AT&T Retail Leadership Development Program Job Details

The Retail Leadership Development Program

Apply for AT&T’s Retail Leadership Development Program and connect to your future! The program begins with six-month training program based in Atlanta that puts college graduates with outstanding potential on a fast track to retail sales management and future leadership opportunities throughout AT&T. It’s your first step to building an exciting, continually progressing career.

This program offers you a chance to put your potential to work in a company that has a strong culture of opportunity and growth. As the one of the largest communications company in the United States and the world and a leading provider of wireless services in the U.S., AT&T offers innovative communications products and services and the newest technologies to our customers each and every day. On top of that, AT&T provides a challenging and exciting workplace for employees.

Our Retail Strategy: AT&T Experience Stores

AT&T’s retail strategy is about more than our wireless products and services. Our stores reflect our commitment to seamlessly converge wireless and wireline service and give customers a convenient, streamlined, hands-on approach to experiencing and selecting the AT&T products and services that keep them connected at home and on the go. In our ever-expanding network of AT&T Experience Stores, the company’s extensive portfolio of products is presented in a highly interactive retail setting. Customers can access the best in all categories of telecommunications and entertainment products all in one place and explore all the possibilities they provide. Experiences “stations” within the stores include Entertainment, Home Connections, Music, Gaming, Messaging and Video, Laptop Mobility and much more. It’s all under one roof in an engaging, personalized, fun setting where customers can try and “play” -- assisted by top-notch retail professionals.

Program Structure

The Retail Leadership Development Program builds leadership skills through an intensive customized curriculum focused on leadership, coaching, and development, while exposing participants to the many aspects of AT&T's Company Owned Retail stores and other functional groups.

Classroom training combined with real-life assignments that include onsite and in-store rotations provide the opportunity to learn from the company leaders and retail experts. Participants develop supportive, professional relationships that will last long after the program is completed. Future career paths include marketing, sales operations, customer service management and retail sales.

Core components of the program which is conducted in Atlanta at AT&T’s wireless division headquarters, include:

• Intensive 6-month focus on developing leadership, management and coaching skills
• Classroom training and practical, hands-on assignments – both individual and team-oriented
• On-site, in-store rotations interacting and learning from our very best retail experts

Summary of Program Benefits

The Retail Leadership Development Program is not an internship, but a full-time, paid employment opportunity that provides exceptional candidates with first-class training and leadership development that are the first step to a rewarding career at AT&T.

• Competitive compensation from day one
• Career path beginning with retail store management with opportunities for growth into other leadership roles
• Future career possibilities throughout AT&T – a multi-faceted, international company
• Exposure to high level senior executives
• 6 months of specialized, paid training in our premier facility in Atlanta, GA
• Hands on experience working in a store environment before you graduate
• Long-term support – even after your training is complete
• Medical, dental and vision insurance, 401K and more!

Program Requirements

Is this you?

Successful graduates of the program possess:

• Demonstrated leadership abilities
• A passion for sales, service and people
• High integrity and strong character
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communications skills – written and verbal
• Energy and enthusiasm to achieve exceptional results
• Champions change and enjoy learning new things
• Ability to be flexible and resilient as business needs change
• Strong business acumen and the aptitude to problem solve
• A positive mental attitude
• Undergraduate degree emphasizing Business, Retail Management or Marketing
• U.S. citizen or permanent resident status
• Willingness to relocate to Atlanta, GA for the duration of program and travel to markets as needed
• Willingness to relocate anywhere within AT&T’s U.S. coverage area upon completion of program based upon current business needs

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3.0 or higher GPA
• Prior experience working in retail environment or customer service

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