- meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.
- Project-driven experience:gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables.
- 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.
Position Title:
Vancouver, BC
Expected Start Date:February 3, 2024
Contract Duration:8-12 Months
Work Hours:40 hours per week
The Communications Specialist for SAP Labs Vancouver reports into the national lead for SAP Labs Canada communications and sits within the office of the Managing Director for SAP Labs Canada. This role helps to drive local on-site engagement and a sense of pride and identity for employees through creative and recurring communication projects:
- Be the main point of contact for internal communications support for SAP Labs Vancouver. This includes handling onsite digital advertisement, including newsletters across SAP Labs Canada and our intranet channels.
- Work on national SAP Labs Canada communication assets alongside SAP Labs Montreal and Waterloo, including board reports and fully producing a quarterly video series delivering news and highlights to SAP Labs Canada employees.
- Work with the Managing Director’s office, executive team, and employee engagement groups to deliver communications that focus on regular, consistent, and engaging messaging for employees as well as advocating for the information needs of employees.
- Create engaging in-person and virtual events, including executive visitsandmarquee events while managing their logistics includingmarketing materials, digital sinage, agenda content, speaker preparation, and briefs.
- Create compelling and effective graphic design and marketing collateral .
- Take a journalistic approach to find, pitch, and write great stories from SAP Labs Canada to share internally and externally through campaigns such as LinkedIn.
- Provide administrative support for Managing Director office as necessary: handling correspondence, receiving visitors, scheduling and coordinating meeting logistics, etc.
What you bring
We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stay curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by solving problems through creative solutions. Additionally, you understand that great communication, brand building, and storytelling come from knowing your audience. These are the qualities you bring to make you and our team successful:
- Bachelor’s degree in (or in pursuit of) Communications, Marketing or equivalent.
- Experience with digital media and design tools:
- Experience editing in a non-linear editing software like Adobe Premiere or equivalent.
- Experience setting up video equipment.
- Experience using motion graphics software like Adobe After Effects or equivalent is an asset.
- A great eye for graphic design. Whether it’s built in an elegant design tool like Adobe Illustrator/InDesign or Microsoft PowerPoint – the result is always beautiful. Experience with Canva is an asset.
- Experience with marketing email tools like MailChimp is an asset.
- Excellent communication skills including:
- Strong writing skills. Familiarity with APA format and a sense of business acumen.
- Fluent in both oral and written English is a requirement; fluency in oral and written French is an asset.
- Experience with event coordination (online and in-person)
- Experience with building out campaign plans and pitching ideas with the ability to turn ideas and concepts into visually relevant and effective material.
- Understands how to message across different lines of business and cultures; Approaches writing, design, and storytelling with empathy for audience.
- Proactive and detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving, decision-making, communication, organizational, and time management skills
- Personable and open-minded, with the ability to recognize and keep confidences with private and/or confidential information.
- Experience in the tech industry is an asset.
By joining SAP Labs Canada, you’ll be a part of an award-winning work culture as demonstrated in the 17 top employer awards won in 2024. Some of these awards won are “Canada’s Top Employers for Young People” by Top 100, “Best Places to Work in Canada” by Glassdoor and “Canada’s Greenest Employers”, “Canada's Best Diversity Employers”