Internship - Project Management Office (non-thesis)

Internship - Project Management Office (non-thesis) at Philips

Start date: As soon as possible, no later than September 2025

Duration: 6 months

Type: Non – Thesis

Job title:
You will support the I2M (Idea to Market) Excellence Leader in streamlining and enhancing our internal operations, ensuring our processes are more streamlined and effective. Additionally, you will be involved in developing and setting up a competency training plan, playing a crucial role in its execution to further enhance the skills and expertise within our team.

Your role:

• Organize and manage training calendar, webinars, ensuring content is relevant, engaging, and aligns with our strategic objectives.
• Assist in organizing workshops, incl. Kaizen sessions, 5 Why's analyses
• Provide support in crafting and structuring Communication, enhancing clarity, impact, and audience engagement.
• Gather, analyze, and report on information and results from various workstreams
• Organize and lead cross-functional meetings, fostering collaboration, alignment, and shared accountability across teams.
• Support in conducting analyses, such as Throughput Time (TPT), to identify process efficiencies
• Analyze current performance based on KPIs and Daily Management practices.

You're the right fit if:

• Currently studying towards your Bachelor or Master in Engineering (e.g. Process Engineering), (Innovation) Management, Communication, Business or related study;
• Excellent oral and verbal communication skills. Logical thinking skills and problem-solving mindset;
• Fluency in English is needed;
• Capable of strict planning, working on and initiating multiple projects in parallel while maintaining a high standard.

In return, we offer you

A great opportunity to gain experience within a high-performing team. You will gain insight into significant events within Royal Philips. You will work in a team, which cooperates closely and there will be many learning and development opportunities.

Next to that, we are offering a decent internship package:

• Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on educational level and if you would need to relocate to The Netherlands. If you will perform a part-time internship you will receive the allowance pro-rata.
• Housing compensation, in case of relocating to the vicinity of the office, €300 net if location is in the vicinity of Amsterdam, €255 net for all other Philips locations. You need to provide a rental contract of the landlord, and your normal home-work travel distance needs to be more than 50 km or travel time (one way trip) needs to be more than 1.5 hours.
• Travel compensation, if you are not eligible for a free public transport card; you will receive max. €192 net.
• Paid holidays per internship term.
• The opportunity to buy Philips equipment at our Philips shop.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

IMPORTANT:

• Part of our selection procedure is a HireVue online interview recording. We are not able to share the outcome of this HireVue interview but will use this as extra selection criteria.
• In order to be considered, you have to be registered as a student during the entire internship period. Formal documentation will be requested. Students from outside the EU enrolled at a Dutch university need to fill in a NUFFIC agreement – which needs to be signed by the student and the university.
• Please note that the contents of our regular internship assignments are not suitable for professionals (and/or MBA students) with professional work experience.

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.