Sales Intern

Southwestern Advantage; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Professional coaching

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

A leading educational sales company is seeking motivated college students for a paid Summer Internship in Minneapolis. This role focuses on consultative sales, allowing interns to build relationships with families while developing essential business skills. Interns will receive over 150 hours of training and have the opportunity to advance into leadership roles. The internship lasts 12-14 weeks through the summer months and offers professional coaching on sales, marketing, and leadership with no upfront costs involved.

Qualifications

• Must be a college student, grad student or recent college grad.
• Goal oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Willingness to learn and develop business skills.
• Teachable and coachable with a coachable mindset.

Responsibilities

• Engage in consultative sales by approaching families in person during the summer.
• Communicate with 1,500 to 4,000 families from all economic backgrounds.
• Create relationships and build rapport with customers.
• Direct sales of educational products and a leadership program.
• Execute ordering, inventory, sales, accounting, scheduling, and delivery.

Skills

Goal Oriented

Strong work ethic

Teachable and coachable

Willingness to learn

Education

College student or recent graduate

Job description

Since 1855, Southwestern Family of Companies has invested in purpose-driven people who are inspired to build principle-guided businesses that impact the world. A growing, international, employee-owned company, we invest in building people and inspiring them to achieve their goals in life. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Southwestern Family of Companies has employees across the country and around the globe.

Role of a Summer Intern

Southwestern Advantage has been offering sales, entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development opportunities to students for 157 years. We are committed to providing a transformative experience that equips young people with essential life skills. Our summer sales internship program has empowered more than 150,000 college students from over 1,600 campuses worldwide to achieve their goals in life.

Southwestern Advantage is seeking college students from all majors for a paid summer work/internship position. This is an outside sales internship where students will learn how to run their own business and be effective in creating relationships with consumers. Students will have the opportunity to travel to another state. You will receive 150+ hours of professional sales, business, leadership, marketing, and soft skill development coaching. The program typically lasts 12-14 weeks during the summer (mid May-mid August). There is no upfront cost to start your business with Southwestern and all training is provided at no cost. This is a paid internship. To inquire more about how much students make, after application a leader will reach out to help you get more specific info.

Following successful completion of the program, interns have the opportunity to move into a leadership role and further grow their career with Southwestern Advantage and our 17+ other sister companies! They can earn job interviews in our Family of Companies (https://southwestern.com/) after graduation! And can also work with our executive search firm to connect with our living alumni network of over 100,000 people to potentially land interviews and jobs.

Notable Alumni:

Mike Johnson - Current speaker of the house

Chip Gaines - Fixer Upper TV Show on HGTV Network

Marsha Blackburn - Senator of Tennessee

Kevin Stitt - Governor of Oklahoma

https://www.southwesternadvantageforce.com/wordsfromalumni

Responsibilities

• Students will be engaged in consultative sales, approaching and talking to families in person during the summer
• Communicating with anywhere with 1,500 to 4,000 families with all economic backgrounds
• Create relationships and build rapport with customers
• Direct sales of educational products and a leadership program
• Students will execute all ordering, inventory, sales, accounting, scheduling, and delivery of product

Qualifications

• Must be a college student, grad student or recent college grad
• Goal Oriented
• Strong work ethic
• Teachable and coachable
• Willingness to learn and develop business skills