Internship Power BI & Operational Excellence

With its Nunhems® brand, BASF is one of the world’s largest vegetable seed companies, offering 1,200 vegetable varieties in 20 crops, as well as unrivalled specialist advice. BASF’s vegetable seeds business, headquartered in Nunhem, the Netherlands, offers vegetable solutions that meet and raise the consumer’s demands and expectations. We achieve this by creating improved varieties and by working closely together with partners in the value chain.

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Our Operations Excellence department is looking for an enthusiastic and socially strong intern to join us from February 2027 for a period of 4–5 months (based on approximately two working days per week). The internship will take place at our headquarters in Nunhem, the Netherlands.

About the internship

As a Power BI & Operational Excellence Intern within our Operations Excellence team, you will contribute to standardizing tactical plans across multiple functions and transforming them into a structured, data-driven solution. Tactical plans contain the actions that different functions execute to achieve their strategic goals.

Your assignment will focus on creating a single standardized way of working, enabling cross-functional visibility, strengthening collaboration between teams, and supporting leadership decision-making through data and dashboards.

Your responsibilities

• Analyze existing tactical plans across functions such as Processing, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain and Production
• Identify common elements (e.g., actions, timelines, owners, KPIs) and design a standardized template
• Translate unstructured plans into a structured data model and central dataset
• Build and maintain a centralized database ensuring data quality and consistency
• Develop a Power BI dashboard that provides insights into:
• Progress and performance of tactical actions
• Status tracking (on-track, at risk, delayed)
• Collaborate with stakeholders across functions and translate business needs into reporting solutions
• Identify opportunities for improving planning and reporting processes
• Deliver clear documentation (data model, governance, user manual)

Your profile

You are a final-year Bachelor or Master student in e.g.:

• Data Science / Business Analytics
• Industrial Engineering / Operations Management
• Supply Chain / Business Administration (with strong data affinity)

You have:

• Strong Excel skills (data structuring, formulas, data handling)
• Experience with Power BI (data modeling, dashboards, visualization best practices)
• Understanding of data structuring principles

You are:

• Analytical and structured in your way of working
• A strong communicator who easily connects with different stakeholders and builds trust
• Comfortable engaging with people at different levels of the organization
• Able to actively listen, ask the right questions, and translate input into concrete solutions

What we offer

• A hands-on internship with real business impact in Operations Excellence
• The opportunity to develop not only technical skills, but also stakeholder management and communication skills in a cross-functional environment
• Experience in building a fully functional Power BI solution from scratch
• Guidance from experienced professionals while taking ownership of your own project

Interested in this internship?

Ready to take on this challenge at BASF | Nunhems Vegetable Seeds? Apply now and join a global leader committed to making healthy eating enjoyable and sustainable through innovative vegetable solutions!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Bram Reulen via bram.reulen@basf.com

Welcome to Vegetable Seeds

It is our ambition to make healthy eating enjoyable and sustainable by offering vegetable solutions in line with consumer demands. Our breeders and researchers are constantly working on the development of improved varieties in our laboratories, greenhouses and fields. We look at the needs of vegetable growers and the vegetable chain as well as consumer trends and social developments. By working together with partners in the vegetable value chain, we actively contribute to improve vegetable consumption with innovations that are attractive, healthy, tasty and sustainable.

BASF is one of the largest vegetable seed companies in the world, with its Nunhems® brand. Under this brand, BASF offers specialized advice and 1,200 vegetable varieties in 24 crops to the professional horticulture and vegetable chain. The company is present in all major vegetable producing markets and has more than 2,000 employees worldwide. For BASF, diversity is one of the essential keys to business success and the well-being of our employees. We promote an inclusive culture that accepts the diversity of people, experiences and capabilities. By embracing talents and abilities of all kinds, we aim to boost creativity and motivation and enhance our teams’ performance.