Graduation: Strengthening manager effectiveness workforce insights

Graduation:
Strengthening manager effectiveness through workforce insights

Assignment type:
Graduation.

Start date:

February 2027. Assignment duration: 6 months.

Location:

Veghel. Education level:
Bachelor / Master. Desired study:
Human resource management, Business administration, Organizational psychology or related field. Language:
Dutch / English.

Are you passionate about turning workforce data into real business impact? Every day, managers at Vanderlande make key decisions about recruitment, talent development, performance, and workforce planning. While we offer rich reports and self-service tools, having access to data is only the first step. The real challenge is empowering managers to translate these insights into confident, smart decisions throughout the employee lifecycle.

In this strategic graduation assignment, you will dive into the manager experience to uncover decision-making challenges, capability gaps, and barriers to tool adoption. You will design practical recommendations and a future-state vision to boost manager effectiveness. From enhancing solutions like the Manager Hub and Report Shop to creating engaging learning interventions and change strategies, your work will directly shape data-informed leadership across Vanderlande.

You will join the Global Specialists team within Global HR Services. This team shapes and improves HR services, processes, and solutions to support employees and managers worldwide. Working closely with the Distribution domain, managers, and HR Partners, you will explore how to better enable leaders in making informed people decisions. This role offers practical experience in organizational development, manager enablement, and change management within a global company.

• Map key people decisions throughout the employee lifecycle and assess how current HR tools and workforce insights support them
• Conduct interviews, surveys, and workshops with managers and HR stakeholders to identify support needs and barriers to data usage
• Analyze process, capability, and adoption gaps regarding data interpretation and decision-making
• Benchmark best practices in manager enablement and data-informed leadership
• Develop practical recommendations and a future-state design to improve manager effectiveness and tool adoption
• Create an implementation roadmap and present findings to HR leadership and business stakeholders

• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills with an interest in organizational effectiveness and data-informed decision-making
• Enjoys stakeholder engagement, conducting research, and translating insights into practical recommendations
• Comfortable working independently and collaborating with stakeholders across a global organization
• Experience with qualitative research, change management, continuous improvement, or project work is preferred
• Mandatory enrolment to a Dutch Education System & resident of The Netherlands

• A monthly internship allowance (based on a 40-hour work week):
  Bachelor: €500 per month Master: €550 per month
• Full commuting allowance, including public transport, depending on whether you have access to free public transport or not
• On-site health center with gym
• Active employee communities and initiatives
• Excellent company restaurant and barista coffee bar

Every day, millions of people rely on Vanderlande without even knowing it. From baggage checked in at the airport to parcels on their way to someone’s doorstep, our automation solutions help keep the world moving. Vanderlande designs, delivers, and supports automation technology, operational software, and lifecycle services for leading airports and parcel operations worldwide. Across more than 100 countries, our customers rely on us to keep their operations moving reliably, efficiently, and sustainably.

Behind every solution are the people who make it happen. At Vanderlande, how we work matters just as much as what we deliver. Our values, Every Day Better, We Care, and Team Play, guide how we collaborate, support each other, and create value for our customers. Here, you can work with colleagues across disciplines and cultures, contribute to work that makes a difference, and build your future in an organisation that invites you to grow.

Explore what is possible at Vanderlande and discover how you can make an impact. Aspire. Grow. Achieve. Together.