Marketing & Communication Internship

IBM

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Marketing & Communications

Groningen, Netherlands

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

IBM Consulting FutureNow is built for today, shaping what’s next for tomorrow. As part of a global network, the FutureNow Center Netherlands brings together people talent, human intelligence, and AI to help organisations meet the demands of their customers with certainty and agility. It is a living delivery engine where innovation moves fast, knowledge flows, digital assets scale, and human‑digital collaboration drives real impact. Here, delivery becomes smarter, outcomes sharper, and progress measurable—making the world work better today while shaping what comes next. Within this dynamic environment, our center also focuses on creating a strong, connected workplace for the people who bring FutureNow to life. As a Marketing and Communication intern, you will play a key role in strengthening our internal identity and helping us tell the story of who we are—through communication, branding, and events that support our culture, engagement, and growth.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Marketing and Communication intern at the FutureNow Center, you will contribute to shaping the way we communicate and connect within our company. You will work closely with our team to support mainly internal event activities, communication and branding. Your responsibilities include:

  • Taking the lead in creating, improving, and maintaining internal communication across newsletters, Slack, email invitations, and other channels. You also brainstorm and propose new ideas for innovative communication approaches.
  • Helping organize internal events, such as fun activities, sports events, educational sessions, and the monthly internal company meeting.
  • Supporting the organization of external events, such as for example In-House Days for students. This includes coordinating with schools, setting up agendas, and arranging presenters.
  • Taking photos and recording videos during events and turning this content into promotional materials for internal or external use.
  • Designing communication materials based on existing brand guidelines, including posters, flyers, booklets, and other visual assets, and contributing to the implementation of internal marketing and communication strategies that strengthen the FutureNow Center brand.
  • Analysing communication and event activities to understand their impact and suggesting improvements.
  • Availability: 40 hours per week.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; multilingualism is considered an asset.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • A proactive work attitude.
  • Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Ability to work with diverse personalities and cultures.
  • Affinity with visual design.
  • Experience or familiarity with design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite or Figma.
  • Experience with photography and or videography

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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