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Retail Internship
Adidas Group
Portland, OR, United States
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At adidas, interesting, amazing, and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They’re what we do.
If you have a passion for sport and fashion and are currently a Junior or Senior in a Retail or Business Management Program, we encourage you to apply for a Retail Management Internship with adidas! adidas is hiring interns with a focus on retail corporate operations and store leadership for our Summer 2017 program, which will take place at our adidas North America Headquarters in Portland, Oregon.
Very few internships will provide the foundation for your career like this one.
Objective
adidas aims to provide interns with a comprehensive learning experience in retail corporate functions while assessing the intern’s capability for future potential within the adidas organization.
Job Profile
As a Retail Intern, you’ll…
• Gain hands-on experience in retail back office functions while spending a week of your internship working at the adidas Village Employee Store
• Participate in retail corporate training within Merchandising, Marketing, Operations and Business Development
• Lead a business project within a specific retail function
• Work collaboratively across retail functions and business units
• Present your business project results to the GM of Direct-to-Consumer and the Senior Leadership Team
Key relationships include: Internship Coordinator, Divisional Sponsor, Senior Retail Leaders, and the GM of Direct-to-Consumer.
Your Profile
We are looking for someone with a broad understanding and interest in all areas of retail corporate operations and retail store leadership.
• A successful candidate is an adidas brand fan and has strong knowledge and/or participation in sports, fitness, and fashion.
• Strong communication, organization, and computer skills and the ability to research and compile data.
• Knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications (Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Outlook and Word). Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills preferred.
• Must be proactive and hungry to learn new techniques and technologies.
• Ability to operate in a fast paced, ever changing work environment working collaboratively with and leading others.
• Experience leading small to mid-sized teams and/or holding a leadership position is a plus.
• You must be a Junior, Senior or a recently graduated student with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above from a 4 year university.
Joining the adidas Group Team
At adidas Group, we encourage our employees to challenge themselves every day and to strive for more than they thought they were capable of. Our internship program is no different. We provide our interns with a world class learning experience in a great working environment. Some of the benefits include:
• Hourly compensation
• Company Sports
• Employee Discounts
• Personal Development and Training
• And More
adidas' founder, Adi Dassler, was inspired by a single idea when he made his first shoes, at the age of just 20: to provide every athlete with the best footwear for his or her respective discipline. And 90 years later, we have almost 43,000 employees worldwide who put this same passion and commitment to innovation into each concept, component, process and product we produce.
Our mission is to be the leading sports brand in the world. At adidas we understand it takes a village to accomplish this mission. adidas provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, mental or physical disability, or any other protected status unrelated to the performance of the work involved. You may have heard us say "adidas is all in" or "Celebrate Originality"; to us, these phrases are more than just words. If you share this same passion then apply today!