Internship: Sustainability Transformation (non-thesis)

Internship: Sustainability Transformation (non-thesis)

Start date: as soon as possible

Duration: 6 months

Your role:

As a Sustainability transformation intern, you will drive the employee engagement and activation for our ambitious sustainability targets.

• Support our ESG Transformation Team in moderating the Sustainability Community of Practice (CoP) and Center of Excellence (CoE) by actively connecting people with experts, people with people, sharing the right information, and engaging in the discussion.
• Support the organization and execution of activities such as live webinars, interactive events from finding presenters, preparing practice sessions, promoting the events through posts, to ensuring everything runs smoothly during the sessions.
• Become the expert of tools that can help Philips employees learn about sustainability, find useful resources, and connect with each other for challenges and best practices. You will also work directly with sustainability experts and advise them to leverage on the power of the Sustainability Community of Practice to facilitate transformation.
• Collecting and creating content for the Sustainability CoEs and CoPs, and sharing this content throughout the organization using our two main internal communication platforms.

You're the right fit if:

• Currently student for Environment, Communications, Policy, Sustainability- especially Circular Economy and EcoDesign, Innovation and Strategy, Change management, Business Administration.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about sustainability- especially Circular Economy and EcoDesign.
• Experienced with community management, media platforms like SharePoint and Yammer/Viva, video editing and PowerPoint.
• Able to translate complex technical information into engaging and interesting internal and external communications and be able to interact with diverse stakeholder groups
• Self-starter, ability to drive actions independently while keeping close alignment with the wider team, strong interpersonal skills and project management skills
• Excellent English verbal and written skills plus good graphic skills

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.

• 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 need to be more than 50 km or travel time (one way trip) need 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

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.We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.Working at Philips is more than a job. It's an experience filled with unexpected moments that will transform you in lasting and positive ways. Help us improve the world for the better while building a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

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.