Dick's Sporting Goods Internships

My summer experience at DICK’S Sporting Goods in Pittsburgh, PA was nothing short of fantastic. I “belonged” to the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team, but I was exposed to and worked with executives from all over the company. At a high level, my project was to develop and recommend a “Seasonal Plan” for DICK’S customer-facing communication. In other words, define an approach to better organize and integrate all of the functions’ (merchandising, marketing, HR, etc.) calendars and planning efforts in order to ensure a more consistent, effective message to the customer.

Going into the summer, my goal was to experience “marketing” first hand. My manager was fantastic and supported me in my efforts to explore marketing as well as other functions within the company. She said repeatedly “I want this summer to be a success for you and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it that way” and she certainly did just that. Not only did I sit-in on several different marketing production and planning meetings, but I also met one-on-one with 35+ employees as part of my project. This provided me with insight into life at the company.

The MBA internship program is small but growing. While there were only 2 of us, there were 20+ undergrad interns (including some from Wharton). We participated in several of their events, including golfing, yoga, bowling, and pub crawls. Not surprisingly, we were also given lots of free “swag”, enjoyed the Corporate Discount on merchandise in the stores, and even went to 2 Pirates (baseball) games and a Steelers (football) game in the DICK’S Luxury Box. I think, though, the highlight of my summer was flying in the private corporate jet with the CEO and 7 Executives to Dallas and Cincinnati to walk-through several DICK’S Stores, as well as check out the regional sporting retailer competition.

Everyone on the DICK’S Team, from the HR Recruiting Lead to the CEO, went out of their way to make sure we enjoyed and learned from the summer. I would highly recommend the experience to anyone interested in retail or Sports Business.

None. I thought Pittsburgh was going to be a fairly uninteresting city, but I loved it.

Go after this. They are growing like crazy.

At Dick's I worked in the buying department of Kids Athletic Apparel. It was very cool to see the buying process and the analytics that goes on behind the scenes of the merchandising. The internship program is well organized ad there are cool events like going to a baseball game and Q&A with Dick's business leaders. I loved the summer and the chance to learn was unbelievable.

None, you really get to see and do a ton.

When you're at Dick's Sporting Goods do a great job during your internship and get to know the hiring managers. The internship program feeds directing into their entry level program.

- Learned all type of computer programs for merchandising.
- I worked with Women's apparel group at Dick's Sporting Goods.
- University Relations team does a great job allowing interns to learn the business and meet company leaders.
- Lunch with CEO and learned vision for Dick's.
- Pirates game in the executive suite with free food.

no cons.

You can tell that Dick's invests a lot of time and resources into this program - they also do a good job placing good interns into fulltime roles.

- Incredible intern projects and real responsibility. I did no coffee or other mindless work.
- Dick's breaks up interns into groups and at the end of the summer, we were able to present
- Able to meet the CEO and other VPs.
- Pirates baseball game.
- Help with housing.
- Seminars and training.
- Learned a ton about the buying process.

I was worried about moving to Pittsburgh for the summer (and possibly after graduation) - but, I ended up enjoying the city and most interns weren't from Pittsburgh, so you don't feel like you're left out.

- This is a top internship program.
- Dick's has a rotational entry level program that is very, very good.
- Great place for sports fan and business nerd (me).

I had a great time at Dick's Sporting Goods over the summer. Work in the tax group was interesting, hr team did a great job with the program, cool events, and smart driven people. Overall, I really enjoyed the experience.

I'm more into finance/strategy than straight forward accounting work.

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