Accenture
- Period: 4 – 6 months
- Hours a week: 40
- Location: Gustav Mahlerlaan, Amsterdam
- Start date: February '25
If you like getting to the core of things, you’ve found the right place. At Marketing – Data & AI, we’re a bunch of bright, optimistic individuals that work together to turn data into digestible insights. From collecting, data engineering and analyzing, to modelling, visualizing and pitching; we do it all. During your thesis internship, you will become a true member of our team, having the chance to tap into the experience of our experts in many fields, and join us on our engagement events.
- Team As a Data&AI intern, you'll join our innovative crew focused on leveraging Marketing Technology platforms and strategies to enable the infrastructure that drives relevant brand experiences and campaigns. You will collaborate with our consultants, who strategize, ideate, implement, help to adopt, and bridge the gap between business and tech for our clients.
- Daily tasks Defining problem statement: Connect with stakeholders to understand their needs, understanding the correct and complete research question to be addressed. Dive in data collection: Gathering, cleaning, and organizing relevant data from various sources, ensuring data integrity and quality for analysis. Data engineering: Perform data preprocessing tasks such as data cleaning, transformation, and feature engineering to prepare the data for modeling and analysis. Modeling and data analysis: Sharpen your research by applying statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms, or other analytical approaches to uncover patterns, trends, and insights within the data, and iteratively refine models to improve accuracy. Data visualization: Make your insights digestible by creating informative and visually appealing data visualizations, utilizing tools such as Tableau or Google Data Studio, to effectively communicate findings and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Research As a research intern at the Marketing – Data & AI team, your primary objective will be to explore an effective approach to improve results for lead generation. You’ll have the freedom to dive into what you find to be an effective approach. Our suggestions are towards: Artificial Intelligence for personalization, Customer segmentation, Forecasting techniques, such as propensity modeling, Natural Language Processing, such as sentiment analysis.
- Interested? If you are interested, please provide us with a motivational letter where you propose a research topic. You can upload your motivation letter together with your resume in our Workday system.
As part of your internship, you will also take part in Song Talent Factory. This program will be leading you through your path at Accenture Song and will provide additional engagements, activities and projects to enhance your intern experience. Being part of the Song Talent Factory, you will:
- Get professional guidance on finding the next step in your career;
- Get expert support on your thesis topic while leveraging all Accenture resources;
- Be part of one Song program where you are required to collaborate with other interns at Accenture Song from our different offerings (Commerce, Design & Digital Product Creation, Marketing and Consumer Services);
- Work on a large internship long consulting project together with your STF group. This will allow you to not just get a glimpse of one of the four capabilities, but you will really get to see everything Accenture Song has to offer;
- Be part of the Accenture Song community through companywide and intern specific engagement events
- Enjoy the wide variety of training opportunities;
From building an app for coffee catch-ups to dinners after work, the Song Talent Factory will make your experience at Accenture Song even more enjoyable!
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product, and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy and campaign, content and channel orchestration. Join us and bring to life bold ideas with the biggest impact through the unlimited potential of creativity, technology, and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song.
Song is one of five services that make up one Accenture – the others are Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, and Industry X.
Here's what you'll need
- You are currently enrolled as a bachelor (HBO/WO) or master student in a Dutch educational institution throughout the entire duration of the internship.
- You have affinity with (big) data. Analytics, data science and/or machine learning are key areas that interest you. Experience with Google Analytics, BigQuery, Python or SQL would be a plus. However, don’t hesitate to apply if you’re new to any of these.
- You are naturally curious, eager to learn and willing to learn new tools, techniques, and technologies.
- You’re able to extract meaningful insights from data and communicate them in a digestible manner.
- You have a willingness to deepen or develop skills in presenting and pitching research outcomes.
- The bigger picture is important to you. Context and goals of business processes are important to you as you help align data science with business goals.
- Fluent in Dutch (spoken and written) and comfortable with English (spoken and written).
Accenture is a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Our people are Change Makers, and to support them as an employer, we make five promises:
- Work with flexibility, in a culture based on trust
- Embrace a sustainable growth mindset
- Live a human-led culture of Inclusion & Diversity by caring deeply for all our people.
- Lead and transform our clients with technology
- Connect with our global network of 700.000 colleagues.
These promises are reflected through our excellent employee benefits, including:
- Career guidance (and academical support) facilitated by your individual appointed People Lead.
- You will receive internship allowance and a laptop
- Social activities like Friday Drinks, sport events and parties
- Unique chance to experience the real-life job of a consultant Accenture from the inside
- Membership of our Internship Community which will give you the chance to attend lunch lectures, classroom workshop and build your network within Accenture
Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. Our leaders are committed to building a better, stronger and more equitable company for future generations to create positive, long-lasting change. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.
Our position as partner to many of the world’s leading businesses, organizations and governments affords us both an extraordinary opportunity and a tremendous responsibility to make a difference. Sustainability is one of our greatest responsibilities, which we embed it into everything we do and for everyone we work with.