Internships - Corporate - Summer 2023

maurices is a women's apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It's committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life's adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at https://www.maurices.com. California Applicants: Click to view our Privacy Notice for California Employment Applicants. Brand Overview: maurices is a women’s apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It’s committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life’s adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at maurices.com. Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a Internships - Corporate - Summer 2023 to join our team located at our Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802. Ready to help bring feel good fashion for real life™ to hometowns across North America? Join our family of amazing individuals in our corporate office in Duluth, Minnesota, ranked one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2019. Since 1931, we’ve helped women look and feel their best every day — making maurices not only a special place to shop, but a great place to work and connect. Apply today! Position Overview: Maurices – Corporate Internships - Job Description The maurices 2023 Corporate Summer Internships are designed as highly engaging and hands-on opportunities to learn about retail business operations and provide exposure to senior-level leaders. These 10-week, Duluth, MN-based, paid summer internships, are created using maurices blended learning approach, which focuses on the 3 E’s (experience, exposure, and education). In addition, you will gain practice in business etiquette and have an opportunity to utilize your communication, presentation, and time management skills. What you will experience: Hands-on learning with regular, functional touchpoints to understand how business areas partner across the organization. Daily departmental responsibilities as well as participation in meetings with business partners. Classroom training focused on areas of personal development (i.e. leadership, communication, leading through strengths etc). Interaction with all levels of leadership through roundtable discussions and mentoring opportunities. Cross-functional and cross-departmental exposures, plus shadowing is encouraged and facilitated. Project Participation and Presentation to Executives related to a business strategy or process improvement (either group or individual). Involvement in community outreach Where you could be working: INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM: our ‘IPT’ includes Merchandising, Planning & Allocation, Sourcing, Design, Technical Design and Visual Merchandising departments. An internship experience within IPT will help prepare students for a career in any of these product-related functions, offer exposure to all aspects of a product-related career as well as a broad overview of maurices business structure. FINANCE: our highly analytical and results-oriented, Finance Team makes an immediate impact on corporate strategy and direction. Internship opportunities could include areas such as Financial Planning and Analysis, Accounting, Treasury, Real Estate or Legal. DIGITAL & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Committed to applying technology to solve business problems, our IT Team partners across the company, using cutting-edge tools, and create and uphold technology standards and processes. An internship within IT will have you generating and implementing new strategic or systematic approaches and creating dynamic technology solutions for our rapidly growing business. SUPPLY CHAIN: Our Supply Chain team synchronizes supply and demand, while measuring global business performance. Supporting our global logistics network utilizing our brand-new, state-of-the-art Distribution Center, our Supply Chain intern will partner with multiple business areas and with our third-party vendors to efficiently deliver products. HUMAN RESOURCES: The HR team is dedicated to identifying, acquiring, developing, and retaining the talent that makes us maurices. In addition to supporting our associates at the Home Office and in our stores, our team is continually focused on being ‘culture keepers.’ HR Interns will gain exposure to a variety of areas within our multi-faceted Human Resources department including recruiting, support, and HR Business Strategy. Our interns will gain foundational knowledge to ultimately build a long-term career path in Human Resources. What Makes a Good Candidate? Education: Must be a rising junior or senior student (Grad Class 2023 or 2024) (if you are graduating in 2025 or after, we have a separate posting for “Sophomore Summit” and/or you could be eligible for our Field Leadership Internships Experience: Retail experience is preferred. Skills: Excellent academic record, strong communication (both verbal and written), interpersonal and organizational skills are necessary, and must be computer proficient (MS Office Suite). An entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to work independently or collaboratively will be necessary. What else should I expect? These internships are located in our Corporate Headquarters in Duluth, MN. This is a full time (40 hours/week), non-exempt (hourly) internship, and can include a small housing stipend. Other benefits include our associate discount, a parking pass and access to our onsite fitness center. We hope to make decisions about the areas of business that will admit interns for the 2023 Summer by the end of the year, 2022. Please feel free to add your resume to our general internship pool here, and the recruiting team will reach out to qualified candidates at the turn of the new year, if not sooner. You are welcomed to engage with our community on Linkedin, as well as the careers page on maurices.com to learn more about our culture and values. We will also be holding internships for our Field Leadership Opportunities - please watch for more information. At maurices, our value of People First recognizes that each of us bring unique backgrounds, interests and perspectives that contribute to our amazing culture and success. Putting people first means working to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed, valued and respected. We are committed to embracing the uniqueness in each of us, including race, ethnicity, gender, language, sexual orientation, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political convictions, socio-economic status or any other aspect that enables our associates and partners to bring their authentic selves to work and our customers to feel comfortable and welcomed as they shop with us. Location: Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802 Position Type: Intern (Fixed Term) (Trainee)/Full time Equal Employment Opportunity The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.