Supply Chain Innovation Internship 2023

6 Month Internship

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better.

As a Supply Chain Innovation Intern at Philips, you will have the opportunity to investigate and create a lasting impact on our Supply Chain through a meaningful assignment in one of our Supply Chain teams. You will focus on ‘learning on the job’ as well as from Supply Chain professionals – we are looking forward to welcoming you in the Philips family!

You will be able to

• Support the development of customer centric solutions that enable the improvement of our critical performance in our distribution network.
• Have exposure to different departments of the Supply Chain, working with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Be a champion for innovation and digitization of the supply chain in a large-scale multinational company.
• Opportunity to work on exciting technology or process innovation within our Supply Chain
• You are responsible for
• Define, measure, and analyze our customers’ needs to identify the value of the innovation.
• Build and communicate a business case about the value of implementing the innovation.
• Coordinate across multiple internal and external stakeholders the required analysis for the experimentation/pilot of innovation.
• Support the Supply Chain innovation developments by sharing insights and communicating across internal communication channels on our improvement opportunities.

You are a part of

Our Supply Chain team located across Western Europe. You will be supported by a close-knit team who are based in the UK at our office in Farnborough, Hampshire.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Preferred degree related to data and analytics, engineering, or Supply Chain.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit – ambitious, well-develop organizational skills, eager to learn and to challenge the status quo.
• Analytical with systems- and conceptual-thinking mindset.
• Skills related to programming, advance data analytics and network optimization are a plus. Good Microsoft excel skills are necessary.
• Business fluency in English.

Recruitment process

Please apply as soon as possible as applications will be screened on a first come first served basis.

* Please ensure you include a covering letter / profile statement which outlines your motivation for this specific role.

Recruitment process will include a video interview and an interview with hiring managers.

In return, we offer you

A unique and challenging internship assignment! And the opportunity to implement solutions that add value to our strategic innovation, performance, and transformation priorities.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips pageon our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there,you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.