Internship Summary
Are you looking for an internship that provides real life experience?
Phoenix Contact's Corporate Management Team is seeking a highly analytical and business-oriented Data Science & Analytics Intern to support strategic initiatives across Product Management, Operations, Sales, and Marketing. This role is ideal for students who enjoy combining technical data skills with business problem solving to identify trends, uncover opportunities, and recommend actions.
Our Fall (Sept – Dec) interns work full time with the opportunity to continue through Spring. We strongly prefer candidates who can work onsite regularly to accelerate learning, collaboration, and business understanding.
What does a typical day look like?
Onsite Day
- Meet with Product Management, Operations, Manufacturing, Sales, or AEP teams to understand business challenges and decision-making needs.
- Analyze customer, product, pricing, operations, supply chain, and financial data to identify trends, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
- Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches.
- Work directly with leadership and subject matter experts to understand product portfolios, operational processes, and customer dynamics.
- Build dashboards, predictive models, business cases, and executive-level recommendations.
- Present findings, risks, and recommended actions to stakeholders.
Remote day:
- Deep analytical work including:
- Data mining and exploration
- Statistical analysis
- Predictive modeling
- Data cleansing and transformation
- AI-assisted analytics and automation
- Develop Power BI dashboards and self-service reporting tools.
- Prepare executive-ready presentations and recommendations.
- Document assumptions, methodologies, and business insights
What makes this internship unique?
Phoenix Contact is a global technology leader where interns work on real business challenges that impact customers, products, and operations. Unlike many internships focused solely on reporting, you will:
- Work directly with Product Managers, Operations Leaders, and Executive stakeholders.
- Gain exposure to product management, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, customer trends, and strategic planning.
- Learn how data drives investment, pricing, portfolio, and operational decisions.
- Apply AI, analytics, and business intelligence tools in a real enterprise environment.
- Present insights and recommendations to leadership.
- Build a portfolio of meaningful business analytics projects.
- Be considered for future Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Product Analyst, Product Manager, or Business Intelligence roles.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in:
- Data Science
- Analytics
- Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Industrial Engineering
- Statistics
- Applied Mathematics
- Business Analytics
- Advanced Excel skills including Power Query, Pivot Tables, and data modeling
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, or similar BI platforms
- Strong SQL and database fundamentals
- Experience with Python, R, or other analytical programming languages preferred
- Experience using AI productivity and analysis tools (Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions
- Comfortable presenting insights and recommendations to business stakeholders
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn products, markets, and operational processes quickly
Essential Job Functions
- Look at a computer screen for extended periods of time (up to 4 hours)
- Sit and/or stand for extended periods of time (2-4 hours at a time)
- Commute to Middletown, PA office
- Ontime and regular attendance
Application Process
Interns at Phoenix Contact are employed by Kelly Services.
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Phoenix Contact is committed to the diversity of our employees. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.
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Notice to Staffing Agencies, Placement Services, and Professional Recruiters:
Phoenix Contact has an internal Staffing Department. Recruiters are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact Phoenix Contact employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. Phoenix Contact will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Phoenix Contact, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Phoenix Contact mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Phoenix Contact employees, or to Phoenix Contact’s resume database will be considered Phoenix Contact property. Phoenix Contact will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Phoenix Contact will consider any candidate for whom a Recruiter has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Recruiter free of any charges or fees. Phoenix Contact will not pay a fee to any Recruiter that does not have a signed Phoenix Contact contract in place specific to the position for which the resume was submitted. Recruiting vendor agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Phoenix Contact's Head of People & Organization or his or her designee. No other Phoenix Contact employee is authorized to bind Phoenix Contact to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Recruiters. By submitting a candidate to Phoenix Contact, recruiters agree to be bound and comply with this policy.
Skills Required
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or Business Analytics
- Advanced Excel skills, including Power Query, Pivot Tables, and data modeling
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, or a similar business intelligence platform
- Strong SQL and database fundamentals
- Experience with Python, R, or other analytical programming languages
- Experience using AI productivity and analysis tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions
- Comfort presenting insights and recommendations to business stakeholders
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn products, markets, and operational processes quickly
- Ability to commute to the Middletown, Pennsylvania office and work onsite regularly
- On-time and regular attendance
- Ability to look at a computer screen for extended periods, up to four hours
- Ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods, two to four hours at a time
What We Do
Phoenix Contact is an independent, global market leader with headquarters in Blomberg, Germany. More than 20,000 enthusiastic people around the world develop, produce, and sell our creative solutions in connection technology, electronics, and automation. The "Phoenix terminals" and "Phoenix connectors" are known worldwide. We see our work as a contribution to designing a smart world. A global network in more than 100 countries guarantees the important proximity to our customers. Our innovative products and solutions are characterized by high quality. Users in many industrial fields – electric-mobility, mechanical engineering, wind energy, solar energy, building automation, cyber security, automotive – trust Phoenix Contact products. Here you will find important information and news about Industry 4.0 (Smart Factory, Internet of Things), building management, e-mobility, energy transfer and many other areas in which you will find Phoenix Contact products. The success of the company is primarily based on our employees’ performance. Become part of the team and shape the future with us. Find the right opportunity in our job offer and pursue your career at Phoenix Contact
