Young professionals

In our Key Account Management & Solution Design track, you will learn to acquire, implement and manage (new) clients for our company. In doing so, you will gain insights into the strategic and operational alignment of businesses and be part of standardization, optimization and digitalization projects.

Get to know our diverse clients in different industries as well as our innovative solutions and strategies. Within your traineeship, you can focus on solution design or account management based on your interests and strengths. But one thing you will get in any case: a deep understanding of the value chains of different clients.

Your time as a trainee, including an international project assignment, will prepare you for a career in Key Account Management or Solution Design with excellent growth prospects at Arvato.

Being a trainee in Logistics Management, you will get to know the variety of warehouse logistics from the ground up. You will work in several locations in Germany and abroad in all areas of our warehouses - from incoming goods to picking and returns to outgoing goods.

One of your stations will be in Logistics Engineering, where you will gain detailed insights into logistics and warehouse planning and you will also develop and strengthen your leadership skills.

After your trainee program, you will be ideally prepared for your next step for a management position in the warehouse area or in project management.

As a trainee in Transport Management, you will gain a wide range of insights. You will accompany our Transport Managers and actively support the Key Account Management in communicating with our clients. In addition you will also work closely with the Business Development and Solution Design teams to implement new client projects and optimize transport networks.

Your knowledge and expertise are needed to support cost efficiency and quality improvement projects. Analyze and optimize existing processes in collaboration with the IT and Operations teams to provide our customers with the best possible transportation solutions.

Through various positions you will gain deep insights into the areas of strategic customer management, project management and transport operations - a perfect preparation for your expert career with us.

In Logistics Planning you will get a comprehensive introduction to the world of intralogistics and work through all areas of our planning and implementation department, in Germany and abroad. You will also be involved in exciting automation projects.

During your trainee program you will develop your expertise in the field of material flow planning and accompany logistics concepts from planning to project management and implementation. Thereby gaining valuable experience to optimally prepare yourself for your future career in the field of Logistics Engineering with us.

As a trainee in Business Process Management & SAP Key User you will analyze business processes and conduct requirements analyses. You will also be involved in planning and monitoring end-to-end system tests and integration tests as part of the SAP implementation. 

Part of your task is to contribute to the continuous development of our standard solution portfolio on the process level. In doing so, you will take over the (partial) project management for the implementation of new processes and assist in the moderation of workshops. 

Get to know the complete range of our (logistics) processes and their mapping in our SAP landscape from scratch and start your career as an SAP application expert or business process manager.

In our SAP Consulting & Development track, you will get to know the entire SAP spectrum, from support to development to consulting, and you can actively contribute your skills and ideas to our numerous IT projects.

You will have the opportunity to work with various SAP logistics modules and familiarize yourself with different programming languages (especially ABAP), learn new technologies and use state-of-the-art standard software. You will actively work with SAP S/4HANA and support our project team in the transformation of our IT landscape to cloud-based services.

Contribute your own ideas, in line with our start-up mentality, and optimise your preparation for your SAP expert career with us.

As an IT trainee in Warehouse Automation, you will gain exciting insights into automation technology and goods-to-person systems. In doing so, you will pass through various varied stations in the WCS (Warehouse Control System) and OMS (Output Management System).

Develop your own solutions for optimizing IT-supported warehouse processes using C# and learn in the SAP OMS area how we create customer-specific delivery bills, invoices and returns documents and how we use our mailing solution for digital end-customer communication.

As a trainee, you will independently make minor adjustments to our SAP system by using ABAP/OO data selections to retrieve the relevant information.

In your trainee program you will learn a lot about the complex and highly modern IT processes in our warehouses. This is the perfect preparation for your own career as an expert in Warehouse Automation.

As a trainee in the area of Data Analytics, you will actively contribute to the optimization and automation of our processes. You will work closely with IT developers and data modelers and learn about data extraction from source systems, data modeling in the data warehouse, and data analysis and visualization.

Of course, we also involve you in the definition, maintenance and execution of cybersecurity processes as well as in strategy development, piloting and implementation for the connection of new technologies (on premise, cloud).

You will also be actively involved in the digitalization of processes using the latest implementation methods (MS PowerPlatform) and will be responsible for advising the global business units on IT processes and application issues - the perfect preparation for your future expert role.

As a trainee in software development, you will be part of our agile and cross-functional project teams and get the opportunity to actively shape software development and contribute to innovative customer solutions. You will work with different technology stacks and develop cloud-based web applications in global projects. Among others, Java, .NET, JS/TS, NPM and Maven are used.

We place great emphasis on agile software development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, test automation and GitOps. Equally important is troubleshooting and failure analysis as well as improving our service quality - together we continue to develop!

Get to know our complex and highly modern digitization and software development processes as a trainee. We will match your individual skills and personality with tailor-made projects so that you can take on more and more responsibility and best prepare yourself for a digital career with us.

Yes, it's possible if you have already successfully passed all exams and only need to finalize your thesis. We will gladly support you in deciding whether this is a reasonable option.

At the start of your trainee program, we will draw up a rough schedule that will provide you with an initial orientation. Subsequent adjustments, also according to your wishes, are of course still possible. Your assignment in a specific area will last between three to six months. Within Germany, you will mainly get to know our locations in the East Westphalia-Lippe region and in the Ruhr area. Assignments abroad are also possible, but these often depend on the project and are planned on short-term. This is where your "I'm on it"-attitude is needed.

Our trainee assignments will take you to our locations in e.g. Poland, France and the Netherlands, the UK or the USA. Such international assignment are, of course, an offer and not obligatory.

Depending on the track of your choice, you can expect various technical and specific training opportunities. In addition, we offer you a wide range of training courses on soft skills and personal development. For example, we will teach you presentation skills, agile project management or courses on conflict management or resilience and stress management.

And if you'd like to learn more online, you'll find numerous other online training courses on a wide range of topics at LinkedIn Learning and Coursera.

You will receive a permanent contract right at the start of your trainee program. In this way, we want to show you that we will continue to closely support your career path after the program. Since we want to take your individual development and career aspirations into account, there is no fixed target position that you pursue right from the start of the program.

In a joint exchange with the specialist departments, we will find the position in which you will take your further career steps after your trainee program.