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OVERVIEW
Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC) is focused on hiring the best and brightest talent, and rapidly developing this talent into our future business and technology leaders through accelerated career paths and challenging, yet rewarding opportunities. As part of this effort, Sears Holdings has created a Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP). This program is designed to recruit highly talented, innovative and motivated Masters Degree candidates from top universities and technical programs. We have developed a 10-week TLDP Internship to serve as a pipeline to this full-time program. Members of this program will bring strategic leadership, acute awareness of emerging technology and incredible energy and enthusiasm to lead the strategic efforts of the company and manage high-priority and high-potential initiatives from inception to execution across our Information Technology Businesses.
PROGRAM DESIGN
This 10-week internship program provides unique career opportunities and exposure to the operational and strategic challenges facing the retail industry, Sears Holdings and the Information Technology Businesses. Interns are hired as “cohorts” and are champions of innovation initiatives, entrepreneurial thinkers and catalysts of change. The goal of the program is to infuse Sears Holdings and the Information Technology Businesses with innovative talent and to develop those talented individuals into future technology and business leaders. The ultimate goal is for these individuals to earn a full-time technical position where they will apply transformational, leading-edge systems thinking to everything that we do while continuously challenging status-quo.
OPPORTUNITY SUMMARY
The opportunity will allow you to receive the following:
- Executive sponsorship by the Chairman, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
- Opportunity to lead and execute revolutionary transformation in retail and Sears Holdings
- Unique career development and networking opportunities
- An expectation of value creation and rapid impact
QUALIFICATIONS >>
- Cross-Functional Team Building Skills: ability to build and align cross-functional teams to meet common goals and achieve success
- Champion of Change: has a solutions oriented mind-set and works to initiate and drive needed change
- Entrepreneurial: energetic and innovative; can lead new initiatives from idea generation to execution, develop business models and drive action plans to implementation
- Analytical: must enjoy gathering and digging deeply into data to identify issues and solve problems
- Strong Work Ethic: self-starter able to demonstrate a strong proactive approach and self-initiative; tenacious
- Positive Attitude: commitment to self-improvement and excellence
- Strong Business Acumen: strong financial, strategic, operational and leadership skills; ability to understand business models and key drivers quickly
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills: confidence to interact with senior management to communicate ideas and maturity to succeed through teamwork; willingness to learn from and coach others; ability to build strong relationships both internally and externally
- Project Management, Organizational and Time Management Skills: ability to manage multiple projects, work effectively under tight deadlines and deliver projects on time
- Focused on Results: willingness to do what it takes to get the job done right
- Customer Focused: always puts the customer first and has a customer-centric mind-set when developing ideas and executing projects
* Please review our staffing process to learn how to be considered for any of our college programs.
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