Intern Retail Operations

G-star; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 5,700 - 7,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Clothing budget

Lunch provided

International environment

Diverse team

Job summary

G-Star RAW is offering a Retail Operations internship at our Amsterdam HQ. You’ll analyze and optimize store policies, procedures and communication across European stores to improve daily operations.

This is a fast-moving, international environment where you gain real-world experience in retail. You'll support the European stores, learn about stock, POS, cash and asset management, and help coordinate HQ-to-store communication.

Qualifications

• You are enrolled at a Dutch university or college.
• If you are a non-EU student you must be in possession of a mandatory internship assignment from your university or college.
• You are already living in the Netherlands and prepared to have a Dutch health insurance and sponsor your own travel costs.

Responsibilities

• Updating store information into various systems and databases, ensuring reporting of all stores is directly processed and visible to relevant team members.
• Keeping the total retail portfolio overview up-to-date.
• Screening and improving internal policies and procedures.
• Organizing relevant forms and documents that correspond to company standards.
• Reviewing, updating and formatting guidelines and instruction manuals.
• Investigating new or different communication tools.
• Organizing retail operations calendars
• Supporting employee onboarding processes and arrangements.

Skills

Retail enthusiasm

Proactive mindset

MS Office

English communication

Education

Enrolled at a Dutch university/college

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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 a 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.

Here’s what we’ll do together:

Just imagine – as our new Retail Operations intern, you will help us in analyzing and optimizing policies, procedures and communication from and to the stores to improve the store operations. You will be part of an amazing Retail team where you gain actual working experience in a fast moving, innovating international environment.

In this internship, you will experience what it means to work in a Retail team and support our European stores from our international headquarters in Amsterdam. The primary focus of the Retail Operations team is to provide support to the G-Star RAW retail and Outlet stores on day-to-day operations. This includes training/ coaching on company policies and procedures, stock-, POS-system-, cash-, asset management and any other tasks as required by the retail management team. The internship will focus on how to utilize the communication flows between our HQ and the local store teams. At G-Star, you will get the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that is leading in denim innovation and sustainability.

Your tasks & responsibilities:

• Updating store information into various systems and databases, ensuring that reporting of all stores is directly processed and visible to relevant team members.
• Keeping the total retail portfolio overview up-to-date.
• Screening and improving internal policies and procedures.
• Organizing relevant forms and documents that correspond to company standards.
• Reviewing, updating and formatting guidelines and instruction manuals.
• Investigating new or different communication tools.
• Organizing retail operations calendars
• Supporting employee onboarding processes and arrangements.

Here’s what you bring to the table:

• You have strong affinity and ambition for retail, fashion and lifestyle industry.
• You are a pro-active, energetic and driven intern who wants to learn by doing.
• Experience with MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Affinity with systems and technology.
• During the time of your internship you are enrolled at a Dutch university or college.
• If you are a non-EU student you must be in possession of a mandatory internship assignment from your university or college.
• You are already living in the Netherlands and (you are prepared to) have a Dutch health insurance and willing to sponsor your own daily travel costs.

So..

• Are you a Bachelor/Master in (international) business/ retail related education & are available full-time (40hrs/week) for a period of 5-6 months starting in January/February 2027Then you’ve got our full attention.

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

What does G-Star bring to the table:

Next to a compensation of €600 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 and 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

Found your dream internship?

• We will thoroughly review your application.
• We have an international community at GStar, so please apply in English.
• When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will call you for a chat and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we will congratulate you on your brand new Internship and discuss the next steps. We look forward to see you on the onboarding day!