Internship in the Digital Innovation & Partnerships team for IT, Sales & Marketing from March 2024

Intelligent IT solutions make possible today what was unthinkable a short time ago. As a company, it is therefore important to actively shape technological change and digitalization in order to proactively face the future as an innovator. Our Strategy & Security ITS department deals with key issues relating to IT security, strategic projects such as Shadow IT or TAF partners and innovation topics. Our team’s task is to make sales, marketing and aftersales and the associated IT counterparts fit for the future by giving them access to the most important trends and technologies of tomorrow.

We rely on open innovation here: we proactively screen digital trends and then evaluate the relevance of the trends for Mercedes-Benz. If a trend is relevant to the organization, we connect our internal customers with relevant tech start-ups or established partners and support them in successfully implementing the new solutions. Our Innovation Community is an important tool for innovation management. This is where we network with colleagues who are driving forward innovative projects themselves or want to find out about new technologies. We discuss current trends and promote exchanges with internal and external innovators and start-ups.

Our team consists of six highly motivated and friendly colleagues who are looking forward to working with you!

During your internship, you will drive innovation through cooperation with other start-ups, technology companies and departments. This means you will support us in evaluating trends, scouting technologies and start-ups and managing and scaling the resulting projects. From this, you will derive measures for communication and reporting, independently lead the management of our innovation community and be responsible for content and further development. You will get to know important sources for innovation management, such as reports, trade fairs and innovation events, experience the tasks and challenges of an innovation team hands-on and get the chance to expand your personal network and gain insights into other areas of Mercedes-Benz. One of our most important requirements for you as an intern is the willingness to contribute and drive forward your own ideas. To this end, you will receive support and mentoring from an experienced team member and the opportunity to drive forward innovative topics in the automotive industry.

Your tasks in detail:

• You will research and evaluate digital trends in the areas of marketing, sales and aftersales
• You support the research and evaluation of relevant start-ups and their products
• You create content for our innovation community such as blog posts and interviews
• You plan and organize virtual innovation events and have the opportunity to moderate them
• You create reports and use them to derive goals for our innovation community and further develop the community strategy
• You actively participate in all relevant areas of the team, such as the documentation and maintenance of our wiki, our monthly OKRs planning and our team events

• You are a student in the field of communication or media studies, innovation management, economics or a comparable course of study
• You are enthusiastic about digitalization and new technologies, have a basic understanding of IT and a passion for innovation and cooperation
• Ideally, you already have experience through internships or working student positions in the implementation of new ideas and innovations or in working with start-ups and incubators
• Your strengths include quick comprehension, creative ideas, reliability, an independent way of working, a high degree of flexibility and the ability to work in a team
• You are business fluent in German and English
• You already have some experience with MS Office, collaboration platforms such as Confluence, image editing programs or other social media tools

Additional information:

Of course, we can’t do without formalities. Please apply online only and attach a CV, current certificate of enrollment stating the semester of study, current transcript of records, relevant certificates, proof of mandatory internship if applicable and proof of the standard period of study (max. total size of attachments 5 MB) to your application and mark your application documents as "relevant for this application" in the online form.

Further information on the recruitment criteria can be found "here".

If you are a national of a country outside the European Economic Area, please send us your residence/work permit.

We particularly welcome online applications from severely disabled persons and persons with equivalent disabilities. If you have any questions, you can also contact the site’s representative for severely disabled employees at SBV-Zentrale@mercedes-benz.com, who will be happy to support you in the further application process after your application.

Please understand that we no longer accept paper applications and that there is no entitlement to return postage.

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