Sales Development Intern

Design-Ready-Controls; Brooklyn Park (MN); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Earned sick and safe time

Job summary

Design Ready Controls is seeking an intern to drive new market generated leads and coordinate with the sales and account management teams. The role focuses on market research, contact activities, and analyzing outreach to identify growth opportunities.

You will gain hands-on experience across customer selection, supplier management, inventory, and sales engineering while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Highly motivated and self-driven.
• Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Excellent time management and ability to multi-task.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Detail oriented with ability to manage projects.

Responsibilities

• Execute market research in new markets and track volume, complexity and price sensitivity.
• Provide strong communication with internal and external stakeholders through calls, emails, meetings and presentations.
• Record and evaluate outreach, activity and industry insights; provide weekly updates to leadership on outreach and engagement.
• Develop and implement a process with sales and marketing leadership to transition all marketing qualified leads to sales in an efficient way.

Skills

Self-motivated

Cross-functional

Problem solving

Excellent communication

Time management

MS Office

Detail oriented

Project management

Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The core of this position is to execute strategies that drive new market generated leads for Design Ready Controls and successfully transition to the sales & account management team.

Identify: Market Research

Conduct extensive market research within new markets while tracking - volume, complexity and price sensitivity. This involves tracking of industry developments and strategies, as well as identifying purchase patterns and emerging trends.

Contact: Communication

Provide strong communication and follow-up to establish and maintain highly engaged relationships both internally and externally. Communication and activities can include phone calls, emails, meetings + presentations, events/tradeshows etc.

Qualify: Analysis & Reports

Record and evaluate outreach, activity and key industry insight gathered to understand the impact and areas of opportunity for business growth. Conduct weekly updates and summaries to sales and marketing leadership, specifically on outreach, engagement and key highlights.

Introduce: Transition

Develop and implement a process with sales and marketing leadership that successfully transition all marketing qualified leads in an efficient and effective method.

In addition to all the above, this internship will provide the successful candidate with strong cross-functional education and experience in:

• Customer selection, qualification, and management
• Supplier management, inventory management, and supply chain rationalization
• Business finance management
• An overview of sales engineering & technical advisory sales

QUALIFICATIONS

• Highly motivated and self-driven
• Collaborates effectively with others in a cross-functional team
• Identifies and resolves problems and communicates effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work
• Proficient in Microsoft, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Detailed oriented
• Project management experience

Compensation: $22.00 p/h

Benefits: Earned sick and safe time

Disclaimer:

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the position and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with the position. The position will also assume any other additional responsibilities as assigned by the manager. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Design Ready Controls is an equal opportunity employer.

Design Ready Controls is committed to providing competitive total compensation and benefits packages. This listed range is based upon a full-time schedule. This is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. Base salaries are determined by taking a variety of factors in account, including, but not limited to, candidate qualifications, education, geographic locations, market conditions and internal equity.