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Internship: Oral HealthCare Research & Development

CompanyPhilips
LocationDrachten
Work ModeOn Site
PostedJanuary 13, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
You will support the creation of a database with multiple inputs from various sources and data types to build intelligence on competitor products. Additionally, you will be responsible for building user interfaces to enter/upload new information for the Research and Development team.
Internship Type
full time
Salary Range
€500 - €700
Company Size
71597
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Over the past decade we have transformed into a focused leader in health technology. At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. We aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities. We see healthcare as a connected whole. Helping people to live healthily and prevent disease. Giving clinicians the tools they need to make a precision diagnosis and deliver personalized treatment. Aiding the patient's recovery at home in the community. All supported by a seamless flow of data. As a technology company, we – and our brand licensees – innovate for people with one consistent belief: there’s always a way to make life better. Visit our website: http://www.philips.com/ Follow our social media house rules https://www.philips.com/a-w/about-philips/social-media.html
About the Role

Job Title

Internship: Oral HealthCare Research & Development

Job Description

Job title: Internship: Oral HealthCare Research & Development 

Location: Drachten


At Philips Oral Healthcare, Research and Development Team, we develop innovative solutions to ensure
people can get a healthy mouth and smile outside of the dental clinic just by using our products daily.
Product range from power toothbrushes, water flossers, and whitening products.


In this assignment, you will support the creation of a database with multiple inputs from various sources
and data types in order to build intelligence on competitor products. You will be responsible for building
user interfaces to enter/upload new information and the connection points to the right fields, allowing
anyone from Research and Development team to interact and learn from the information.

Your role:
Problem-solving skills
Written and verbal communication skills
Development, coordination, and execution of project plans
Self-starter requiring little direct supervision
Comfortable with ambiguity, including ambiguous data sets and with triangulating data from different sources
Strategic minded and metric driven
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams
Experience in Healthcare preferred but not required
Global experience working across multiple locations and time zones a plus

You're the right fit if:
User Experience Research, Design, and/or Strategy
Human Computer Interaction Design
Engineering
Statistics, Data Science, Analysis and/or Informatics, or similar fields
Microsoft Dataverse (preferred) or Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerApps
Microsoft PowerBI
 

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 depending on the distance between your home address and the Philips location.

  • Paid holidays per internship term.

  • The opportunity to buy Philips equipment at our Philips shop

Please 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. Please note that the contents of our regular internship assignments are not suitable for professionals (and/or MBA students) with professional work experience

  • 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. This is an onsite role.

    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 – 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.

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

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Key Skills
Problem-Solving SkillsWritten Communication SkillsVerbal Communication SkillsProject ManagementSelf-StarterData AnalysisUser Experience ResearchHuman Computer Interaction DesignEngineeringStatisticsData ScienceMicrosoft DataverseMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft PowerAppsMicrosoft PowerBI
Categories
HealthcareScience & ResearchTechnologyData & AnalyticsEngineering
Benefits
Housing CompensationTravel CompensationPaid Holidays