SAP Ixp Intern - Communications & Events Specialist

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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

About the SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP's global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

Three reasons to intern at SAP

1. Culture of collaboration: meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.
2. Project-driven experience: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables.
3. Gain visibility: with SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you'll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

What you'll do

Position Title: SAP iXp Intern - Communications & Events Specialist
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Expected start date to end date: February 2025 - September 2025 (flexible)
Duration of Internship: 8 months

• Serve as the main internal communications support for the Customer Innovation Services team in Americas, aligning with the global comms strategy and teammates in Europe and India.
• Create compelling and engaging content across a multi-channel environment.
• Create and manage events (in-person, virtual and hybrid)
• Take part in planning, promoting, and executing on national events as needed.
• Support in running annual marquee events (e.g. all-hands meetings, executive visits, holiday party, summer party) including marketing materials, meeting content, coordination, and speaker preparation.
• Create and manage detailed project plans, timelines and budgets, and execute end-to-end
• Define project scope and objectives, determine a work plan for team members to support events as needed, track event performance periodically and identify areas for improvement
• Create compelling and effective graphic designs and marketing collateral, including digital signage, SharePoint landing pages, e-mail banners, newsletters and event branding
• Channel your inner journalist to share great stories from Customer Innovation Services in Americas and at times, externally.
• Turn great event recaps into social media shareables.
• Provide logistics support for CIS Americas team as necessary: liaising with event suppliers, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and coordinating meeting logistics, etc.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal partners (e.g. IT, Facilities, Security) as well as external SAP vendors such as caterers and event companies.
• Other communication/administration duties/projects as assigned.

What you bring

We're looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

• Demonstrates excellent communication skills:
• Fluent in both oral and written English, French language a differentiator.
• Understands business writing style.
• Understands how to message across different audiences.
• Able to turn ideas and concepts into visually relevant and effective material.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Thinks like a marketer when it comes to events.
• Shows initiative and leadership to run projects and solve challenges.
• Event coordination (online, in-person and hybrid) and project management
• Welcomes feedback and suggestions.
• Exercises mature judgement and handles situations with diplomacy and tact. Keeps private or sensitive information confidential.
• Is organized, detail-oriented and knows how to prioritize tasks.
• Excellent Word and PowerPoint skills. Basic Excel skills
• Excited about Graphic Design. Knowledgeable about industry trends in branding.
• Experience with one of the following: Canva, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Videography, editing and production skills a plus.
• Has a bachelor's degree in (or pursuit of) Communications, Marketing or equivalent
• This role is best for someone in their second co-op term, or beyond
• Past experience in the tech industry is an asset.
• Willing to commit for a full-time internship.
  

Meet your team

What do you think about being part of an innovative, dynamic, and collaborative development environment, helping world-class enterprises to solve their most complex business challenges, blaze disruptive new trails and bring their company's vision to life?

At Customer Innovation Services, with a cloud mindset, embedded in architecture and technology, we will build cloud solutions that meet future needs, whether for integration, data models, intelligent technologies, or platform requirements. It is pivotal that we consider all elements essential for building solutions as part of the Intelligent Enterprise landscape.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the hourly base salary rate range applicable for the posted role. The targeted range for this position is 18.00 - 40.00 CAD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidates will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. SAP offers limited benefits for employees hired into hourly or like roles subject to appliable plan/policy terms. A summary of benefits and eligibility requirements can be found by clicking this link: www.SAPNorthAmericaBenefits.com.

Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in the Quebec.

Requisition ID: 412756 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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