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Internship: Management Secretary

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Assignment type: Internship

Start date: February 2023

Assignment duration: 3 – 5 months

Location: Veghel

Educational level: HBO

Desired study: Management Assistant (must have some internship experience)

Assignment

During this internship you will mainly support the LT (Leadership Team) managers and their assistants. You work in a small team with professionals. You take over as many recurring tasks as possible. You are also the contact person for the managers and colleagues. Next to that you will also communicate with people outside the organization. It is your job to help these people as much as possible. As an assistant you are always aware of what is going on in the company, you think along with the managers and you come up with solutions. You are the spider in Vanderlande's web.

Department

The direction for the BU Supply is captured in its vision and mission.

Our Vision: As a reliable business partner we contribute to achieving the company strategy by creating a sustainable competitive advantage in supply throughout the solution lifecycle.

Our Mission: We take ownership of global supply, working closely together with the business to meet customer demands while leveraging synergies in supply to maximize value add.

BU Supply delivers goods and services to customers and projects – on time and complete, with the right quality and at the right costs. To fulfill the business needs of the customers and projects, in the execution of supply management, we want to be reliable, competitive and flexible. The BU Supply is a strong business partner to the CCs.

As a reliable partner, we are transparent and proactive in communication. We deliver on time, complete and at the right quality. We make sure that we can secure supply towards projects. As a competitive partner, we work towards short lead times, a competitive cost level, we add value in the activities we do.

We are innovative in supply solutions and sustainable in what we deliver. As a flexible partner, we take care of effective exception handling and we are responsive to changing business needs. We support the key account focus and platform driven approach.

Tasks / Responsibilities

No day is the same in the BU Supply Support department and you certainly don’t need to be bored.

  • Step 1: In the first few weeks, you receive a lot of information about Vanderlande & meet a lot of people.
  • Step 2: In order to get to know the organisation, you will have more interaction with your direct colleagues and observe their working methods, learn which managers they work for and who they are.
  • Step 3: In this phase, you are given tasks such as creating a holiday planning for the department. By doing this, you get to know the organizational structure of the business unit. You will also be delivering mail, a task that will really help you get to know the departments.
  • Step 4: You are given more and more tasks such as scheduling meetings, booking conference rooms, making catering reservations, entering OneNote updates and posting MS Team messages within MS Team BU Supply the Netherlands and BU Supply Worldwide.
  • Step 5: You will be more familiar with how the company works. You will get more tasks and responsibilities, such as contacting colleagues in the Netherlands and abroad, contacting external companies and leading small meetings. Your colleagues will also get to know better and ask you more and more questions.
  • Step 6: More and more tasks are added, you start working on projects and support your own managers. This is also the stage where you start working more independently and start looking for answers yourself.
  • Step 7: Many people know you and you know many people; you are now a full employee. You are the spider in Vanderlande's web.

Your profile

We are looking for an eager management assistant intern who enjoys communicating in English and working in a dedicated team.

Vanderlande is the global market leader for value-added logistic process automation at airports, and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems move 4.2 billion pieces of luggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in 600 airports including 14 of the world’s top 20.

Logistics
Veghel
6,000 employees