Philips

Job Title

Social Media Communications internship

Job Description

Start date: August / September 2024

Duration: 6 months. Students able to extend up to a maximum of 12 months are preferred.

Type: Suitable for Thesis

Weekly availability: 32-40 hours

Job title

Social Media Communications internship

Your role

Join a position in the heart of social media communications in Philips, enhancing our brand visibility and building meaningful relationships with Philips’ audiences by defining, implementing, and activating proactive social media communications.

As an intern on the Social Media Communications team, you’ll support to devise audience-based, data-driven, social media strategies to drive engagement on corporate social media accounts, ultimately strengthening the reputation of Philips as a leader in health technology.

You are responsible for

• Support the team in driving an integrated social media strategy, aligned with our Digital strategy, and Communications and Brand strategy, to support proactive communications.
• Be involved in the daily management of corporate social media accounts across planning, publishing, community management, reporting and analytics across priority global social media platforms (LinkedIn, X, Meta, etc.)
• In collaboration with the social media content strategist, and social media managers drive an always-on social media calendar of compelling activation content– forward planned and ad-hoc – for key audiences, on the global corporate accounts.
• Give platform guidance and creative direction to support the activation of high-quality content by audience (e.g., C-suite, B2G, all followers)
• Support the channel owner & activation efforts with publishing content, managing the owned channels presence, and sharing social media know-how across different departments in Philips.
• Supporting community management and performance management on Philips corporate social media channels.
• Support in data analytics / performance measurement of content and posts published on our social media accounts
• Supporting the social media managers and director in their daily job, continuously learning while supporting ongoing projects
• Agile/scrum: facilitate Daily Management stand ups and manage the Azure board

You are a part of

You report to the Director of Social Media Communications. The Social Media Communications team is part of the Digital Communications team, that sits under the Communications Center of Excellence (CCoE). CCoE is a team of communication specialists who oversee global Philips strategic communications (planning and programs, content strategy and creation, digital and social media communications and related measurement). It is part of Philips’ Communications and Brand function, which reports to the CEO.

You're the right fit if

• Currently studying towards your Bachelor HBO / University Master in Sciences (Msc.) WO in Communications, Marketing or Change Management.
• Team player and networker
• Deep understanding of social media (experience with social media in a professional context has a preference)
• Digital knowledgeable and up to date with latest digital (marketing) trends, and ideally have first experiences with digital marketing
• Fluent in oral and written English
• Fast and eager learner with a high motivation
• Self-starter and proactive

About Philips

This internship gives you the possibility to learn about the many aspects of a communication job in a large, international company. You can participate in different projects and have your own set of responsibilities. You will learn how to work agile within a communications team. You will have an assigned mentor, a more senior team member, who will help you navigate your internship including help to create and reach your personal growth goals. You will be surrounded by seasoned experts in multiple disciplines, including content creation, channels management, activation and analytics; all open to support you and help you grow professionally. Opportunity to get certified trainings.

Our intern remuneration package:

• 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 land lord, 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. (160 hours when running 12 months internship)
• The opportunity to buy Philips products at our Philips shop

Notes

Required documents for us to continue with your application: 

• Resume

Please note that in order to be considered for an internship, you need to be registered as a student during the entire internship period. Formal documentation of which may be requested at any time. Students from outside the EU need to fill in an 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. 

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