Sustainability Employee Engagement and Internal Communications Associate/Specialist

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

Join our Corporate Sustainability team as a Sustainability Communication Specialist, where you'll actively contribute to the success of SAP’s environmental and social initiatives. This role is focused on driving the execution of communication activities.

What you'll do:

• Internal Communication Strategies and Campaigns: Designing and implementing communication strategies and campaigns that support the targeted rollout of key sustainability programs and deliverables and/or elevate awareness and engagement around sustainability, fostering a strong sustainability culture within SAP.
• Content Creation: Craft engaging content for various communication channels, such as intranet, webpage, newsletters, presentations and social media to highlight sustainability projects and achievements. Develop tailored narratives and key messages that resonate with different departments, ensuring sustainability becomes a relevant aspect of each employee's role.
• Global Network Coordination: Orchestrate the global network of SAP’s Sustainability Champions, who lead local initiatives and play active roles in Environmental Management Systems. Facilitate regular communication and collaboration among these champions to share best practices and drive global impact.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate closely across own team and with other teams, like Global Communication to keep key audiences informed of SAP’s sustainability journey.
• Email Inbox Management: Co-Manage the "SAP Sustainability" anonymous email inbox, responding to inquiries from customers, employees, suppliers, and external invitations. Collaborate with colleagues to ensure consistent and timely communication.

What you bring:

• Educational Background: Degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, Sustainability, or a related field, fostering strategic communication insights.
• Communicative Excellence: Exceptional skills in crafting clear, engaging, and persuasive messages in English for diverse audiences.
• Solid organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple communication initiatives simultaneously, ensuring timely and effective execution.
• Collaborative and Influential: Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, possessing intercultural sensitivity and the skills to influence without direct authority.
• Creative and Innovative thinker, curious and eager to learn
• Genuine interest and curiosity in sustainability and its business impact.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and skills in leveraging digital platforms effectively.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Supporting SAP’s purpose to help the world run better and improving people’s lives, the global Sustainability Team is on a mission to transform SAP to a role model of a sustainable company and create positive economic, environmental, and social impact within planetary boundaries. The team collaborates with all internal lines of business and works on embedding sustainability further into SAP’s corporate strategy, product and service portfolio, policies, processes, practices, and everything we do. This means improving the sustainability performance of our own operations, driving customer impact creation, and stimulating new sustainability initiatives across the organization. We warmly invite you to become part of our team and shape SAP’s sustainability journey together with us.

The Sustainability Team offers you to…

• work with a self-managing team who is supportive, passionate about their work and eager to initiate and embrace positive change.
• become part of a highly dynamic, important, and demanding professional field.
• receive strong mentorship from experienced colleagues within the team, especially in the beginning.
• expand your professional network by collaborating with diverse, international stakeholders.
• gain and share valuable insights across a broad variety of sustainability topics ranging from climate action, circular economy, holistic steering, and reporting to ethical business practices.
• increase your project management skills and expand your professional network.

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​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
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 421566  | Work Area: Finance  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Graduate  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.