Dual Study Programme - Croatia

Peek & Cloppenburg offers you the chance to combine a business degree with a career in the fashion industry. What are we looking for? You should enjoy fashion and working with people, have a good command of English, be flexible, and possess good communication skills.

Practical Component

The practical experience gives you the possibility to get to know P&C’s core business – sales. From the very first day, you will be fully immersed in the action and get to know all the processes and structures of a Peek&Cloppenburg store.

What you can expect:

• Full-time (40h/week) sales position at P&C with a full-time salary. In addition, you will have extra days off for studying.
• Your duties will include customer service, product presentation, sales promotion and sales analyses.
• You will rotate through various departments and gain practical experiences, from decoration to administration and goods handling, thereby getting to know all aspects of the business.
• You will have seminars and career events throughout the programme.
• Step by step, you will be prepared for your sales career in fashion retail.

University Component

Our partner university is the SRH Distance Learning University – The Mobile University.

What you can expect:

• Bachelor Programme in Business Management (B.A.) developed specifically for Peek & Cloppenburg (See curriculum).
• The University is 100 % Online. This includes lectures, exams and all activities concerning the university.
• The study language is English. A level of B1 in English is a prerequisite.
• Experienced lecturer from the business world will teach you up-to-date, job specific and business-related knowledge and skills.

Upon successful completion of your studies, you will have the opportunity to advance your career and become a department manager and take on responsibility for staff and sales. Afterwards, you can work your way up to General Sales Manager. 
If you show outstanding performance and meet certain criteria, such as a willingness to learn German and the flexibility to relocate, you could also be promoted to Merchandise Controller.

What does a Department Manager in Sales do?
As a department manager, you are responsible for the turnover of the sales area entrusted to you, and thus also for analysing the sales figures in order to determine how to improve your turnover. You will also take on personnel responsibility and lead, but above all motivate your sales team. In addition, you will also help to train P&C's own junior staff. Other duties include ensuring that our customers receive service-oriented advice, maintaining close contact with our purchasing department to coordinate the product range, as well as strategy and system-based control/analysis of the product range, and the management of your sales floor.