Saks Fifth Avenue Digital Strategy Internship
Company Description
Hudson’s Bay Company is one of the fastest-growing department store retailers in the world. In North America, HBC’s leading banners include Hudson’s Bay, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, Gilt, Saks OFF 5TH, Find @ Lord & Taylor, and Home Outfitters. In Europe, HBC’s banners include GALERIA Kaufhof (the largest department store group in Germany), Galeria INNO (Belgium’s only department store group), and Sportarena. At HBC we are a company of adventurers who explore uncharted territory, challenge convention, and work with imagination and fun.
Role responsibilities include:
The primary responsibility of the Saks Digital Strategy Intern is to support the Digital Initiatives team in special projects, strategic planning & analysis, and ongoing program management for Saks Fifth Avenue. This unique role will have exposure to senior leadership and allow the intern to take an active role on the team throughout the Fall semester.
A good candidate should:
- Thrive in a fast-paced working environment
- Be able to prioritize competing work-streams, often with quick turnarounds
- Quickly grasp and effectively communicate new or difficult concepts
- Be a collaborative worker with a strong independent drive
- Have an intermediate-advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Be comfortable developing presentations and presenting to the team
- Possess strong attention to detail
Primary Goals:
Program Assistance and Management
- Help pursue identified priority work-streams to drive programs forward for the Saks Digital Initiatives team.
- Participate in key work-streams and task forces; including the pursuit of digital & product innovation and eCommerce operational oversight
- Support the creation of strategic content, coordination across teams and communication of decisions/deadlines
- Support overall program development by overseeing identified deliverables
Special Projects
- Assist in identified special projects that directly impact the Saks digital team
- Support of specific projects will be determined at the time of hire based on project roll out timing and specified need
- Lead and present projects to leadership when identified by the team
Skills & Qualifications
Education
- Current MBA Candidate, local to NY city area
- Must be able to work on site at least 2-3 days a week
Skills – job specific knowledge and abilities, general business acumen, other required skills
- Strong strategic and analytical background
- Proven effective communication skills
- Ability to take complex information and create a compelling and understood narrative
- General understanding of retail and digital organizations
Experience – level or related/unrelated work experience, number of years in prior jobs
- At least 3+ years work experience prior to business school
- Experience working with executive leadership in some capacity
- Previous experience in project management
Competencies – technical or other skills such as position specific software, financial skills, leadership, team building, training
- Exceptional Powerpoint skills, proficient in Excel, Outlook etc.
- Basic understanding of all business functions (Finance, Marketing, Operations, Product etc.)
- Demonstrated capability of leading a cross-functional program
What makes this position unique in our organization?
This is a very unique position within the Saks Fifth Avenue corporate team with extremely high visibility across every functional area of the business. This position will have exposure to, and the ability to influence and inform priorities for the Saks Digital team.