Product Structure & Data Model Internship
About us
Viking is a leading European workplace-solutions company headquartered in Venlo, where around 350 employees representing more than 25 nationalities come together with a shared ambition: to help businesses create better, more productive workplaces.
As part of the RAJA Group, Viking combines decades of expertise with an entrepreneurial and forward-thinking mindset. We provide businesses across Europe with office products, workplace equipment, and solutions designed around the evolving needs of today's working world. At the heart of everything we do is a strong focus on customer satisfaction, service, quality, and continuous innovation.
What really makes Viking stand out is our people. With an international team, we bring together different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. This helps us work better together, come up with new ideas, and understand our customers from different points of view. We value people who take initiative, stay open to new ideas, and are always looking for ways to improve.
Start your professional journey at Viking and become part of an international team where experience meets fresh thinking, collaboration drives progress, and there is always room to learn, contribute, and grow.
What to expect during your internship
Join our Master Data Management department and gain experience at the intersection of marketing, data, and technology. As an intern within our Product Structure & Technology team, you will support the team in maintaining and improving the way product data is structured and managed. You will gain hands-on experience with product data models, classifications, hierarchies and relationships, while learning how business requirements are translated into practical data solutions.
You will contribute to activities such as analyzing product data, identifying data quality and process improvement opportunities, supporting data modelling and documentation, and assisting with projects related to product structure, taxonomy, data migration and MDM system improvements.
This internship offers an excellent opportunity to develop your analytical, technical and project management skills, work with real business data and collaborate with colleagues across Purchasing & Assortment, Compliance, Content Factory, BI and IT in a dynamic, international environment. It is an opportunity to turn your academic knowledge into practical experience while gaining insight into how data enables and supports a modern international business.
Your Responsibilities
- Design, maintain and continuously improve product data models, product structures, hierarchies, attributes and relationships.
- Translate business requirements into clear and scalable functional data model solutions.
- Assess the impact of proposed changes to the data model and product structure across products, processes, systems and stakeholders.
- Take on partial project management responsibilities and support additional projects within the team related to product data cleansing, product structure redesign, and data migration activities where required.
- Gather, analyse and challenge business requirements to ensure that proposed solutions address the underlying business need.
- Support the definition and implementation of data quality rules, validation mechanisms and governance standards.
- Ensure adherence to agreed MDM standards, principles, naming conventions and modelling guidelines.
- Monitor data quality and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
- Identify data quality issues and root causes related to product structures and data models and coordinate their resolution.
- Work with Excel and XML to manage, organize, and analyze data
- Use data analysis to identify trends, inconsistencies, inefficiencies and opportunities for automation or process improvement.
- Support process documentation and process mapping to improve and standardize ways of working
- Create and maintain process visualizations using Microsoft Visio
- Collaborate with different departments to improve processes and maintain the quality of product information
- You are a 3rd or 4th year Bachelor student studying Information Technology, Business IT, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Science, Digital Business, or a related field
- You are proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Visio
- Experience with data analysis, querying or data transformation tools is a plus
- You have an interest in data management, modelling concepts, data structures, hierarchies, attributes, product relationships and classifications, systems, process documentation, and process mapping
- Strong analytical skills and a data-driven mindset, with the ability to analyse large and complex datasets
- You are comfortable working with large amounts of information and have a keen eye for detail
- You have good analytical and problem-solving skills
- You are organized and interested in developing your project management skills
- You are proactive, curious, structured and solution-oriented, with a strong focus on data quality and continuous improvement.
- You have excellent spoken and written English skills
- You are available full-time from February 2027 for a duration of 5-6 months
- A unique opportunity to develop your skills in an international environment
- A competitive internship allowance of €500 gross per month, plus a travel allowance (if applicable)
- Approximately 15 days of holiday during a 5-month internship (3 days per internship month)
- Excellent guidance and support from experienced colleagues
- An internship program focused on your personal and professional development
- Hands-on experience in Marketing Operations, product information management, data processes, and process improvement
Click on the 'Apply' button to submit your application.
If you have any questions, we are happy to help you.
Please reach out to:
Alexandra Dinu
HR Recruitment Intern
nl-jobs@vikingoffice.eu
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