SAP SAP iXp Intern - Communications Specialist Vancouver 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

834293823

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

Expected Start Date: June 2024

Contract Duration: 8 months

Work Hours: 40 hours per week

The Communications Specialist for SAP Labs Montreal helps to drive local on-site engagement and a sense of pride and identity for employees through creative and consistent communication projects:

• Serve as the main internal communications support for SAP Labs Vancouver (collaborating with the communications support for SAP Labs Waterloo, and SAP Labs Montreal)
• Develop and execute a strategy for onsite signage for the Montreal office
• Contribute to the production of our weekly newsletters across SAP Labs Canada
• 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 compelling, and effective graphic design and marketing collateral, including team and event branding. Approach all communications with a visual branding lens where applicable.
• Create and manage engaging virtual events
• Support annual marquee events (e.g., all-hands meetings, employee award ceremonies) including marketing materials, agenda content, coordination, and speaker preparation
• Provide administrative support for Managing Director office as necessary: handling correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, calendar scheduling and coordinating meeting logistics, etc.
• Other communication/administration duties/projects as assigned
• Create effective and engaging campaigns for our social media channels
• Take a journalistic approach to find, pitch, and write great stories from SAP Labs Canada to share across internal and external channels
  

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 lifelong learning.

• Additionally, you understand that great communication, brand building, and storytelling come from knowing and having empathy for your audience
• A great relationship builder, face-to-face and virtually
• Excellent communication skills including:
  • Fluent in both oral and written English is a requirement; fluency in oral and written French is a strong differentiator
  • A great eye for graphic design. Not afraid to make PowerPoints look beautiful
  • Experience with Adobe Illustrator or similar
  • Photoshop and InDesign experience is a strong asset
  • Experience with marketing email tools like MailChimp
  • Experience with Canva and producing dynamic assets
  • Experience with building out campaign plans and pitching ideas
  • Event coordination (online and in-person)
  • Understands how to message across different lines of business and cultures; Approaches writing, design, and storytelling with empathy for audience
  • Able to turn ideas and concepts into visually relevant and effective material
  • Understands and can implement change management/communications initiatives
  • Excellent Word and PowerPoint skills. Basic Excel skills
  • Videography, editing, and production are definite assets
  • Shows initiative to solve challenges and collaborate with others on solutions
• Exercises mature judgement and handles situations with diplomacy and tact
• Welcoming of feedback and suggestions
• Must be able to keep confidences with private and/or confidential information
• Organized, detail-oriented and can manage time effectively with top-notch prioritization skills
• 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
• Experience in the tech industry is an asset.
• Willing to commit for an 8-month, full-time internship
• Pursuing Bachelor’s or Master’s in Business Communication or Marketing
  

By joining SAP Labs Canada, you’ll be a part of an award-winning work culture as demonstrated in the 23 awards won in 2023. Some of these awards won are “Best Places to Work in Canada” by Glassdoor and “Canada’s Greenest Employers”, “Canada's Best Diversity Employers”, “Canada’s Top Employers for Young People” by Top 100.