Apprenticeship Retail Specialist Creating Shopping Experiences Sports Articles (m/f/d)
Transa Backpacking AG
St. Gallen
Key information
- Publication date:23 June 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:St. Gallen
Job summary
Join Transa's team in St. Gallen as a retail professional. Great opportunity awaits!
Tasks
- Advise customers on their outdoor adventures and gear.
- Familiarize yourself with a wide range of outdoor products.
- Help maintain and design the sales area creatively.
Skills
- Interest in outdoor activities; no specific education required.
- Strong communication skills and enthusiasm for adventures.
- Digital proficiency and a positive, open mindset.
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YOUR APPRENTICESHIP AT TRANSA? BUT RIGHT.
Are you interested in being active outdoors and want to know everything about outdoor equipment? Do you enjoy interacting with customers and experiencing adventures?Then we have a suitable apprenticeship for you as Retail Specialist Creating Shopping Experiences Sports Articles (EFZ, with or without vocational maturity) (m/f/d) in St. Gallen starting from August 1, 2026.
YOUR FUTURE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY
You will learn:- to advise our customers in St. Gallen for their adventures
- to get to know our extensive outdoor range (from clothing to mountain sports to shoes) in detail
- to help design and maintain the sales area
- to understand the flow of goods and work on it
- to get to know Transa and gain insights into various areas (such as purchasing, online shop, marketing, sales)
THIS IS YOU
- Being outdoors – on foot, by bike, on skis, or hanging on a rock. That interests you.
- Curious to meet different people and their travel destinations as well as to advise our customers on their adventures. Sounds exciting!
- Open-minded and positive mindset, ready to discover new things. Of course.
- Enthusiastic and sociable. Yes!
- Fit in the digital world. Definitely.
YOUR BENEFITS
- Annual 3-day outdoor adventure camp together with all 20 trainees from Transa
- Contribution of over CHF 500.00 towards your own outdoor equipment
- Half-fare subscription throughout the entire apprenticeship
- Generous employee discounts
- Attractive salary in the 1st year: CHF 820, 2nd year: CHF 1030, 3rd year: CHF 1500
- Competent trainers with many years of training experience
- An exciting and modern training as well as the opportunity to continue working at Transa after the apprenticeship
- The possibility to complete the vocational maturity alongside the apprenticeship if suitable and desired
- A centrally located workplace, 5 minutes on foot from St. Gallen train station
Then we look forward to your online application with your photo (also from your leisure time) and the following documents: CV, last three certificates from secondary school (all pages), and, if available, trial assessments.
#outbutright
THIS IS US
Transa Backpacking AG has been the competence center for high-quality travel and outdoor equipment for over 45 years. The motto «Out. But right.» is lived by around 500 employees. We are organized in circles and use the patterns of Sociocracy 3.0 – this allows employees to be deployed according to their abilities. In the branches of Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Vevey, and Winterthur, the two outlet branches, as well as the station business Yosemite in Zermatt, you will find over 42,000 products from around 550 brands. If products do get damaged, we take care of it in the repair workshop in Zurich Altstetten.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Saskia, trainer at the St. Gallen branch: Tel. 071 220 71 82Or visit us online: www.transa.ch
Please submit your application exclusively via the online link for data protection reasons and not by email.
