughout the program. Duration: May 4 – August 21st, 2026 # of positions available: 1 Locations: Toronto Store Support Center - 1 Concorde Gate, North York. In office Monday – Friday, with potential on-site visits to other GTA offices/stores Join Our Team: The Home Depot Asset Protection team safeguards company assets, people, and reputation through proactive, data-driven strategies. Their mission focuses on reducing losses from theft and fraud, ensuring safety, and maintaining compliance across retail and supply chain operations. The team uses advanced analytics, technology, and strong internal and external partnerships to identify reduce loss and risk to our locations. Job Summary: The intern’s work will significantly advance The Home Depot Asset Protection team’s ability to safeguard assets and optimize inventory management. By auditing existing data points and engineering critical features, the intern will create a predictive shrink model that unifies disparate data sources. This model, once developed and rigorously tested, will be integrated with visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI to provide field and divisional leaders with clear, actionable views of inventory risk. The goal is to move shrink from a lagging indicator develop it as a leading indicator of risk. By identifying and understanding risks as they develop we can executed targeted mitigation strategies to protect margins, eliminate loss.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a degree or diploma in Business, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative/technical field
Proficiency working with technical tools such as SQL, BigQuery, Excel, Python, Power BI, MLM models
Experience in data modeling and forecasting, predictive analytics
Experience with stakeholder collaboration, prioritization, communication, including presentation skills
The successful student will be currently enrolled in a Canadian accredited university or college throughout the period of the Internship/Co-op program.
In addition, you must be legally entitled to work in Canada by way of Canadian citizenship, permanent residency, or a valid study/work permit.

Responsibilities

Create a predictive shrink model by auditing existing data points and feature engineering critical features to bridge disparate data sources.
Develop and stress test models and use a supporting tool (Tableau/Power BI) to translate the output into a simplified at-a-glance view of inventory risk for field and divisional leaders.
Drive On Shelf availability to support our fast and frictionless imperative and drive an engaging and effective customer experience
Coaching and mentoring
Performance feedback, leadership, and development opportunities
Full-time health and dental benefits, and matching donation program