Spring Program 2020

Dear NIMSies and SIMCies!

We proudly present you the NIMS Spring Program! You have the unique opportunity to do a 1-week spring internship at one of ten exciting companies. Our program enables you to be part of an innovative company for one whole week. You’ll not only work on current company challenges but also meet the whole team and get a feeling for the company spirit. Apart from the insights, you’ll get, there’s, of course, the chance of recommending yourself for future employment. Check out all ten partner companies below to see what’s in for you!

DATES:

• Application period is January 20-26
• Spring Program will take place February 24-28

QUICK FACTS:

• ALL NIMS members (i.e. Bocconi, CBS, NHH, WU), as well as current SIMC Master students, are eligible to apply for the program.
• NIMS Vienna will make all efforts to accommodate applicants from outside Vienna without costs. However, this cannot be guaranteed.
• The NIMS Spring Program is an unpaid internship (“Volontariat”).

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Hannes or Benedikt.

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Premium Partner Companies

About us:

i5invest is an international tech M&A, corporate finance advisory & business accelerator. Our primary focus is to support and manage corporate development and cross-border M&A processes for extraordinary tech companies. 

What we offer:

• Analyse and evaluate innovative technologies, models and industry sectors
• Support in the preparation of transaction documents
• Support in the preparation of business plans and company valuations
• Work with the team throughout M&A projects and contribute to the company culture
• Embrace great responsibility by independently managing work packages
• Assist with corporate development deal flow generation

Requirements:

• Relevant work experience (strategy consulting, investment banking or Big 4)
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Deep research capabilities and ability to comprehend and evaluate business models
• Excellent MS-Office skills (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Excellent academic performance combined with extra-curricular activities
• Fluent in English / Additional CEE languages are an advantage 

Location: 

Vienna, Austria

Business Partner Companies

About us:

Porsche Holding has one of the highest turnovers of all Austrian companies and is the largest automobile trading company in Europe. We import and market the brands of the Volkswagen Group, offer financial and after-sales services and also develop our own IT systems. Porsche Holding has grown from a family business to the leading mobility distribution partner and is operating in 22 countries across Europe as well as in Chile, Colombia, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Japan. As a fully-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, our business focuses on the VW Group brands Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge and Porsche as well as Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Ducati.

Your Challenges:

• Innovation as an independent discipline – success factors, competences and resources
• Distribution strategy @ Porsche Holding

Requirements:

• German/English
• Master student
• Previous knowledge: strategy and innovation

Location:

Salzburg, Austria

About us:

We are an established company operating in the whole value-chain of innovation. Our projects range from developing innovation strategies, enabling new programs like intrapreneurship or start-up collaboration, running venture capital fonds and company building. In our company building department, we are building up our own startups, which we want to successfully establish in the market through the know-how we have gained over the years and the expertise we have acquired in management consulting.

Your Challenges:

• Work with us on our current company building projects Woodspace and Gleam. 
• Support us in Project Management as well as preparing a Digital Marketing concept/plan (Woodspace)
• Market segmentation and supporting to develop a growth plan for the German market (GLEAM)
• Support us in sourcing and screening potential investment cases and support us along the due diligence processes
• Be part of our innovation programs and projects

Location:

Vienna, Austria

About us:

Wien Energie is responsible for ensuring the reliable supply of electricity, natural gas and heating to around two million people, 230,000 businesses and industrial facilities, as well as 4,500 farms in the Greater Vienna metropolitan area. Activities also performed by the company include waste recycling, providing energy-related advice and services, facility management, telecommunications. Moreover, Wien Energie is active in a number of projects at a European level.

Your Challenges:

• Accompany our sales trainee and get insights into the area of telecommunications & new business areas
• Get to know and support the nominees of this year's Wien Energie Innovation Challenge (innovation project: WE Box - use of parcel boxes to increase intralogistics at Wien Energie)

Requirements:

•  Fluent in German (Level B1/B2)

Location:

Vienna, Austria

Junior Partner Companies

About us:

Kapsch TrafficCom is a provider of intelligent transportation systems in the fields of tolling, traffic management, smart urban mobility, traffic safety and security and connected vehicles. As a one-stop solutions provider, Kapsch TrafficCom offers end-to-end solutions covering the entire value creation chain of its customers, from components and design to the implementation and operation of systems. The mobility solutions supplied by Kapsch TrafficCom help make road traffic safer and more reliable, efficient, and comfortable in urban areas and on highways alike while helping to reduce pollution.

As part of our ongoing innovation and sustainability efforts, Kapsch TrafficCom invites you to take part on a current project, which aims to reduce single user car use and promote a more ecological friendly commute. Aim of the project is to establish a car-pooling service for our employees, with the potential to extend the service to neighbouring companies.

Your Challenges: 

• Analyse and evaluate potential technology partners together with our innovation team
  
• Design a first concept of the solution
• Calculate a business case and estimate the ecological impact of such a solution for the company and environment
• Create a final presentation on your findings

Requirements:

• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Seeing challenges as opportunities

Location:

Vienna, Austria

About us:

Philips is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, focused in the area of healthcare technology. It currently employs around 74,000 people across 100 countries. Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.

Your Challenges:

• Building a comprehensive competitor benchmark in key product categories.
• Present market findings and insights to group of representative stakeholders.
• Creation and development of customer presentation for new product innovations.

 Location:

Vienna, Austria

About us:

primeCROWD is one of the leading investor networks in the DACH region, revolutionizing and democratizing venture capital. We connect visionary entrepreneurs with both experienced business angels and new investors, that can start investing into startup equity with as little as €10.000. Our investments focus mainly around B2B software companies with tickets ranging from €200.000 to €2Mio. In the last 3 years, we raised over €12M for 22 companies.

Your Challenges:    

• Be a part in the development of a digital strategy that enables us to scale and communicate our USPs
• Sit in in our weekly investment committee and support our investment team
• Be a challenger and innovator for the services we offer to both investors and startups paired with a glance at what our competition is doing.

Requirements:

Prior experience in venture capital/startups a plus, but not mandatory

Location:

Vienna,  Austria

About us:

Teach For Austria's vision is that by 2050 every child in Austria has the chance to live a good life regardless of the income or education of its parents. In no other country within the European Union educational success depends as much on the socioeconomic background and education of the parents as in Austria. Teach For Austria actively wants to change this. Therefore Teach For Austria finds, trains and supports personally and professionally outstanding graduates to become teachers (Fellows) in the most challenging schools and kindergartens. The fellows’ goal is to ensure that every child achieves educational success – a prerequisite for leading a fulfilling and self-determined life. They support the children and young people so they can successfully progress to the next stage of their education– from kindergarten to primary school, and from compulsory secondary education to upper secondary school or an apprenticeship.  

Your Challenges:

• Become part of our team and contribute to educational equity in Austria
• Prepare the upcoming marketing campaign with us
• Work with us to understand and reach specific target groups
• Prepare our biggest recruitment event with us

Location:

Vienna, Austria

About us:

We at TheVentury offer the following three key services to startups and established companies: Innovation Management, Data- & Software Engineering and Growth Marketing. Our work is highly hypothesis-driven, and we believe that having a “build – measure – learn” mindset is the most efficient way to find out what works and what does not from an early stage. This enables us to try out many new things without fearing failure. 50% of our clients are startups who are at different stages. The other half are corporate clients. This puts us in a unique position in the market since we get to transfer know-how across the two target groups, recognize challenges the companies have and offer alternative solutions.

At TheVentury there are three challenges which are the following: 

Description:

First Challenge directly at TheVentury:

Depending on your interests and qualifications (Operations/Finance, Marketing, Tech or Human Resources) your challenges could include:

• Research and test the best recruiting tools together with our People Operations Manager and suggest the best option for TheVentury‘s workflow
• Work closely with our Operations & Finance Manager to  agencies deal with unbillable hours and suggest improvements for our work at TheVentury.
• Boost our Employer Branding by implementing a video strategy, conducting interviews with employees (skills required: creation of concept, video shooting & editing skills). You’ll be working closely with our CMO. 
• Support our tech team in their efforts to develop new voice based interfaces by creating a customer discovery strategy and conducting interviews with visually impaired people. 

Second Challenge from TheVentury at their company BotBase:

About BotBase:

At BotBase, we empower enterprises to automate their communication flows. We do this by providing an all-in-one software platform that allows non-tech-savvy users to manage the whole lifecycle of AI-powered bots without the need of tech-support. As a result, automation can be implemented by employees who are real experts in their specific areas. Since bad user experience is the #1 reason for user frustration, bots created on our platform leverage NLU, NLP and other AI technologies to be capable of conducting human-like conversations. The BotBase Platform can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise and has been successfully implemented in different industries like Insurance & Aviation as well as in various use cases like Sales Support & Customer Service.

Your Challenge:

• Investigate usage of intelligent bots in the insurance industry in Europe.
• Make contextual understanding capabilities of our AI-powered bot-building platform measurable.
• Generate a proposal on how to improve the usability of our AI-powered bot-building platform 

Third Challenge from TheVentury at their company Elevate:

About Elevate:

TheVentury’s acceleration program ELEVATE invests in international startups working on AI & Automation solutions. Our 5-month long program helps startups to validate their business idea, gain traction and gets them ready for their first customers and investors. ELEVATE combines the expertise of validating ideas with the execution power in the fields of IT-Development and Growth Marketing. We work closely with the founders in our program, helping them to develop their product, marketing strategy, branding and anything else they might need. Alumni of our program come from all corners of the world, reaching from Brazil to New Zealand. 

Your Challenge:

• Dive into the world of startup funding & investing, help us research how funds are set up & find out about best practices. Keep a special focus on accelerators who also run a follow-up fund for their portfolio startups. 
• Work with our program manager to refine our portfolio management strategy.

Location:

Vienna,  Austria

About us:

Wonderwerk is a combination of management consultancy, service design studio and innovation laboratory. We are advising businesses, governments, and non-profits. We aim to achieve better results for our clients through innovation, digital transformation and organisational change. In a nutshell, our corporate purpose is to enable strategies and innovations for greater impact. We believe that passion and enjoyment are the most important criteria for sustainable success. Therefore, we create a working environment that releases a lot of creative energy. We are a strongly growing consulting start-up, situated in the heart of Vienna and are looking forward to your application.

Your Challenges:

• #ConsultingProjects - you will work on exciting consulting projects, focused on the topics of innovation, strategy, digitalization and agile management
• #NoHierarchy - you will meet a young, but experienced and energetic team, who will do their best to answer all your questions 
• #StartupCulture - you will have the chance to experience a real start-up working environment in the Vienna city center 

Requirements: 

• #superpowers – high commitment, resilience, reliability, creativity, multi-tasking & good time-management skills and last but definitely not least friendliness
• #business-savvy – good understanding of business-related issues and MS Office skills, in particular Power Point
• #work_hard_play_hard - we celebrate our team’s success appropriately – since you will be part of the team, obviously we are celebrating together
• Since our clients are mostly German speakers, we would highly appreciate applicants with excellent/native German skills

Location:

Vienna, Austria

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