Supply Chain Intern

GrandVision is a global leader in optical retailing and delivers high quality and affordable eye care to more and more customers around the world. The high quality eye care offered by GrandVision includes a wide range of services provided by its vision expert, prescription glasses including frames and lenses, contact lenses and contact lens care products, and sunglasses both plain and with prescription lenses. These products are offered through leading optical retail banners which operate more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. GrandVision serves its customers in over 7,400 stores and with more than 37,000 employees which are proving every day that in EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE.

Some key figures:

• 7,406 stores in more than 40 countries
• 30 retail banners
• over 800,000 store visitors per day
• ~17 million prescription glasses sold
• Revenue 2019: EUR 4,037 million
• EBITDA 2019: EUR 604 million
• Over 37,000 employees

Our vision is to provide high quality and affordable eye care to more and more people around the world. By doing so, GrandVision aspires to help them realize their full potential in life.

Developing Careers & Potential

Within all GrandVision companies we recruit for a career, not just a job. We are passionate about customer satisfaction and develop our people to look for growth potential within the job and within the company. Our preference is to always promote internally where possible. So, wherever people start, there’s always somewhere else to go. We strive for continuous improvement and our new recruits help us to further raise the future potential of our company. Our whole business is full of people who have gone on to achieve a successful career through experiencing a variety of different roles in different locations and area of our business. We continually support and develop our people who have the desire, ambition and potential to grow.

With customers, stores and employees located in over 40 countries, GrandVision shows diversity to be at the core of its success. Grandvision is a global company proud and committed to be an equal opportunity employer.

An exciting internship opportunity for young talent who are preparing themselves for a career in Supply Chain. Work closely with the operations team members and make meaningful contributions to projects and daily work, while learning from subject-matter experts about effective management of fulfilment processes.

You will be involved in various activities during your internship, i.e. purchase order management, supplier meetings & negotiations, creating clear work instructions as well as the claim process & resolutions.

Job Title

Supply Chain Intern

Reports to

Global RFH Flow Manager

Responsibilities

The core responsibility of the Supply Chain Intern will be:

• To support the daily operation in ongoing business scenarios, projects and various tasks.
• Support individual team members in reviewing data and publishing daily reports.
• Involve in the Purchase Order management processes and meetings with suppliers to follow up on various metrics (On Time & In Full).
• Learn about supplier relationship management and work closely with our teams and suppliers to improve the E2E processes.
• Support the claim process and claim resolution by communicating with various stakeholders to obtain information.
• Support the departments housekeeping activities and learn the basics of process / quality management.
• Prepare and review work instructions under supervision of other team members.
• Contribute to the weekly follow-ups of delivery discrepancies leading to payment blocks.
• Understand the business processes and support business improvements.
• Update data & information consolidation for the ongoing projects and support where possible.

Required qualifications/level of education

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in supply chain or technical discipline (or in final stage of studies)

Key skills, knowledge and experience

• Very good Microsoft Office skills
• Knowledge of SAP preferable
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly adaptable to new environments; with a natural ability to embrace learning and develop through experience. High level of energy and ambition to realise a positive impact
• Flexible in approach
• Organizing and prioritizing skills
• Cultural awareness
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Fluency in English

Core competencies/ Personal attributes

• Team player and cooperative
• Hands-on and pragmatic
• Self-motivated and pro-active

More about GrandVision: www.grandvision.com
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grandvision

Find our Annual Report here: http://annualreport.grandvision.com

NB. If you have not heard back from us after 27 days, please consider your application not to be succesful.