Your Challenge:

Support the Philips Lighting Integrated Communications team in the US. The successful candidate will join this fast moving and highly creative team and will help to support internal and external communication activities.

Activities will focus playing a supporting role in helping us to coordinate communications campaigns targeting the media and other key influencers for both the consumer and professional businesses and raising awareness of the Philips Lighting brand. Internal communications activities will focus on engaging and educating employees about our business while reinforcing Philips Lighting as a great place to work.

Your Responsibilities:

Internal Communications

• Help to execute create experiences that excite and educate employees about Philips Lighting and its offerings and reinforce why Philips Lighting is a great place to work
• Identify new ways to engage employees through events, communications tools and other vehicles.
• Support the development of employee newsletters, social platforms, digital signage, internal social media platforms and other internal communication vehicles
• Manage logistics and work with suppliers to source promotional items for various internal and external events

External Communications

• Work closely with Integrated Comm managers, digital and marketing teams to implement campaigns.
• Help to raise awareness for new products and offerings on the professional side.
• Oversee regional media monitoring and provide support for measurement and analysis of communication activities across North America
• Press office support – maintain media lists, develop briefing documents
• Help drive online visibility of executives on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook

Other

• Work with team to identify and implement more efficient tools and processes
• Pull together the monthly news scan, tracking coverage

• Working towards an undergraduate University Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing or Related Discipline
• Strong writing, editing and proofreading skills
• A creative thinker who can share ideas and see initiatives through from start to finish
• A can-do attitude and willingness to learn
• Experience with Photoshop, Microsoft Office including PowerPoint, Publisher and Adobe
• A resourceful, self-starter and multitasker who thrives in a changing, fast-paced environment

Make an impact on innovations that matter.

Everything starts with light. Light moves cities, carries information, and comforts mind and body. In today’s digital age, lighting is being redefined. It’s no longer just about illuminating. It’s about connecting, responding and transforming.

At Philips Lighting, we’re at the forefront of this wave of innovation. We’re developing technologies and systems that are changing how people see and experience their world. We’re the leading lighting company for the Internet of Things, building brighter, smarter cities and homes, and bringing greener, better light to people across the globe.

We want people with a game-changing mentality, to help us create the light of the future. We’re building a team of people who value innovation, and who are ready to make an impact both in their careers and the world they live in.