SAP iXp Intern - Digital Media & Communications Specialist

SAP • co-op • Remote (Vancouver, BC, CA) • 1d ago

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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

Culture of collaboration: 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.

What you’ll do

Position Title: SAP iXp Intern – Digital Media & Communications Specialist

Location: 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 visits and marquee events while managing their logistics including marketing 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.

Meet your team

SAP Labs Canada is made up of over 2500 employees who live to innovate! Coast-to-coast, we have research and development Labs in Montreal, Waterloo and Vancouver. Our best-in-class solutions serve more than 9000 customers, in 25 industries and makes up 85 percent of the global fortune 500.

This role will report into the office of the Managing Director for SAP Labs Canada. The Labs Canada Team’s expertise shines through in their exceptional delivery of strategic operations and communication for their stakeholders, the majority of which are developers across Canada and at times, across the globe. We power engaging events, employee communications, learning opportunities, strategic operations, and much more with the mission to ignite and showcase the amazing employee brand of SAP Labs Canada, share our best practices with our larger SAP network, and foster a culture of innovation across all our locations.

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”

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.

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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 - 36(CAD) 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