Elsevier Netherlands Graduate Program 2027
Are you excited to accelerate your career through hands-on experience across publishing, technology, and commercial functions while helping advance science and health?
Do you thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments where curiosity, analytical thinking, and leadership potential are valued?
About the Team
Elsevier is launching a 24-month Graduate Program, offering five high-potential graduates a unique opportunity to gain broad business exposure and build a foundation for future leadership. You will complete three eight-month rotations across the business, contributing to meaningful projects that support operational excellence, digital innovation, and business growth. We work in a global and hybrid working environment. To optimize your learning and onboarding, we would expect you to be in our Amsterdam office around twice a week; depending the project you are working on, this could increase or decrease.
About the Role
This program is designed for early-career professionals who are motivated to develop cross-functional expertise, work with diverse teams, and create impact across the organization. Successful participants will be considered for permanent opportunities on completion of the program. You will be expected to work in our Amsterdam offices at least two days per week.
Responsibilities
You will complete three eight-month rotational assignments across the following business areas:
- Publishing & Operations
- Lead process simplification projects
- Support operational change across teams
- Improve governance & service delivery
- Product, Data & Digital Innovation
- Support AI-enabled workflow projects
- Map user journeys & friction points
- Evaluate adoption & performance with data
- Commercial & Customer Insight
- Analyse customer needs & market trends
- Support product or sales enablement
- Build growth opportunity recommendations
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree (any discipline), completed or due to complete before January 2027
- No more than 2 years’ post-graduate work experience
- Right to work in the Netherlands for the full 24-month length of the program and in a permanent role afterwards (we are not able to sponsor visas)
- Fluent in business English, spoken and written
- Available to start in Q1 2027
What We’re Looking For
- Curiosity about science, research, or how knowledge advances human progress. No science degree needed.
- Alignment with Elsevier’s mission: advancing human progress together
- Confident, critical use of AI tools in your work or studies
- Ownership: examples of taking the lead and driving impact, from any context, such as study, work, caring responsibilities, community or sport
- Interest in working across multiple business functions, rather than pursuing a narrow specialism
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
Primary Location Base Pay Range: NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg) €49,000 - €81,700. This role is covered by the Collective Labor Agreement Publishing Industry.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in any discipline, completed or due before January 2027
- No more than two years of post-graduate work experience
- Right to work in the Netherlands for the full 24-month program and any subsequent permanent role
- Fluent business English, spoken and written
- Available to start in Q1 2027
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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