PURPOSE & OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

North America Communications is responsible for SAP’s corporate reputation, press and media relations, executive and employee communications, employee engagement initiatives, and corporate social responsibility across the U.S. and Canada. The team develops strategic messaging and content and engages vital audiences in dialogue to advance SAP’s position. The team:

• Engages with the business through a variety of communication channels, with emphasis on social media and multi-media
• Supports and promotes regional spokespeople and senior executives to increase visibility and influence
• Operates across functions with many different departments to ensure fully-integrated efforts
• Plays a significant role in informing and engaging employees, and motivating them to embrace SAP values and objectives
• Leads the region’s corporate social responsibility initiatives

To complement and balance the team’s contributions to the business, we are searching for a passionate and resourceful intern to add value to the communications team, focusing on the areas of increasing SAP’s visibility externally through executive thought leadership and positioning and content creation for earned and owned media channels that includes compelling customer stories and major industry trends. It’s a great opportunity to work in a large, highly regarded international corporation. If you have the skills, motivation and initiative to help support our communications team, you’re encouraged to apply.

CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED IN NEWTOWN SQUARE AND NEW YORK CITY

EXPECTATIONS & TASKS

• Develop thought leadership blogs and other pieces for SAP senior executives
• Manage social media accounts for several SAP executives
• Create compelling customer stories for placement in earned and owned channels
• Be proactive about generating new industry trend pieces and thought leadership articles based on media climate
• Work as needed on presentations for team leaders, execs, team meetings and other
• Develop creative pieces, infographics, presentations, graphics, videos on an as needed basis or assist colleagues and vendors on the creation of these pieces.
• Work with cross-regional teams on internal articles for their newsletters or corporate portal stories
• Author, review and edit blog posts, press releases and newsbytes as needed, as well as, various employee communications including executive emails
• Work with team to position articles / pieces externally, as well as, leverage internally
• Work with media relations team to understand “beat” of target reporters and generate content / pitches that may be of interest
• Work on media pitching
• Contribute to the generation of periodic reports to showcase outcome of communications programs 
• Maintain organized excels to track progress of team, work, metrics

SKILLS / COMPETENCIES

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (in English), writing portfolio preferred
• Great storytelling/writing skills; video editing/visual storytelling skills, a plus
• Experience with social media and blogging
• Creative and resourceful self-starter who can work independently
• Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Self-driven and attention to detail, resourceful and proactive, demonstrated success in moving projects from start to finish with minimal supervision
• Experience with MS Office software (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)
• Experience working with executives
• Strong attention to detail

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Prefer Journalism, English literature or Communications majors with communications emphasis
• Requires candidates to currently be enrolled in Masters, MBA or PhD degree program which is applicable to the position. Recent grad with a bachelor’s degree may also be considered but master’s preferred. Previous work experience a plus.

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