Networks Sales & Solutions Intern

Ericsson GmbH; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson Inc. is offering a 12-week Networks SSS Intern position in Plano, Texas. The role supports RFx responses, proposals, and customer engagements while learning to translate requirements into services opportunities and commercially sound proposals.

You will gain experience in services business development, scoping, pricing support, and collaboration across sales, services delivery, solution architecture, and customer-facing teams. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in an accredited Bachelor’s or Master’s program in business, engineering, computer science, telecommunications, information technology, economics, finance, operations, project management, or a related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand technical, operational, and commercial information and communicate it clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments.
• Professional curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, seek clarification, and understand the rationale behind recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support RFx responses, tenders, proposals, presentations, customer consultations, workshops, and other services sales activities.
• Review customer requirements and help identify suitable Ericsson services, delivery approaches, and solution components.
• Support the scoping of cognitive network services and network deployment offerings by defining activities, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, resources, timelines, and risks.
• Collaborate with services delivery and solution architecture teams to improve the clarity, completeness, and feasibility of proposed work efforts.
• Support commercial analysis by reviewing cost and pricing inputs, comparing scenarios, evaluating assumptions, and preparing recommendations.
• Help develop statements of work, service descriptions, effort estimates, pricing models, business cases, value propositions, and other proposal content.
• Research telecommunications services, network deployment practices, cognitive network capabilities, industry trends, customer priorities, and competitive offerings.
• Organize and analyze technical, operational, and commercial information to support customer solutions, business cases, and opportunity readiness.
• Create clear customer-facing materials, including scope summaries, presentations, diagrams, tables, and proposal responses.
• Document findings, decisions, action items, risks, and open questions while collaborating with sales, finance, legal, commercial management, Customer Solution Responsible teams, and other Ericsson stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Curiosity / willingness to learn

Team collaboration

Education

Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Ericsson Inc. is offering a 12-week Networks SSS Intern position in Plano, Texas. The role supports RFx responses, proposals, and customer engagements while learning to translate requirements into services opportunities and commercially sound proposals.

You will gain experience in services business development, scoping, pricing support, and collaboration across sales, services delivery, solution architecture, and customer-facing teams. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.