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Graduate Development Program – Operations Factory Best

What you choose to do with your career matters. And we know that. That’s why we’ve designed a program that’s just right for you – we choose the best combination of experiences for your development to nurture the future leader in you. Our development program is a two-year journey to give you the time and space to get to know us and grow as yourself. Your personal development is at the heart of it all.  

Your assignments: 

As a Philips Graduate Development Program Trainee you will be located in our factory in Best where you will work on 2 different assignments of 12 months each. Via this way you will be able to gain exposure across different operations departments.

In this program you will be identifying and driving projects in the different factories (Components Repair & Refurbishment Factory, Image Guided Therapy Factory, Magnetic Resonance Factory and Diagnostic X-Ray Factory). You will work on projects that focus on process improvements, scalability, quality and compliancy, productivity, training, planning etc.

During this 2-year program you will have the opportunity to learn:

• Stakeholder management on all different levels and departments: factory management, operations, procurement, R&D, quality etc.

• Operational excellence, hands on experience in operational environment.

• Within the factory, you can see End-2-End how a factory is sustained from all aspects.

• Deliverables of the projects are very tangible, and the implementation is key.

As you will be working closely with our employees in the factory it is very important that you are willing to be in the factory for 5 days per week (fulltime).

You're the right fit if:

• Recently graduated Masters/Bachelor’s degree Supply Chain/Operations Management/ Mechanical Engineering/Industrial Engineering (emphasis in operations preferred)

• 0-2 years business experience in manufacturing and supply chain within a regulated environment

• Strong communication, planning and organizational skills
• You are interested and/or work with AI

• Team player, passionate for results and people. Supports our highly engaged workforce.

• Pragmatic and Hands on mentality, team player and result driven

• English required and having the motivation to learn Dutch

• Willing to be in the factory location 5 days a week

As a GDP trainee you will receive a 2.5 years, full time employment contract with a yearly all-in salary of €60.763,- with excellent labor conditions. 

Recruitment process

If you are interested in joining the Philips Graduate Development Program, please apply online at the latest on the 13th December 2026, by uploading your CV and/or motivation letter.

• Within 1 week after your application, you will be informed whether you passed the pre-selection round, and if yes, you will be invited to perform a gamified test and video interview.
• After the test and video interview we will come back to you at the latest on the 23rd of December where we will let you know if you will be invited for an online interview with the Early Career Talent Partner, which will take place between 5th and 8th of January 2027.
• You will be informed on the 11th of January 2027 whether you belong to the best performers, and if so, you will be invited for the final face to face interviews, which will take place in Best, between 18th and 22nd of January.
• In the same week, we will share with you the outcome of these interviews.
• Start date will be between 1st February and 1st of March 2027

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