Grow your IT career within Philips

Philips is a world-leading company with a diverse product range targeted at the global healthcare and well-being sectors. The innovation built into our DNA is apparent throughout our entire product portfolio, demonstrating how we translate our in-depth understanding of customer needs into meaningful technologies and applications that improve people's quality of life. Within Philips 2700 IT professionals enable the growth of Philips, by delivering meaningful innovative IT solutions and reliable IT services. IT solutions enable the growth of Philips e.g. by:

• making it possible to process over 20.000 orders each night, so the availability of Philips product’s are ensured.
• delivering IT solutions that enable 119.000 Philips employees worldwide to work in international and virtual teams. An example of a tool built for sharing knowledge is the internal Social Media Platform.
• ensuring that outdoor luminaires can be remote controlled which saves more than 50% energy
• providing internet, via Philips- one million - Net TV, to people’s home

What type of professionals are we looking for?

We are looking for IT professionals with strong business acumen.
As a professional you have a deep understanding of business processes and are able to translate customer’s needs into IT solutions. You are a strong team player that feels at ease working in international and virtual teams. Strong project management skills make you successful in managing large projects with end-to-end responsibility.

Philips offer

Philips offers you the opportunity to work on several large projects for various customers and on the other hand Philips offers you the advantages of working for a big international company that brings A-products to market.

You’ll be working with colleagues from all over the world that are just like you passionate about what they do. As a team - often virtual - you have the end-to-end responsibility for delivering great customer solutions.

Delivering these solutions - that are developed with the latest technologies - require that we support you by professional development and training framework, including certification. As an organization, we truly believe in the further professional development of our employees, therefore we’ll offer you real career growth opportunities.

Experiences from an IT professional

When it comes to discussing what it’s like to work at Philips IT Applications, Senior IT Specialist Hilina Mulatu provides some very useful insights. She knows what it is like to work for Philips from the outside as a contractor, and she knows what it is like to work from the inside. Having joined Philips two years ago as a full-time employee, she’s not looking back. Read about the challenges and responsibilities she takes on at Philips developing leading-edge IT solutions.

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