Philips IT Business Challenge Internship in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Royal Dutch Philips is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. This means that Philips products are ‘designed around you’, 'easy to experience’ and ‘advanced’. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs about 117,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries worldwide.

With sales over EUR 22 billion in 2010, Philips is a global leader across its healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle portfolio and is therefore:
• The world’s largest home healthcare company, being number one in: Monitoring systems, Automated External Defibrillators, Cardiac Ultrasound and Cardiovascular X-ray;
• Number one in lamps in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific and number two in North America; in Automotive lighting, leading in Europe, Latin America, Japan and Asia Pacific;
• Number one in the electric shavers and male grooming category globally.

In a nutshell, our strategy is to enable the growth of Philips through world-class IT, customer centricity and agile business processes. Customer centricity involves creating close ties with our customers and partners through mobile and online interaction, in order to optimize our products and services in the markets. Agile business processes involves streamlining and optimizing our end-to-end (E2E) value chain through providing on-demand business services, which will operate 24/7 in real time, and will be increasingly cloud-based. Our IT team works through a model were we engage closely with Philips’ businesses in managing the IT Portfolio, while defining a world class future state through Architecture & Platforms. Our full business portfolio is Delivered and Operated through an integrated eco-system of world class partners.

Philips IT Business Challenge Job Description

Philips IT Business Challenge 
Location: Eindhoven

Your challenge 
By joining Philips IT, you’ll be part of a company that delivers meaningful innovation for people every day. As an Intern you’ll get a taste of the dynamics, challenges impact of IT in a multinational, you’ll have great opportunity for personal & professional development…and a change to kick-start your professional career.

Our offer
During your studies, it is hard to have a clear idea of what everyday life in a company is like. Completing an internship in Philips will give you an idea of what it's like to work in a team, to have responsibilities, to have deadlines to meet and to be part of an international company. It’s also an excellent opportunity to get an inside view into our organization and the people who work here. The professional experience you gain during an internship makes you a more valuable candidate for future jobs, add extra points to your resume and open up more opportunities for you with us.

Recruitment Process:
When you are interested to join Philips as an intern, please apply online and upload your resume, motivation and grade list. After a pre-selection process you will be asked to make an online ability test. If you pass this test the next step would be face-to-face interviews. The most suitable candidates will be invited to join a Business Challenge. During the event you will be working on a range of highly challenging business cases in a number of business-related scenarios and you’ll meet with IT Professionals and Senior IT Leaders who will give you feedback on your performance. Do well, and you get an offer to start with us as at the end of the day. This internship could be the start of your career at Philips IT! 

Our next Business Challenge in the Netherlands will be scheduled in December 2012.

Philips IT Business Challenge Job Requirements

We are looking for
...people that are willing and able to make positive difference. We’ll expect you to be in the final stages of your education, planning to obtain your Master’s degree with the coming year. In terms of background, we’ll look for strong IT-skills (e.g. Business Informatics) with business acumen…or vice versa. You show a solid hands-on, entrepreneurial mentality and have a drive & passion for success. Your communication and inter-personal skills are excellent, allowing you to influence and motivate senior management as well as your peers. You have an international experience or mindset and the ability to use internal and external resources to maximize the value for the company and its customers. We’ll look for excellent analytic, problem solving capabilities and strong willingness to learn. To qualify you must be fluent in English.

Philips IT Business Challenge Application Information

Interested?
For more information about this internship please contact Stefanie Ronde Guffroy, Graduate Recruiter via +31 6 21142022 or [email protected].

If you are interested in this position please send us your application by using the 'Apply' button below.

Agency calls not appreciated

Keywords: Internship, Intern, IT, Informatics internship, Traineeship, IT student.

Philips IT Business Challenge Summary

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