Internship Recruitment Day: Retail, Wholesale & Travel
RitualsJob Description
Are you ready to kickstart your career in the dynamic world of retail, wholesale and travel? Don't miss our Internship Recruitment Day, where you'll have the opportunity to learn more about the teams and join speed-dating interviews to find your perfect internship match for September 2025!
Our Global Retail Department is responsible for more than 1200 stores worldwide and focusses on optimizing performance and processes around it. They are the linking pin between 12 local offices and the Central Head Office in Amsterdam.
Our Wholesale and Travel Retail Department works together with top perfumeries like Douglas, Sephora, Boots and Kicks, prestigious department stores such as Galeria, El Cortes Ingles, Bijenkorf and Ahlens. With 3,500 wholesale locations and shops at over 550 airports, planes, cruises and ferries, Wholesale & Travel Retail can add that extra bit of luxury and comfort to every moment of our customers’ journeys, near and far.
For September 2025 we are looking for new interns, including 5 positions within Retail, 2 within Wholesale and 1 within Travel. Are you high on energy, ready to learn a lot and be part of this amazing department? Check out the different positions below.
- Retail Training and Development
- Retail Commercial Development
- Retail Operational Excellence
- Retail Partnerships
- Retail Communication
- Travel Retail Department
- Wholesale Travel & Retail – Operations
- Wholesale Digital Marketing Team
1. Retail Training and Development
Our International Training and Development Department at Rituals plays a key role in shaping the skills and knowledge of our global workforce. Our team is dedicated to crafting comprehensive training programs and initiatives that empower our employees worldwide.
We collaborate closely with local training teams across various regions to tailor our programs to meet the specific needs of each market while ensuring alignment with our company's overarching goals and values.
Are you pursuing a degree in HR, L&D, or a related field (preferred but not mandatory) and are passionate about developing talent and driving success through training, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll do
- Assist to develop specific training programs, whether this is online or offline.
- Provide support with projects, video, and photoshoots, be involved in storyboard & script writing, build, and update online learning modules and coordinate the translation process.
- Support with the international training & development mailbox making sure all our learners have access to the right content on our digital learning platform.
- Additionally, we offer a fast paced and innovative environment so each day will bring new and exciting projects and the potential to learn and give input into our ever-growing business.
2. Retail Commercial Development
The Commercial Development Team is responsible for the development of the Commercial Cycle strategy and calendars for all Rituals shops worldwide. These plans are shared with stores every campaign period, so they have the right tools to perform at their best and offer top-notch service to customers. Collaborating closely with teams in marketing activation, promotions, in-store communication, visual merchandising, format and design, and training and development, we ensure seamless execution of our strategies.
What you’ll do
- Supporting the development of the commercial briefings and calendars for all markets worldwide
- Assisting in the continuous support of our Mystery Shopper program and and translating the data into actionable insights
- Supporting commercial and operational projects (e.g. Commercial Store challenges, Holiday Season)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
3. Retail Operational Excellence
During this internship, you will provide support to the Retail Operational Excellence team. You will report to the Team Lead of Retail Operational Excellence and will have a supportive role within the team. The Retail Operational Excellence team oversees operations in all shops worldwide. Our department manages various commercial and operational projects aimed at benefiting employees globally, ensuring they have the necessary tools to deliver best in class performance and provide excellent service to our customers.
What you’ll do
Your responsibilities will include assisting with daily retail operational tasks such as:
- Retail communication,
- Maintaining the knowledge base,
- Quality issues
- Cash management and handling ad-hoc activities.
- Additionally, you will be involved in communicating with markets, providing support for international retail projects from development to implementation, and liaising with our stores to gather best practices and feedback.
4. Retail Partnership Team
Join a dynamic and impactful team that bridges the gap between global strategy and local market execution. As part of Rituals’ Retail Partnership Team, you will play a supporting role in ensuring seamless collaboration between our Central Head Office and our key Partners across Asia and the Middle East.
Our team is responsible for aligning strategic vision with operational excellence, ensuring consistency in marketing, retail operations, and brand execution. Working closely with departments like Marketing, Activation, Communication, Format & Design, and In-store Communication, you will become a crucial link in driving our brand’s growth and innovation in some of the most exciting regions of the world.
Are you ready to be a player in Rituals’ global expansion? Join us on this thrilling journey and become a vital part of our success in the Far East!
What you’ll do:
- Play a supporting role in developing commercial briefings and calendars for our partner markets.
- Act as a communication link between head office and local partner teams, ensuring clarity and consistency.
- Support a variety of commercial and operational projects, including events and newsletters.
- Collaborate across departments to drive efficiency, operational excellence, and brand success.
5. Retail Communication Internship:
Are you ready to dive into the world of internal communication? As an intern with our Global Retail Department, you’ll join our enthusiastic Retail Communication team. Our mission? To elevate everyday moments into extraordinary experiences. Imagine being part of a team that reaches 10,000 store employees across Europe through our internal communication platform ‘Your Rituals’, or through our live events. That’s where you come in!
What you’ll do:
- Play a crucial support role in the organisation of our Rituals Live Events & Retail Events
- Create inspiring, ‘bite-sized’ content. TikTok guru wanted!
- Support with copywriting, script writing and survey creation
- Support with translation processes
- Assist in planning, scheduling, and publishing content to a global audience
6. Travel Retail Department:
Are you curious about the world of travel retail, eager to learn and excited to work in a dynamic international environment? Join the Travel Retail Department and immerse yourself in a fast-paced sector that brings Rituals to travelers worldwide!
As a Travel Retail Intern, you’ll support the Duty-Free & Hotel and Airline (H&A) teams with a variety of tasks, from analyzing order errors to improve sales, supporting with store openings, sharing master data with partners, sending packages to support operations at location level and creating product assortment sheets. You’ll play an important role in helping our team to operate successfully around the globe.
During this internship, you’ll gain insights into many areas of the business - Travel Retail store operations, partner management, maintaining operational excellence, implementation of Rituals around the world, and translating data from Rituals to a partner. Additionally, you’ll help organize Travel Retail team events and handle ad hoc operational requests, giving you insight into this fast-growing industry. Develop your coordination skills and play a role in expanding Rituals’ presence in airports, airlines, and beyond.
7. Wholesale Travel & Retail – Operations Intern:
The Wholesale & Travel Retail – Operations Intern will be part of the Wholesale & Travel Retail Department which operates from the head office in Amsterdam. The Wholesale & Travel Retail team is responsible to define the strategy and development of the global Wholesale & Travel Retail business, whilst providing excellent support to both internal as external stakeholders.
The Wholesale & Travel Retail – Operations Intern will provide assistance to the Operations team, to support with the daily operational tasks such Monitoring data of sales performances, coordination of weekly Wholesale & Travel Retail Newsletter, organization of training events, and support towards the towards the Wholesale & Travel Retail teams in the local markets.
What You’ll Do:
- Coordinating the weekly Wholesale & Travel Retail Newsletter
- Support S&OE (Sales, Operations & Execution) process
- Support in monitoring of data of sales
- Support in organization of events / hand over moments local markets
- Other back-bone related support
8. Wholesale Digital Marketing Team
The Digital Marketing Intern will be part of the Wholesale & Travel Retail Department which operates from the head office in Amsterdam. The Wholesale marketing team is responsible to define the strategy and development of the global online Wholesale business, whilst providing excellent support to both internal as external stakeholders.
You will be supporting on creating campaigns for key partners such as Zalando, Douglas & Sephora. The purpose of this internship is to support the digital marketing team with streamlining and improving the digital development of key campaigns and programs for all Wholesale partners (department stores, perfumeries and online players) following the Trade Marketing strategy and calendar.
What You’ll Do:
- Help in the creative briefings for the marketing materials
- Support in data analysis of online traffic and sales
- Help with tracking the online performance of our product pages.
- Support in hand over moments local markets
- Other back-bone related support
Qualifications
All internships are located in Amsterdam, at our Central Head Office. We are looking for interns for 32-40 hours a week, from the 1st of September 2025, for 5-6 months.
Qualifications
- Education: Currently studying in HBO/WO education in Communication/ Business Administration/Hotel Management/ Marketing/Branding/ Economics and other. *Please note we can only accept applications from candidates who are actively enrolled in their study for the entire duration of the internship.
- Excellent communication skills in English
- You are pro-active, independent, inquisitive and solution-oriented
- Good skills: planning, organization, and multitasking
- You can work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
A GUIDE WITH OUR BENEFITS
Rituals offers a varied intern role (full-time) within a young team with enthusiastic colleagues at our head office in the heart of Amsterdam. The salary offered is in line with market conditions and you will be given the opportunity to make the fullest use of your talents. The organization offers you an ambitious and pleasant international working environment.
- A compensation of €550,- based on 40 hours
- Unlimited access to the ‘’Rijksmuseum’’
- Discount on your OneFit or ClassPass subscription
- 20% discount on our products
- MacBook Pro
- Two holidays per month based on 40 hours
- Intern Rootcamp & trainings
- The opportunity to participate in a variety of activities, from running the Amsterdam Marathon to company festivities
- Fresh fruit, free snacks and healthy lunches