Purpose and Objectives
You should apply to the program if:
- You are passionate about how businesses work, the role enterprise technology has, and its impact on business and people
- Want to understand global/industry trends and how they change the businesses.
- You would like to network with mentors, make new friends, and attend six learning sessions from diverse subject matter experts where you learn about the soft skills of consultancy and advisory.
- You want access to a global network of highly experienced people consisting of SAP leaders and entrepreneurs, and career development opportunities at your fingertips.
Industry Value Advisory (IVA) Intern
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Time schedule:full-time
1st February 2025
Through this role you will
- Work together with different people from the team and get to see different industries and clients within NL
- Support demand generation activities through rigorous research and analysis of markets, industries, and specific accounts
- Utilize your problem-solving skills to solve real business challenges for multinational and regional customers
- Actively participate in demand generation and sales strategic planning meetings, taking ownership of follow-up actions and deliverables
- Have the opportunity to shape your experience based on your interests and skills
- Get the opportunity to advise clients in the translation of their strategy
- Develop an understanding of the role of SAP technology in enabling future business strategies
- Leverage your creative skills in a business environment
- Develop analytical skills, mastering techniques such as facilitation, issue identification and cost-benefit calculation
- Bring the pyramid principle of McKinsey in reality developing clear, structured and high-quality storylines
- Deliver crisp presentations to small and large audiences and deal elegantly with objections.
- Learn the McKinsey methodology in problem solving
Tasks and Expectations
- Analyze our customers vision, strategy and goals through desk research and support the organization in translating/mapping them into capabilities
- Understand and apply value-selling methods, benchmarking, and tools to deliver comprehensive value propositions and business content with clear ROI/TCO for customers
- Liaise with the SAP ecosystem to drive select demand generation activities
- Drive innovation in existing deliverables to increase effectiveness
- Responsible for analyzing market potential and the SAP position in this market
- Collect best practices from other countries and specific learnings for the Dutch market.
- Research DMU’s of the SAP key customers and their attitude towards IT and SAP in particularly
- Bring fresh, creative thinking to demand generation efforts, recommend improvements in current engagement processes and operations
Education and Qualifications / Skills and Competencies
- WO/Master student in the field of Business, Economics and Management
- Firm understanding of business processes
- Business acumen to understand financial reports and build business cases
- Creativity and a zeal for excellence
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy
- Design, presentation, and communication skills
- Ability to manage and prioritize own workload in context of multiple deliverables with overlapping timelines
- Team player and high energy level
- Inquisitive and unafraid to ask questions, but also suggest ideas and recommend solutions
- Proactiveness
- Ability to seek out resources and information in a complex organization independently
- Fluency in spoken and written English
What to know about the application process
If you are interested in the opportunity, please enclose an English resume and a motivational letter that includes a brief overview of your current understanding of the IVA internship. Specifically, address:
- What aspects of the internship would be the most and least enjoyable for you.
- Why you believe the SAP IVA internship is a great fit for you.
Next steps
After submitting a qualified application, you will be contacted to move forward with an interview. If you are shortlisted, you can expect to participate in an exciting in person job day on December 3rd, 2024.