Internship: Negotiation Excellence

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Amsterdam, Nederland Philips Voltijd
Job TitleInternship: Negotiation Excellence

Job Description

Start date: Feb/March 2024

Duration: 6-12 months.

This internship is not suitable to combine it with your thesis. We do require a 20-40 hours per week availability to work on this assignment.

Duration: 6 months

Location: Amsterdam

This internship is not suitable to combine with your thesis.

Have you ever wondered how Game Theory and Mechanism Design are successfully applied in practice? If yes, this is your chance to find out in Procurement within Royal PHILIPS, a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum.

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Experience how Game Theory and Mechanism Design are applied in practice in procurement within Royal Philips, an innovation leader in Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle.

You are responsible for

  • The organization of negotiation trainings and support in the continuous improvement of the training material

  • Support the team during the preparation and execution of high impact negotiations in cooperation with Procurement Commodity Managers and Procurement Engineers

You are a part of

A small team of negotiation experts within Philips Procurement set up to support commodity managers globally in high-impact negotiations. We are an internal consultancy with an entrepreneurial spirit and the mission to enrich strategic decision-making. We focus on optimizing competitive negotiations while applying Game and Auction Theory, but we are constantly developing new concepts to support all negotiation types end-to-end. We work within cross-functional project teams and analyze & strategize to develop the optimal award mechanism design. In addition to hands-on negotiations, we develop and execute training and coaching programs for Philips Procurement. In short, our activities are a mix of strategy consulting, data analytics, and project management, and the intern will gain deep insights and hands-on experience in an innovative, highly efficient approach to doing business in Procurement.

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

We are looking for interns passionate about continuous learning and challenging the status quo, love solving complex problems and are enthusiastic about Game Theory and negotiations.

  • Student in Economics, Econometrics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Math, Psychology, or related studies
  • Analytical, strategic, and abstract thinking
  • Knowledge of negotiations and Microeconomics, including Game Theory and Mechanism Design
  • Independent, reliable, and organized way of working
  • Great communication skills and MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) skills
  • Fluent in oral and written English
  • Preferred: Availability for 6 months

Our offer

  • First-hand insights into the entire sourcing process
  • Experience how to systematically apply theoretical knowledge to business practice
  • Location: Amsterdam (however, location might be flexible)
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Excellent career perspectives as three former interns now hold permanent positions in the team

Interested?

We look forward to receiving your application.

Note that 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.

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 â which needs to be signed by the student and the university.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. Itâs a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum.

To find out more about what itâs like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on 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

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