Internship: Employee Experience

This internship supports the design and rollout of initiatives to enhance employee experience at Philips, focusing on key 'moments that matter'. Responsibilities include gathering and analyzing employee insights, assisting in project design and coordination, and creating engaging communication materials. The role combines project management, UX, and change management within a global HR environment, ideal for a student eager to contribute to shaping how employees experience work.

Must Have

• Support design and rollout of employee experience initiatives
• Gather and synthesize employee feedback and insights
• Contribute to the design of Employee Experience solutions using human-centered approaches
• Help manage timelines, deliverables, and documentation for EX initiatives
• Draft engaging communication materials for various channels
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor or Master's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, or related field
• Fluent in oral and written English
• Proactive and adaptable to fast-changing environments
• Effective in stakeholder management and communication
• Experience with Excel and data analytics

Perks & Benefits

• Monthly full-time allowance ranging from €500 to €700 gross
• Housing compensation for relocation near the office (€300 net for Amsterdam, €255 net for other Philips locations)
• Travel compensation of up to €145 net if not eligible for a free public transport card
• Paid holidays for the duration of the internship term
• Opportunity to purchase Philips equipment at our Philips shop

Job Description

Starting Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 months (with possibility to extend)

Contract: 32-40 hours/week

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, 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.

What we offer you

• Monthly full-time allowance ranging from €500 to €700 gross, depending on your educational level. Part-time internships will receive a pro-rata allowance.
• Housing compensation for relocation near the office: €300 net for locations near Amsterdam, and €255 net for other Philips locations. To qualify, you must provide a rental contract from your landlord, and your regular home-to-work travel distance must be at least 50 km or your one-way travel time must be 1.5 hours or longer.
• Travel compensation of up to €145 net if you are not eligible for a free public transport card.
• Paid holidays for the duration of the internship term.
• Opportunity to purchase Philips equipment at our Philips shop.

Important

• Part of our selection procedure is a HireVue online interview recording. We are not able to share the outcome of this HireVue interview but will use this as extra selection criteria.
• In order to be considered, you have to be registered as a student during the entire internship period. Formal documentation will be requested. Students from outside the EU enrolled at a Dutch university need to fill in a NUFFIC agreement – which needs to be signed by the student and the university.
• Please note that the contents of our regular internship assignments are not suitable for professionals (and/or MBA students) with professional work experience.

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.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

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 here.

About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism.

To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.

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