Sales Intern
Sales Intern
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Are you a college student looking for flexible hours this fall Great River Learning is seeking a fall intern to start end of August who want to learn about product development from start to finish and who are interested in pursuing an outside sales position after graduation. In this internship you will receive sales training and implement basic sales calls. Imagine the fun and excitement of being an investor on Shark Tank. Our sales process is to interview college professors listen for business potential and persuade select candidates to work with our company. Wouldnt that be a fun way to acquire new business! At Great River Learning (GRL) youre in the drivers seat. You work with different colleges and universities in your territory to identify business opportunities interview professors and persuade author candidates that have what it takes to become GRL authors. Occasionally youll need to beat-out other sharks swimming in the same water. We want to partner with talented educators in charge of lower-level higher-enrollment courses to develop more interactive and engaging materials. Also if the publication we develop works well locally we have the experience and resources to market it nationally. This position is located in the home office in Dubuque IA.
In A Typical Work Week as a Sales Intern You Will...
- Work directly with a Regional Director to plan your week.
- Send emails and make phone calls to schedule meetings.
- Assist with meetings and interviews identify business opportunities and recruit select college professors to become GRL authors.
- Follow-up with prospective and existing authors. This includes keeping notes and next steps in our CRM software for all prospective in-development and existing publications.
Characteristics of Who GRL Looks For in Sales Interns You are...
- Someone interested in learning more about a career in sales.
- A top performer thats used to going above and beyond the minimum expectations.
- Competitive highly organized and self-driven.
- Someone who sees time as a resource that shouldnt be wasted. You take advantage of time between appointments!
- Someone who possesses enough leadership motivation and purpose to hold yourself accountable.
- Positive and have a can do attitude towards life.
Who We Are
Great River Learning (GRL) is an established higher education company that focuses on developing engaging publications by integrating videos animations and interactive exercises. We see enormous business opportunity because we know most students dont read traditional 900-page theyre cramming for a test. We develop next-generation textbooks that are well designed interactive and media-rich. Our employees are driven and passionate about excelling learning having fun and making the world a better place by helping to improve the experience of both college-level students and professors. Learn more by visiting us at .
Its More Than Just an Internship!
Come work for our family of companies that strives to be more than just a publishing company. We build more than a community here we build a family with our employees and our clients. We will work around your class schedule and extracurricular activities. Our scheduling and managers are flexible with you. Plus we pay our interns! So come learn about how you can grow from an intern to a potential full time hire after graduation.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
