I am currently working at Zalando SE as an Account Manager in the Marketing department. My responsibilities include leading my team in all administrative and strategic tasks, which fits well as my elective at university was strategic management and I wrote my thesis on a marketing case.
Since I’m managing multiple clients simultaneously, everyday looks a little different, but most of the time I’m creating strategies, jumping on calls, and exploring tips on how to make my client’s time at Zalando more profitable.
There are a lot of tight deadlines for campaigns, especially around the holidays and this is always a tough challenge. By delegating tasks and being organized well in advance, we as a team overcome these stressful situations.
A lot of the Human Resources content in the courses proved to be really helpful and I’ve been benefiting greatly from the communication and change management skills we learnt. The research I did for my thesis also has given me a strong backbone into the work I’m now doing.
I’m currently very happy in my current role but always looking to grow my team. Working on many internal projects and additionally consulting on a couple of external projects to help brand new start-ups.
Try to gage the aspects of your course that you find most interesting and hopefully see yourself potentially working on in the future. Getting a full overview of the entire studies is important but take the time at university to figure out what you want to focus on and a field/ career you want to pursue once you’re done with your studies.
