Internship Description: Internal Communication
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Title: Internship: Internal Communication
Location: Netherlands-North Holland-Amsterdam
Your challenge
Are you the enthusiastic, talented intern we're looking for?
Its worldwide spread, as well as its variety, make the Operations function a very interesting and challenging environment from the communication department perspective. You will have an important task of engaging the Operations community making use of our communication tools with a strong accent on social media and interactive communication.
Your assignment
We are looking for you to support the communication team in enhancing and maintaining the internal communication within the Philips Consumer Lifestyle (CL)Operations function. You will be working with different stakeholders (teams within Operations, management team members, corporate communication team, etc.) in order to supply the content for our communication tools and to bring our community alive in further developing our social media platform and intranet.
You will support the knowledge management, collect information and communicate our vision and experience through different platforms.
The daily tasks consist of:
* maintaining the intranet website
* monthly CL Operations e-News (writing and/or editing of articles, conducting interviews, preparing the lay-out of the newsletter)
* quarterly CL Operations InDepth / themed bulletin in PDF (getting the content from different stakeholders, editing, lay-out in the Adobe InDesign)
* organization of quarterly webcast update calls, town hall meetings and various engagement events
* organization of employee engagement activities / competitions
* video recording and editing
* further development of our social media platform
* co-creating of the communication strategy
Your team
The Communication Team is responsible for mediating the communication flow from HQ towards the offices as well as manufacturing sites worldwide as well as providing support for various Operations teams in their communication needs.
You will work directly with CL Operations Communication Manager and CL Operations HR Manager. On a daily basis you will also communicate with many stakeholders including the Supply Chain Management, Simply Philips, Purchasing, Quality, Regulatory and Sustainability teams.
Our offer
You will be at the core of the communication strategy design and organization of engagement events. This is also an excellent opportunity how to get familiar with the supply chain management practice at Philips Consumer Lifestyle.
* Duration: 7 -10 months, possibility to work part time up to 32 hours/week
* We prefer students able to start per July/August 2012
Your Profile
To be successful in this internship we are looking for you:
* Currently studying towards your Bachelor HBO (BBA/BComm) / Bachelor/Master WO (Bsc./Msc.) with next qualification(s):
o Business Administration
o Communications
o Graphics
o Journalism
o Languages
o Public Relations
* Have excellent writing skills in English.
* Are creative and able to learn quickly.
* Have experience with developing newsletters, bulletins and intranet sites.
* Have an entrepreneurial spirit and like interviewing and writing stories around best practices in business.
* Have an interest/background in design and the creation of media products.
* Are possessing skills in MS Office, Photoshop, InDesign, intranet and video editing software.
We are looking for a responsible, detail oriented and organized person who is able to work independently as well as within the team.
Part of the selection procedure will be providing per mail a "homework" assignment consisting of tasks demonstrating the required skills.
If you recognize yourself in this profile and would like to take this challenge, we invite you to apply latest 30-06-2012!
Contacts
Sonia Kalauzova
Communications Manager
Philips Consumer Lifestyle Operations