Your challenge
Are you a spirited person looking to support a world-class organization in a dynamic and competitive industry? Do you have the flair for achieving results through true collaboration with multifunctional teams of various backgrounds? If so, apply now to join our award-winning Design for eXcellence (DfX) team! DfX plays a key role in Philips' ability, in collaboration between business functions, to address total end-to-end cost and establish a new way of working, encouraging cooperation and transparency. Design for eXcellence has been awarded by the World Procurement Leaders the Cross-functional Collaboration Award for 2016.
DfX has achieved great "cost-down" results so far, which are accurately measured and reported as savings. Now we want to increase our focus on "value-up" and are in need of a way of measuring and reporting these results created by DfX. This is an entirely new approach within Philips that you will be central to.
Your responsibilities
- Participate in different DfX workshops across Philips businesses, especially those with a specific focus on value;
- Investigate and propose several ways the DfX program could measure the value generated in DfX projects;
- Support setting up appropriate reporting on value up to the Procurement Management Team.
- You will develop skills in: program management; KPI definition, measurement and reporting; communication management; stakeholder management; business improvement.
- Duration: 6-9 months, starting August 2016.
- Thesis can be discussed
- Master Student with excellent academic track record in Management Sciences, Engineering, Finance or Accountancy. Affinity with technology, program management and financial reporting is highly appreciated.
- The working language is English.
Please notice that you will receive an allowance depending on the nature of the internship (between € 300 and € 900 per month) and that you are registered as a student during the whole period of the internship.
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