We strive to make cities the best ever places to live, by advancing an industry that moves over 1 billion people each day. We are transforming our business by driving the industry norm and challenging ourselves, fostering a culture of internal and external collaboration, and building on our unique engineering capabilities to optimize existing and create new products and solutions for our customers that cater to real mobility needs.

With customers in over 100 countries served by more than 50,000 employees, TK Elevator achieved sales of around €8 billion in the fiscal year 2020/2021. Over 1,000 locations around the world provide an extensive network that guarantees closeness to customers. Over the past decades, TK Elevator has established itself as one of the world’s leading elevator companies and became independent since its separation from thyssenkrupp AG in August 2020. The company’s most important business line is the service business represented by over 24,000 service technicians. The product portfolio covers commodity elevators for residential and commercial buildings to cutting-edge, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers. In addition, it also consists of escalators and moving walks, passenger boarding bridges, stair and platform lifts. Integrated cloud-based service solutions, such as the MAX platform, are gaining in importance. With these digital offerings, there are no limits to urban mobility anymore. TKE – move beyond.

The Team: Business Transformation & Strategy (BTS)

We are a team of highly skilled and motivated problem-solvers who envision the future and drive positive transformation within the company. We play a vital role in setting and implementing the global strategy of TKE. We work closely with different central functions and regional teams to turn plans into action. We are grouped into two sub-teams that collaborate closely based on the topic at hand. The ‘Business Transformation’ sub-team primarily oversees project portfolio management and value creation projects; and the ‘Strategy’ team focuses on topics related to market intelligence, strategy, organization and board office.

As Working Student (d/f/m) BTS you will contribute to and experience strategic work in a highly international environment. You will be a part of the ‘Strategy’ sub-team and provide support to the overall BTS team to:

• Conduct market/competitor research and deduce implications for TKE globally
• Identify and analyze trends/changes/disruptions, especially in the area of digitalization, to substantiate strategic conclusions
• Support preparation of market intelligence reports and other strategy presentations for the top management
• Support the annual global Market Query process with more than 50 countries
• Support international strategic value creation projects (e.g. preparing work breakdown structure, timeline, resource plan, meeting preparation & follow-up)
• Conduct & support content management and further development of internal tools and databases for market intelligence, reporting and project tracking (Project Portfolio Management & Tracking tool) in close cooperation with regional teams

• Student of business administration, industrial engineering or equivalent at a university or university of applied sciences
• First experience in the area of business development, project management and/or consulting is a plus
• Affinity for IT and digitalization-related topics
• Interest in quantitative and qualitative research
• Top-notch conceptual and analytical skills to be able to cope with a great variety and diversity of topics
• High degree of autonomy and sense of responsibility
• Team player with good social and communication skills to be able to work in diverse team constellations
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 applications with advanced MS Excel/PowerPoint skills; Power BI proficiency is a plus
• Fluent English (written & spoken) required; Knowledge of German/another foreign language is a plus

It goes without saying, that we offer attractive conditions such as:

• Working in a successful organization with lean hierarchies and all the advantages of an international group.
• With us, you experience an exciting work environment in interdisciplinary and multinational teams

If this is as important to you as it is to us, then we are looking forward to your application!

We value diversity. Therefore, we welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.