Intern

Job Description

Does being exposed to diverse parts of a fortune 250 company operation bring you excitement? Do you need hands on experience to help you figure out what part of a company drives you? If this sounds like it fits you, we would love to hear from you! NAPA Auto Parts, a division of Genuine Parts Company, with company headquarters based in Atlanta, GA operation. In this unique Internship experience, you will be exposed to multiple aspects of our business: Retail Stores, Sales, Operations/Distribution Centers, Wholesale, and Integrated Business Solutions. This is a tremendous leadership-focused learning opportunity to have exposure and truly be immersed into our business.

Responsibilities

• By the end of this internship, you will be able to:
• Understand the workflow of the NAPA operation at the Distribution Center(DC) and Store level
• Apply Leadership skills learned to better operational effectiveness of employees through engagement
• Identify and explain the business needs of the Store, DC and Sales groups
• Exposure to our Integrated Business Solutions division and the power of our partnerships
• The Program:9 week internship (360 hours). This Internship begins early June 2017 and ends early August 2017. 40 hours per week
• Each week different part of the business Retail Stores (3 weeks)
• Sales (1 week)
• Distribution Center Operations (3 weeks)
• Wholesale (1 week)
• IBS (1 week)

What you will learn: Store: How sales goals and inventory needs are determined

• Product placement/location on shelves in rear of store
• Building customer satisfaction during delivery
• Automotive Part Sales/Retail/TAMS
• Merchandising/Planogramming
• Product face-outs and stocking retail
• Greeting and assisting customers
• Loading/unloading delivery
• Pulling product for delivery
• How to look up parts
• Scheduling
• Safety
• Sales: Market development, expose opportunities for brand penetration
• Account development, expose opportunities for increasing product offering to current customers
• Perform sales blitz.
• Attend customer appreciation events
• Distribution Center: Stocking
• Pulling
• Dock
• Inventory
• Classification
• Wholesale: National account relationships
• Perform store change over
• Perform store resets
• Integrated Business Solutions (IBS): Automotive part sales
• Perform external product procurement
• Perform buyout purchase orders
• Reconcile purchase orders
• Maintain obsolete inventory
• Identify future inventory needs through vehicle service interval analysis

We value all of our interns and go the extra mile to make sure you receive a learning experience that fits your career goals. You will become extremely knowledgeable in all of the above aspects of our business, exposure to the NAPA leadership team, along with a structured program and support of a coach. This experience could serve as the building blocks to join the Executive Management Trainee Program after graduation.

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate:

• Currently pursuing a degree in STEM or Business fields 3.25GPA
• Results-oriented, forward-thinking, confident undergraduates and graduates Effective written, verbal and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills Strong research, analytical, problem-solving and decision making capabilities
• Ability to be flexible, multi-task, prioritize, and manage multiple activities simultaneously in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Strong team player with the ability to take initiative and work well independently

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