Capstone Project

**CAPSTONE PROJECT**

**_SPC Strategy for Post-Secondary Students_**

**Start Date**: February 20, 2023

Hours Required: 5-10 hours a week

Location: Canada

**Summary**
- sleeves work ethic, works well in a team environment, is adaptable to change and is curious to learn about all aspects of the business.

You will work with our Educational Partnerships team to develop a marketing and sales plan to engage University and College students on Campus. You are responsible for collaborating with your team, along with the SPC leads to collectively prepare research, overall analysis, marketing and sales plans. The capstone presentation will include the overall strategy on how to intercept students on campus digitally and or physically and get them to become SPC members.

**Project Details**:

- Understanding SPC’s business model
- Working collaboratively with students in your group
- Attend project meetings as required.
- Taking ownership of various component of the project
- Recommend new ideas for strengthening our brand within universities and colleges.
- Prepare student research study questions and conduct the studies.
- Build a solid Campus distribution plan.
- Build a marketing plan for students on Campus
- Present to the SPC leadership team.

**Who You Are**:

- **Entrepreneurial** - ability to identify opportunities and take risks to create something out of nothing.
- **Analytical**: able to think deeply and critically about a situation, process information, and come to logical conclusions. You have a keen eye for detail and can break down complex issues into more manageable and understandable concepts.
- **Initiative**: adopts a proactive attitude and is the first to come up with plans and ideas, not afraid of failure and is always looking for ways to improve and innovate
- **Creativity**: restructures data and ideas in order to achieve innovative or alternative approaches
- **Problem Solving**: reviews problems by asking direct questions and using various relevant information sources

**Requirements**:

- 3rd or 4th years student currently enrolled in Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Marketing, Global Management, Retail Management, Business Admin or related
- Experience in research and development
- Passionate about marketing and entrepreneurship
- Strong project management skills
- Solutions focused perspective
- Ability to work well in a team environment and independently
- Strong storytelling from data
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
- past marketing assignment - case studies, capstone projects etc.
- portfolio including marketing projects

**About SPC**

We're on a mission to improve Student Life - save students money and teach them how to shop smart SPC connects students to the best brands and gives them access to exclusive discounts on relevant products, services and experiences. In turn, we provide our partners with a loyal base of student shoppers.

Our team
- a creative, team-first attitude motivated with grassroots thinking that focuses on the solution of bringing value to students, with our people at the center of all that we do. We are all about ownership, giving each member the tools, support, and freedom to succeed. We value building careers with an eager to learn attitude to support each other’s success - inside and outside the organization. We are fun, scrappy, and aren't afraid to take risks. If this sounds like a team, you'd like to be a part of get in touch

SPC is looking for a student that has the ability to impact the business by offering knowledge of the most current trends to market to our demographic and are able to participate in our Brain Factory in which the staff contribute to research, development of programs and content.

Our recruitment program with students is flexible, with a strong focus on cultural fit, strong business acumen and professionalism that offers a variety of opportunities. If you describe yourself as a self - starter, someone who likes to take on challenges, strong business acumen, and have creative ideas on how to impact the gen-z demographic - the student role is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable inclusive experience through mentorship opportunities and real-world experience.

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**Job Type**: Contract