AI Deployment and Business Analyst Internship – Climate Action (non-thesis)

Join Philips’ Climate Action team as an intern helping accelerate the deployment of AI to make climate impact insights more accessible, actionable, and scalable for internal teams and external customers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the development and adoption of AI-enabled tools that improve how climate impact is measured, managed, and communicated.

Philips is a health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation, while acting responsibly towards the planet and society.

Within Climate Action, the team focuses on expanding access to care for underserved communities, driving towards a circular economy by embedding EcoDesign in innovation processes, and supporting climate action by ensuring emission reduction targets across the value chain are aligned to limit global warming to below 1.5 °C.

As an AI Deployment Intern in the Climate Action team, you will contribute to embedding AI into day-to-day ways of working, developing market-facing AI tools to assess climate impact across lifecycle stages, building a climate impact tool that enables businesses to quantify their contribution in line with Philips’ 2030 impact ambitions, and optimizing performance management processes to increase efficiency and decision-making quality.

Your role

• Support the deployment of AI-enabled ways of working within the Climate Action team, identifying practical use cases where AI can improve efficiency, insight generation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute to the design and development of customer-facing AI tools that help customers assess the climate impact of products and solutions across different lifecycle stages.
• Help build and improve a climate impact tool that enables businesses to quantify their climate impact and contribution to Philips’ 2030 impact ambitions, translating complex sustainability data into clear and actionable outputs.
• Optimize climate performance management processes by identifying opportunities to automate recurring tasks, improve KPI tracking, streamline reporting workflows, and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with function, market, and business stakeholders to translate user needs into practical AI-enabled solutions.
• Support testing, validation, and documentation of AI tools to ensure outputs are reliable, understandable, and aligned with climate accounting principles, lifecycle thinking, and business requirements.
• Create clear training materials, demos, and communications to drive adoption of AI tools and embed them into day-to-day team routines and decision-making processes.

You are the right fit if

• Degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Data Science, AI, Digital Innovation, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Passionate about sustainability, climate action, and the responsible deployment of AI to solve practical business challenges.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with data, structure problems, test assumptions, and translate insights into practical recommendations.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is required; experience with Power BI, Power Query, Python, low-code/no-code tools, AI assistants, or workflow automation tools is a strong plus (e.g. CODEX).
• Basic understanding of climate impact, lifecycle thinking, carbon accounting, or sustainability reporting frameworks is preferred.
• Ability to translate user needs into clear tool requirements, simple process improvements, and engaging communication materials.
• Self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to experiment, learn quickly, and drive actions independently while aligning with strategic objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent English verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

In return

• Hands-on experience in deploying AI-enabled tools in a global sustainability function and embedding them into day-to-day business processes.
• Exposure to climate impact assessment, lifecycle thinking, carbon accounting, and Philips’ 2030 impact ambitions.
• Practical experience in developing customer-facing and internal tools that translate complex climate data into actionable insights.
• Insight into how performance management, KPI tracking, and sustainability reporting processes can be improved through automation, data analytics, and AI.
• Professional growth through collaboration with sustainability, digital, innovation, and business experts in a purpose-driven organization recognized for climate action 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.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, you may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips.