Intern Purchase & Planning

We Are Denim Heads.

We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA.

At G-Star, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow.

Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.

Join the denim heads making raw denim.

NOTE: You need to have work authorization/study permit in The Netherlands – no immigration support is available for internships.

Here's what we'll do together:

Just imagine –

As our new Purchasing & Planning Intern, you will be helping the purchase team to procure the G-Star materials and products within the correct deadlines to ensure ready products will arrive on time at G-Star stores and customers worldwide.

During this internship you get a varied range of tasks to gain a solid understanding of the purchase & planning function. You will play a vital role in ensuring accurate purchase information is available to make sure the purchase operations run smoothly. Together with the purchase team and our vendors worldwide you will optimize the procurement planning to achieve a consistently strong delivery performance.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Place purchase orders via the SAP system.
• ​Book raw materials with the nominated suppliers.
• Analyze the delivery performance.
• Monitor raw materials stock levels and avoid unnecessary build up.

What you bring to the table:

• A keen Interest in supply chain and numbers.
• SAP? Excel? Keen to learn or already know it.
• You are proactive, eager to learn, reliable and precise.
• Deadlines? You can manage these!
• Supplier management you want to learn.
• You are available full-time (40hrs per week) for a period of 6 months starting in July/August 2024.
• You are enrolled at university or college for the full length of the internship, in the Netherlands or within the EU.
• If you are studying within the EU, you are in possession of a mandatory internship assignment from your school.
• You are already living in the Netherlands or able to relocate quickly, and have a BSN (or in process of getting one).
• Fashion? You live and breathe it!
• Add a Bachelor/Master and and you’ve got our full attention.

Finally, do you have strong personality and excellent verbal and written communication skills in English? We’d love to meet you!

What we bring to the table:

Next to a compensation of €600 per month for your internship, working at G-Star brings so many perks and exciting opportunities, we don’t know where to begin… How about:

• An awesome and diverse team that collaborates to inspire
• A work environment that offers room for fun, inspiration and innovation
• A clothing budget of €400 to buy the latest G-Star items!
• To keep up the greatness we also offer you a healthy, fresh, and delicious lunch in our HQ in Amsterdam.
• If you don’t have an OV student travel card, we will cover your travel expenses.
• You will also enjoy two paid days of leave per month!

What will happen next?

During this job application, we will ask you to play a couple of short neuroscientific games. These games provide you with the opportunity to showcase your potential, talents, and personality.

• As a result, we can ensure equal opportunities for everyone who applies, by evaluating everyone based on objective, scientifically proven insights rather than gut feeling.
• As we value personal growth and transparency, we will make sure you receive your results on the games as well.
• ​When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will get in touch with you and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-Star employee store.

Good luck!