Internship: Sustainability Requirements Management & Digital Transformation

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Start Date: February 2027

Duration: minimum 6 months

Type: Internship

Weekly Presence: 40h (minimum 32h)

Location: Eindhoven (3x per week)

Internship: Sustainability Requirements Management & Digital Transformation

Within Philips Group Sustainability, we maintain an enterprise sustainability management system that translates external regulatory obligations and Philips sustainability requirements into actionable requirements for our businesses. The system includes sustainability standards (SUS documents), regulatory and sustainability memos, policies, procedures, and supporting guidance.

As sustainability regulations continue to expand in both scope and complexity, it becomes increasingly important that businesses can easily identify the requirements that apply to them, understand their obligations, demonstrate compliance, and integrate these requirements effectively into their local processes.

As an intern within Group Sustainability, you will contribute to the modernization and simplification of Philips' sustainability requirements management approach. You are expected to bring the knowledge from your Bachelor/Master in a technical field such as (Applied) Data Science. You will explore how requirements can be structured, governed, maintained, communicated, and deployed more effectively across the organization, while investigating how AI and digital solutions can enable a more scalable and user-friendly system. The goal is to help develop a requirements management approach that supports Businesses, Regions and Functions as internal customers, while enabling Group Sustainability to efficiently manage and maintain an evolving sustainability requirements landscape.

Your activities may include:

• Mapping and analyzing the existing sustainability documentation landscape, including SUS documents, regulatory memos, sustainability memos, policies, procedures, and supporting guidance.
• Identifying overlaps, gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to simplify and consolidate requirements and documentation.
• Assessing the current lifecycle of sustainability requirements, including how requirements are created, reviewed, approved, communicated, deployed, maintained, and updated.
• Developing a structured requirements architecture that improves navigation, traceability, ownership, maintenance, and usability.
• Benchmarking requirements management practices across other Philips functions, such as Quality & Regulatory, Health & Safety, Security, and Privacy, and identifying practices that could be applied within Group Sustainability.
• Interviewing document owners, subject matter experts, and business stakeholders to understand current challenges, pain points, and user needs.
• Exploring opportunities to use AI and digital tools to support requirements management, such as searchable requirements catalogues, intelligent repositories, metadata structures, AI-supported search and navigation, and integration with existing management systems.
• Evaluating how requirements can be presented and deployed more effectively to Businesses, Regions, and Functions based on their specific needs and applicability.
• Proposing improvements to document governance, ownership, maintenance, deployment, and overall user experience.

During the internship, you will work towards delivering:

• An assessment of the current sustainability requirements and documentation landscape.
• An overview of key challenges, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• A proposed future-state sustainability requirements management approach.
• A recommended requirements/document and data architecture.
• Recommendations for an effective governance and ownership model.
• Proposals for the use of AI and digital solutions in requirements management.
• A roadmap for the simplification and digitalization of sustainability requirements management.
• Practical improvement initiatives that can be implemented by Group Sustainability.

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. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on your education level. If you need to relocate to The Netherlands specifically for the internship there will be a different allowance. Part-time internships 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. To be eligible, your usual home-work travel distance needs to be more than 50 km or 1.5 hours of travel time (one way). Afterwards, you need to provide the rental contract from your (new) landlord.

Travel compensation, if you are not eligible for a free public transport (OV chipkaart - student travel product); you can receive max. €192,- net depending on your location. Paid holidays per internship term.

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