AI Strategy & Business Operations MBA Intern

Internship opportunity within Philips Intelligent Systems & AI

Philips Intelligent Systems & AI is looking for a high-potential MBA intern to support the orchestration of our AI transformation agenda across the IS&AI value chain. This role sits at the intersection of AI strategy, business transformation, program execution, portfolio transparency, and executive communication.

The intern will work closely with the IS&AI leadership team to create a clear view of AI activities across innovation, commercial, service, implementation, and end-to-end transformation domains. The role requires strong business acumen, technical fluency, structured problem-solving, and the ability to translate complex AI and technology topics into clear business narratives for senior stakeholders.

Internship details

• Start date: As of September 2026
• Duration: at least 6 months
• Type: Internship (non-thesis)

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain an integrated view of AI activities across the IS&AI value chain.
• Track progress, risks, dependencies, ownership, and leadership decision points across key AI initiatives.
• Support the orchestration of AI-related strategic and organizational initiatives.
• Prepare high-quality leadership materials, executive updates, decision documents, and communication content.
• Own preparation for IS&AI leadership connects, including agenda design, content coordination, follow-up tracking, and stakeholder alignment.
• Ensure clear ownership of content preparation before leadership meetings and clear follow-through after decisions are made.
• Translate complex AI, data, and technology topics into concise business-oriented messages.
• Help improve the operating rhythm for how IS&AI aligns, communicates, and executes on AI priorities.
• Support portfolio transparency, value tracking, and leadership decision-making across AI initiatives.

You’re the right fit if

• Current MBA student from a leading business school, preferably with an international profile.
• 4–8 years of prior experience, ideally in consulting, strategy, product management, digital transformation, enterprise software, AI/data, healthcare technology, or program management.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand business priorities, customer impact, operating model implications, value creation, and trade-offs, and to ask: what value does this create, who owns it, how do we scale it, and what decision is needed?
• Technical fluency in AI and digital transformation. You do not need to code deeply, but you should understand AI concepts, agentic AI, data dependencies, platforms, product thinking, adoption, governance, and scaling, and be comfortable speaking with technical teams.
• Excellent executive communication, with the ability to turn complex or messy inputs into clear leadership narratives, crisp slides, decision papers, status updates, and communication for different audiences.
• Strong orchestration skills, including running agendas, coordinating content, tracking actions, preparing leadership connects, and ensuring meetings lead to decisions and follow-through.
• High ownership and low ego, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, bring people together, and drive clarity.
• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders across leadership, product, program management, customer success, service, commercial, innovation, and engineering teams.

Potential pathway

For a high-performing intern, this role may create a potential pathway into a full-time position within IS&AI, focused on AI strategy, transformation execution, program management, customer success, portfolio orchestration, or operating model leadership.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

We offer you

• Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on your education level and whether you need to relocate to the Netherlands. Part-time internships receive the allowance pro-rata.
• Housing compensation for eligible interns who relocate near the office: €300 net per month in the vicinity of Amsterdam, or €255 net for all other Philips locations. Eligibility requires a rental contract and a usual home-work travel distance of more than 50 km or 1.5 hours one way.
• Travel compensation for eligible interns who are not eligible for a free public transport card: up to €192 net as a monthly allowance.
• Paid holidays per internship term.
• The opportunity to buy Philips products at the Philips shop.

About Philips

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