Intern Employee Experience

Starting Date: as soon as possible

Duration: 6 months (with possibility to extend)

This role is suitable for thesis.

In this role you will support the design and rollout of initiatives that shape how our employees experience work, along key ‘moments that matter’. You’ll be responsible for gathering and analyzing employee insights, helping design and coordinate projects, and creating engaging communication materials that bring our Employee Experience Practice to life. This role is ideal for someone eager to combine Project Management, UX, and Change Management in a global HR environment.

Your role:

Research & Insights

• Support employee listening activities by gathering and synthesizing feedback from surveys, focus groups, and other channels.
• Benchmark best practices in employee experience, onboarding, leadership development, and engagement.
• Help analyze data and translate insights into practical recommendations for the team.

Design & Co-Creation

• Contribute to the design of Employee Experience solutions, applying design thinking and human-centered approaches.
• Support the development of playbooks, frameworks, and toolkits for HR and business leaders.
• Assist in preparing and facilitating workshops, co-creation sessions, and stakeholder interviews.

Project Coordination

• Help manage timelines, deliverables, and documentation for EX initiatives.
• Track progress of pilots and collect learnings to inform future rollouts.

Communications & Engagement

• Draft engaging communication materials (intranet articles, newsletters, SharePoint updates, visual summaries).
• Support awareness campaigns to drive adoption of new EX practices.
• Help maintain team channels and knowledge repositories.

Team Support & Collaboration

• Work closely with People Business Partners, People Leaders, and cross-functional teams to ensure initiatives are aligned with business needs.
• Actively contribute ideas and fresh perspectives to improve how we design and deliver experiences.

You're the right fit if:
You are currently pursuing a Bachelor or Master in Sciences degree at a University in Human Resources, Work and Organizational Psychology, Psychology, or any other People/Business related field.

• You are fluent in oral and written English.
• You are proactive and enjoy working in a fast changing environment.
• You are effective in stakeholder management and have great communication skills.
• You have experience with Excel and data analytics.

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.

In return, we offer you:

• 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.

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.