Supply Chain HR Intern

For this role as a Supply Chain HR Intern, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

• Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Job Description

As an intern in our Supply Chain HR team, you will help define how our factories in Growth & Emerging Markets are organised and staffed. Our GEM region was recently created from three separate clusters, so organisation structures and staffing levels differ widely between sites. You will work on global blueprint and FTE standards for blue-collar and white-collar roles, as part of our Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operating Systems. You will work with HR and Supply Chain leaders across several countries and see how a global manufacturing organisation makes decisions on cost, efficiency and talent. Your work will be used by our factories and will shape how we organise them in the future.

• Collect and consolidate organisation, role and headcount data from factories across the GEM region
• Analyse blue-collar and white-collar FTE levels against volumes, shifts and site complexity to find gaps and patterns
• Benchmark sites to describe what good looks like
• Build an FTE model and draft blueprint standards for blue-collar and white-collar roles
• Test and refine the standards with local HR teams and plant leaders
• Present findings and recommendations to Supply Chain and HR leadership.

Within the European Supply Chain team, you will support the communication, high-performing team development, and change management agenda. Following recent structural changes and the formation of new teams, you will contribute to organisational change initiatives and help build one integrated, end-to-end Supply Chain team:

• Support the preparation and coordination of events, workshops, and training sessions
• Collaborate with HR Services, Mobility and Data & Analytics teams to ensure effective employee support and accurate, timely updates in core HR systems during organisational changes
• Contribute to the functional communications agenda
• Support the Supply Chain ambassador programme

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a master’s or final-year bachelor’s programme in HR, organisational psychology, operations management or business
• Strong analytical skills and advanced Excel
• Interest in manufacturing and supply chain. Factory exposure is a plus
• Structured communicator who builds relationships across cultures and levels
• Fluent English; an additional language is a plus
• Self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and owns the outcome

Additional Information

A pre-employment check can be part of the recruitment process.