Business Development (Sales) Internship

Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Building business relationships with current and potential clients
2. Understanding client needs and offering solutions and support; answering potential client questions and follow-up call questions; responding to client requests for proposals (RFPs)
3. Collaborating with sales and leadership to secure, retain, and grow accounts
4. Creating informative presentations; presenting and delivering information to potential clients at client meetings, industry exhibits, trade shows, and conferences
5. Creating and maintaining a list/database of prospect clients; maintaining a database (Salesforce, CRM, Excel, etc.) of prospective client information
6. Cold calling; making multiple outbound calls to potential clients; closing sales and working with the client through the closing process
7. Meeting all quotas for cold, active, inactive calls, appointments, and interviews; meeting or exceeding annual sales goals
8. Maintaining a pipeline of all sales administration using CRM software
9. Collaborating with management on sales goals, planning, and forecasting; maintaining short- and long-term business development plans

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